The 75gal reef tank cycle has started!!!!!!!

Ok Here's what happened.

I miss wrote the Nitrite reading. It was not 0.5 It was 0.05. I just did a 10gal water chang because that it all I have for salt here and It is at about 0.03 now. I new it wasn't 0.5 but I just typed it wrong. Now 0.05 should be ok right?
 
No you didn't. I read .05 on the post above. That is why I didn't think it was that big of deal. If it were .5 then ya, that is something serious, but at .05 and just recently added new things, it sounds normal to me.
 
Ok cool. The reason I guess I was asking was that we got this snail from Ashlee's tank and it not moving around at all. I just was checking if you guys thought that if it was any of the tanks readings. We put the snail in a glass jar to get it here and these snails stick like crazy. If you try and pull them off it feels like you are going to rip the snail out of it shell. We stock the whole jar in the tank to let him just crawl out but he has stooped on the jar and wont move. I was thinking that it might be just getting use to the water or something and will start moving after it dose. Is there anything that might effect snails that wont effect cabs or shrimp?
 
Here is a picture of the snail. Ashlee looked it up and it said they are Reef Safe. can't remember what the name was.

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That looks like a limpet but maybe it is the angle? Personally Sean I'd ease up on adding clean up crew that your tank doesn't have food for. Having to feed the clean up crew on a regular basis kind of defeats their purpose.
 
Yeah I know you are right. The new snail was just because he had come off the rocks and they were able to get him out of her tank. I think we are done for now. The next things we get will be fish to put in the QT. To tell you the truth I don't know if there is enough or not. I just figured a little food wouldn't hurt.
 
One more pic.

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Another great pic. :) Looks like your feather doesn't mind the shrimp. My skunk shrimp would jump on my feather all the time forcing it to close up. That is a GIANT shrimp compared to the sexy's though.

You know.. thinking more about it.. how long to Feathers live? Maybe mine just died of old age (1 year tops). I still think it was due to constant pestering by the fish.. but I am wondering now. Actually, just googled the answer.. so that was it.

Life Span Up to 1+ years with proper care
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Wow I didn't know that. I would have thought they would live longer then that. Do they multiply? Do you need more then one for that to happen?
 
I really have no idea how they multiply. I don't think putting 2 next to each other will make it happen though. I don't know why they only live a year.

Here you go:
Feather duster worms reproduce both sexually and asexually. Sexual reproduction involves the release of gametes into the water where the fertilized eggs develop into free-swimming larvae that eventually settle in an appropriate habitat. In the case of Serpulids, they settle on corals and the coral grows around the calcareous tube they build, making asexual reproduction nearly an impossibility for them. Soft tube varieties reproduce sexually, but many form dense colonies of clones by a budding process called scissipary. In this process the posterior end of the worm breaks off and develops a new crown while the "parent" grows a new posterior.
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I am now wondering if that holds true for Coco worms as well. I hope not because those are really pricey, but really cool looking. My neighbor bought one for $50 when he first setup his tank and it only lived about a year, but I chalked that up to his terrible maint on the tank.
 
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