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11/18/2012, 07:42 AM
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Location: Sweden
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Id help please!
Hi!
I'm a newbie to this hobby and I'll need help to identify what's living in my tank. I've got this along with the live rock. I'll hope someone can help me. Sorry for the bad quality of the photo, it's been taken with my mobilephone. |
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11/18/2012, 07:57 AM
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Reef Monster
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Location: Long Island
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Looks like a sponge
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11/18/2012, 08:43 PM
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can you post a better photo?
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11/18/2012, 08:45 PM
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Dr. Reef at ur service
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yup a better pic will do more justice and dont use flash, looks like a sponge.
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Water Quality: NO3 0,Phos 0,Cal 440,Alk 7.5,Mag 1300 "Reef Fast, You Crash, Reef Slow, You Pass" Mike's Reef 3:16 Current Tank Info: 350g DT,95g sump, 50g Frag tank, 4800gph return 4x Sea swirls. 6x AI Vega Color. 200# Pukani rock, dual recirculating skimmer, Biopellet, GFO Carbon rx's, Cal rx. Closed loop. 1.5hp chiller, genesis renew. Apex & RKE |
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11/24/2012, 05:57 AM
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Hope this is a better picture. If it's a sponge, good or bad? Should I get rid off it?
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11/24/2012, 10:54 AM
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Moved On
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11/24/2012, 12:23 PM
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Location: Fort Worth, TX USA
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It's sponge, leave it.
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11/24/2012, 12:26 PM
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Location: Long Island,New York
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looks like its a sponge
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Experience is the product of mistakes Its better to have lost one fish in quarantine than all the fish in the display tank! reef tanks are my heroin and I am a junkie. Current Tank Info: 480 gallon system 180 display tank recently reset,plumbed to a 110 fuge and another 110 display 2 30 gallon resorvoirs and sump. reseach room presenlty with 6 20 gal 6 29 gal 1 50 gal, tank and growing , culturing micro algae,copepods,rotifers |
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11/28/2012, 01:24 AM
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Ok, thanks everybody.
Now another question. I´ve some brown algaes starting to grow on my bottom substrate. I use Red seas No3-Po4x and my nitrate is 5-10ppm and my phosphate is 0, and the lightning is on for nine hours. What can I do to get rid of it? I´ve got a couple of turbos in my tank, get more of them? Any other animal that likes to eat algaes? |
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11/28/2012, 02:04 AM
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I understand your tank is rather new, then you've started on the chemicals really early and I'm not sure that's best for your tank. As for brown algae it is normal to go through different algae stages while the tank establishes. What water source are you using and what kind of bioload do you have?
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11/28/2012, 04:41 AM
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I only use RO tapwater and my bioload is two Bangai cardinals and two Amphiprion ocellaris and three turbos
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11/28/2012, 06:58 AM
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You need RO/DI. You will still be putting phosphates into the tank with just RO water.
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