Recent content by Brother Silas

Hello folks Just wondering if anyone could help identify a couple things here. I have small white spots all over the place that I thought were calcium deposits at first; but then noticed that they also have hair sprouting from them. A form of algae, perhaps? Also, is the red algae on the...

Hi again nano friends. You may have noticed some pics I posted of the progress my tank has made since I last visited. I'm pretty happy with how things are going. I first added four blue legged crabs soon after my first post, they seemed somewhat overwhelmed by the task at hand, but seemed...

algae in retreat

My algae before adding a cleaning crew

Thanks- I found a nice selection at Fosters and Smith as well. http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/Shop.cfm?N=2004 I'll let you all know what happens here in a little while. Should be interesting.

Thanks to all for the advice. I hear chemi-clean can help with the phosphate problem, so I'll get some of that and shorten my light cycle for now until I get a new filter and R/O setup. I had read on nano-reef that widening the opening to chamber two was generally a good thing to do...

Temp- 79.1 deg F pH- 8.3ish Nitrite- 0ppm Nitrate- 0ppm Ammonia- 0ppm SG- 1.022+ I'm using a kit from Aquarium Pharmaceuticals who sound as if they can be trusted with chemicals- but what do I know. Based on my limited knowledge, I haven't cycled yet. Or maybe I missed it and am doing...

Hair algae- that makes sense, I guess. Nothing fancy in my cycle- added the water, then live sand and base rock, then live rock. First water change was last week. I have been using filtered tap water and Oceanic salt mix. (R/O will come later. gotta give the credit card a break) Here's...

Hello, all Been lurking a while and have translated the collected knowledge into a new BC 29 setup. Apparently my existing hobbies weren't taking enough cash out of my pocket. :) I've been up and running about two weeks now with the live rock. I have yet to see an ammonia spike(unless it...