kmacc05

Was just looking at the tank and doing some cleaning and maintenance when I noticed a couple things I haven't seen before. If anyone has an idea what these are and if they are bad or not, that would be awesome!

I tried looking these up to see if they might possibly be eggs from copepods, but all images I got on google were from under microscopes and looked nothing like these. They are in my fuge, which is HOB and I recently added a bottle of tiger pods to it and have noticed them swimming around in there, but now there are these things and a lot of them too...

Then I noticed these spiral shaped things stuck to the glass all over more towards the back corners. Looks kind of like a snail of some sort but seems to be flat against the glass. In the pic I can make out what looks to be some sort of animal looking part coming out of the end...

yeah free is always nice! I don't have a sub to any kind of mag yet so this was a nice find for me. Not sure which mags to start looking at. Anyone have any suggestions?

I was just browsing through Reddit on a few of the aquarium threads there and someone posted this link to an aquarium magazine that is in PDF form and available for free download. I didn't know if anyone here had heard of it, so I figured I would share the find with you all. It looks like they cover fresh and saltwater. Pretty neat I thought. http://www.redfishmagazine.com.au/editions

How do these worms get into the tank? I have only seen two brittle stars and a few pods in mine

hmmm odd. I'm going to start taking pics over the next few weeks to see if i can see which ones are actually doing it

They are looking healthy and reproducing for sure. I just find it odd that the complete heads would change colors off and on. What if I were to get some really high end ones, would they have a chance at completely changing?

Is it normal for zoas to change color?

I have some what I think are watermelon zoas and since I've had them some have turned green kind of like what radioactive dragon eye zoas look like. I have also noticed week to week, that the number of green versus the number of watermelon ones will change. I don't know if this is from new ones growing or from them changing color over and over. The colony hasn't seemed to be growing that fast (although I have noticed growth) to have such a sudden change in color. I will try and take a few pics of certain heads throughout a few weeks to try and document what I'm noticing. But has anyone else noticed this type of thing happen with zoas? I'm not 100% sure it's happening, but the ratio does seem to be changing.

Thanks, that one came out pretty sharp

So I got the cloudy water under control and everything is doing great. So I decided to take some update photos for progress. Let me know how it looks! Posting here because photo section doesn't seem to get much traffic. Move thread if need be...

Birdsnest

Acro

Hot Pink paly/Armageddons

Fungia (from Ty)

Monti (from Ban)

Mohawk (from Ban)

Firefish decided not to be shy for once

Torch

I have heard of tangs getting curious and tasting lps before, but not ripping them apart like that. Hopefully he likes the new food and forgets about the frogspawn. Goodluck

So as of this morning, the cloudiness is gone! Crystal clear water again. Everything looks fine and stress free. I'm thankful I escaped my first bone head move without damaging anything. So here are some pics I snapped soon after the lights came on this morning and all the fish were waking up... Tell me what yall think. Oh, and thanks to everyone for all the suggestions and helping me learn once more!

new acro I just picked up

FTS

No white dust aside from what i always have from my goby moving sand around

Yeah, from here on out, the tank will get only scheduled photo period and nothing more. All i was trying to do was show our guests what i have been working so hard on. Lesson learned

Just did all tests i have. Facepalm, spilled half of the titration from calcium test!!

Nitrite 0

Po4 0

Dkh 7.5-8 same as before cloud

Calcium ~400 calcium before cloud was 450

Also have noticed even more progress on it clearing up since dinner. Hopefully tomorrow it will be back to normal.

kmacc05 (OP), have you taken a measurement of magnesium? If your alkalinity and calcium are high but magnesium is low, that leads to abiotic precipitation (snow storm) which could lead to a big drop in alkalinity and calcium and damage the health of your stuff. If you're near RCA, they'll test your water for alkalinity and calcium for free, but they don't test magnesium.

i tested alk and calcium the other day and it was good. Dont have mag test kit. After coming home from work it looks much better. Still a little cloudy but nowhere near sunday. So im guessing its ok. Steve at AT seemed to think it was caused by one of the corals not liking the extended photo period. But he said if everything looked fine and not stressed, dont worry about it. Just to keep an eye on it

Sounds interesting. I'm going to look online to see if I can find any info on this. Would this be considered a good thing? I guess it would lead to more growth and spread right? If that is what's happening...

oh ok. Yeah only chaeto in the fuge. No other macro in the tank

I have no idea...? I have chaeto in the fuge but it's light was off during the whole time.

I hope not. I'll check. But I haven't noticed any stress what so ever from anything in the tank. And I know ammonia will mess with them bad.

hmmm ok. The coral and fish seem to be fine so I won't worry about it. It isn't green in color, it is a milky white. It's also cleared up a little since last night. So hopefully it's on it's way out. I hope no one dropped/spilled anything in it during the party. I was able to keep an eye on it most of the time, but there were still parts of the night when I couldn't supervise the tank.

No one was allowed near any food. It is all stored in the freezer or in the cabinet of the stand. The tank has been running very well just around two months. I remember dealing with cloudy water when the tank was cycling due to bacterial bloom but this is different. It is white/milky similar to the bacterial bloom, but not near as bad. Camera is dead so I can't take a picture.

Now that I am thinking of it, I did feed that evening before everyone came over and included some coral frenzy in with it for the newly added birdsnest. Could that have been a little too much food at once and caused the cloudy water?

So on Sat. we had some friends over for a night of beer pong and I wanted my tank to remain lit up since

none of the people showed up before 11 pm. So I changed the setting on the SOL from only 4% RB moon lights, to a combo of 20-45% on all three colors. Got a lot of great compliments on the tank which was awesome. I left the lights on until 4 am or so. Got up yesterday and the water is cloudy. None of the corals look like it had a bad affect so I'm hoping everything is ok. I did a 10 gallon WC hoping that would help. Last night before going to bed, it was still just as cloudy like the WC had done nothing. This morning, it looked better but was still a little on the cloudy side.

Should I just wait it out and never increase the lighting schedule again?? I feel dumb for doing it. But I wanted to show off the tank. Also, is the reason the water is cloudy due to the increased lighting period?

Oh ok. Tank is looking good. Looking forward to seeing the progress!

Filter feeding is just how they eat.... Does that have any benefit for the tank?