chatfouz

flatworms are not bad, just kinda ugly(in some peoples eyes)

i dont know if this would work but what if you tried controlling it like you do aptiasia? take a siringe and inject it with an acid... like lemon juice? a drop in a lot of stalks i bet would kill the colony. then it would be only a slight decay factor in the way of ammonia etc. i doubt the ph of your tank would flux from a few injectiosn of lemonade.

Wish I could help. I have the exact reverse problem. Xenia won't grow at all in my tank. I have one lonely little stalk that seems to just hang on ... and it has been that way for almost a year! Everything else (zoa's lps corals, leather coral) have been growing very nicely.

Now my green star polyps on the other hand .... I have the same problem with that as you do with your Xenia.

i had the same problem. xenia just disolved in my tank. i have been told xenia does not do salinity flux at all. but i dont think purposly fluxing your salinity levels for a week is the best idea as that may hurt the other corals...

Kent Pro long handled scraper with replaceable blade. Handle lengths up to 36" available. Works great.

i believe even at the local chain petstore are long handelded blade cleaners. i think only 24" tho.

b

I have the magnets and the long handled razor blade, but I'm looking for something better. I've decided to leave the back glass for the snails and urchin, but I want the front and sides clean, free of algae and coraline. What's the best scraper/cleaner, how much does it cost, and where do you get it?

its not working well?

what is growin on the front that you cant control

or you jsut askign if there is a better product out there?

add a towel. drape a large towel or two over the tank. black out all the light.

Howdy all!

I added ~40lbs of Pavestone Pulverized Limestone to my tank on Friday and the sand storm

is driving my nuts. The only way it settles is with all the pumps off, including the skimmer(in tank Tunze 9010).

Today I added a MJ1200 with a bag stuffed full of floss in an attempt to pull it out but anytime

the sand gets disturbed it puffs up a cloud.

Is this ever going to settle down and not cloud the water?

Thanks in advance!

Robb

yes it will settle. i suggest puragin. its a wonderful product. add small bag (8$) from petsmart to your filter system. it will pick up the small fine particles that is making that cloudy water. make that stuff fly up and into the filter system and let puragin pull it out. you can also addd panty hose, great fine filter. put a few inches over each power head, so the water is blown through the pantyhose. rubber bands should hold it.

the stuff will only be removed if you filter it out. turn everything on and let it run. really a week with puragin and you should be set. i know i endorse puragin all the time but that is because it is a miracle product. good luck.

in the future you can cure limestone in a bucket that is acidic, it should help dislodge\disolve the dust. good luck.

Hello group.

After delaying my move, it's finally happening and I need some help moving my 60 aquarium.

I have 4 5 gallon jugs and probably need several more.

If anyone has buckets with lids that would be great too.

Please let me know if you can help.

I plan to move this coming weekend Feb 2nd and 3rd. I'll keep the tank moving date and time flexible to accommodate your schedules.

Thanks!

i have at least 5-8 5gal buckets with lids. pm me. if you want physical help to i'd be happy to spend a few hours to help

Michael

The driftwood will lower it some, I don't see much difference pH wise between my tanks with and without.

Unless you are breeding discus or someother black/super soft water species I think it is better to just keep

them in stable parameters vs some ideal numbers.

Check on the Hill Country Cichlid Club site: hillcountrycichlidclub.com

Robb

i thought discus was one of those black water soft species that did need the low parameters. or is that just with those who want to breed them? i just want to them to swim around and not die.

Can I put inside my filter sock?

if its after your corse mechanical filtration. you want the mechanical filtration to get finner as it travels through the filter, not corser. water to hit the corser filter sock then panty hose then the rest of yoru filtration. bio or chem.

if you use puragin sock-pantyhose-puragin

anyone have suggestions on how to deal with ph and hardness in freshwater?

i need to lower the ph to 6

and greatly lower the hardness

if i remember correctly driftwood helps lower ph

avoid reef sand for hardness

anyone recommend chemicals to deal with the rest?

or are there other "objects" that can be put in a tank to help regulate the ph and hardness?

are there rocks that lower hardness? i know limestone etc raise it...

or is the only option really jsut to buy water?

puragin is a synthetic bead. you can buy it at places like petsmart for 10$. its a bag of little white beads. it works like that blue filter floss on your filtration system except it picks up super super fine particles. the stuff it pics up contributes to the accumlation of detritus. if you decide to use it put in your filtration system like you would carbon or other media. make water pass through it and it will super filter your water.

panty hose is another just simple cheap cheap filter media. the pores are so fine that it helps at collecting stuff out of the water colum before it settles down on the surface of your rocks etc increasing your detritus problem. the easiest way to use it is to take some and rubber band it on the output tubes in the tank. you will see that in a day or two it will be all sorts of nasty colors. that is just nastyness that has collected on the pantyhose. change it ever so often so that your flow is not hurt.

that has always worked for me for never having detritus.

I too suffer from this problem (since Thanksgiving). I have 4 socks I change out every other day. I just can't get rid of the stuff. I can see it suspended in the water column. I have a sponge and a carbon filled bag in the bubble trap right before the section my skimmer is going in. Will Purigen really help?

Sorry Semper. . .

Dave-

puragin is a miracle product. it is crazy awsome. you can pick it up from petsmart etc. i think it is the best product that seachem makes and probably the best 15$ that can be spent in the hobby. you can clean it, reuse it. it pics up soo much stuff that you didnt even know that was there.

Is there a coating out there that one can apply to plexiglass or glass that prevents or inhibits condensation?

the closest thing i have heard of was on the X1 the plane chuck yeager used, he had a problem with condensation on the windshield freezaing. he used a thin layer of soap and the water oil thing happened. but i dont know if that is the best idea for aquariums

just so i could learn somthin... what is ORP?

purigen is gods gift for this mess. put a bag of it in your filtration system. even if its a HOB aquaclear. get water passing through it and in about a week it will be black with the stuff it picked up. panty hose also works as a good fine filter. cut off a foot piece and wrap around all the outputs or whatnot and change every few days it will make a world of differene. (works well as bio media)

looks too thin to keep stuff happy. it looks baraly wide enough for fish to turn around

bubble algee is also known as sausage algea. it looks a little sausagey..

yes. conch eat snails as a big part of diet. why if you see oone eating in the ocean watch and you will sea an army of hermit crabs behind it trying just to fight over the shells that come out. tough realestate market.

DISCUS!! im setting up a discus tank for my aunt. Very intersted!

man that makes me want to kick out my room mate and start a tank just to keep that one clam!!

Wow! Way to be adventurous! Unfortunately I can't help you there. I watched Survivor China.

! i tried to watch that. but online the episodes are all messsed up. so many are missing or mislinked!!!

Im applying to universities in china. No reason really other than i have nothing holding me to austin and im still young enough to think flying to china to a university i know hardly anything about just for the fact that its dirt cheap...

However the schools are oddly light for information. they seem to always tell me i will get more information when i show up. American universities will provide so much information because for americans thats how we are sold. apparently that is not much a standard.

has anyone spent time living or studying china? any experiences would be enlighting. Im looking at schools in Changchun, Tianjin, and Shanghai.

wasnt here. from austin american statesman. totally blew me away someone would try to scam those. i could believe trying to scam movies or tv or electronic equipment. i could see scamming furniture. but a rare live animal like that? ill post his name whatnot after im done with the police.

well again i have these seahorses. someone offered to buy them and lo-and behold they send me a fake check. really?? who tries to scam for seahorses? like no resale value...

these are going to be gone by wed. im either going to take them to sthe store or if someone anyone wants them let me know. if you can come by wed between 2-7 you can have it all. give me what you want. 50$ 20$ or free whatever.

512 809 2348

madison

second time ive been attempted to be scammed for these horses.