greenhorn

Hi again, It's been awhile and my little 12gal Nano is chuggin along. I haven't tried anything but some live sand, a live rock and the 4 snails that seem happy as they are not dead yet. I don't know if this would qualify as an emergency, but I have hear that cerith eggs take only about a week to hatch if they are going to. I'm wondering, since this is the first thing to actually grow in my tank that's new besides algae, if they are going to make it in the aquarium or should I try to remove them to another tank? This is the first cluster I've seen and it seems to coincide with a resurgence of hair algae I'm having. The little guys are wedged in a crevice of live rock. I'm sorry, but I don't have a good camera to take pictures. Any advice is appreciated. greenhorn

Yeah .. I have no test kits. I probably dd have some salinity swings in my tank but I have a hydometer ( I know, I know ) and it always is between 1.024 and 1.026 when I do check. I thought that because my little cerith's look so great, always eating and moving constantly, that everything was fine. Now I know that it's probably not. Just a status update on the new members that looked rough when I put them in from RCA after adding the new Maxi-Jet and stuff. Mexican Turbo (just like the last Mexican Turbo), but a lot faster died within 24hrs of being in the tank. Kept going in and out of shell and crinkling his foot sometimes. Hardly moved at all. Astrea seemed a little better at first, but pronounced dead shortly after the turbo. Conch though (unknown species) is doing great!??? I am offering up this after still not being able to get by RCA to test water (no car) and also because I just think that is odd. Ceriths & Conch great. Turbo and Astrea dead almost instantly. Not so funny how life works on the far side. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First we sow the seed. Then we grow the seed. Then we eat the seed.

Hey thanks to everyone that's replied.. A couple other things as I haven't been able to make it down to RCA again yet. I have been usually topping off my tank with about a gallon of RO each week or so. I don't use anything for parasites or any supplements. I just let the snails in my tank eat whatever is in there. I did have a huge population of Amphipods going but, they all died around the same time that my turbo did. That was maybe a bad couple weeks for taking care of the tank about 3-4 weeks ago. My new Turbo is still alive.. don't see my conch or astrea much, but the Turbo just keeps doing this hide and seek thing. He comes out his shell and then goes back in .. comes out/in out/in. He's driving me crazy. My two lil cerith's are eating everything they can and never sleep and he just plays peedy pie!!! ARGHHHH! Stupid Snail! I think I need to annex a wing in the asylum for these new guys as they seem scared of anything!

Stoneroller, You know I meant to do that very thing when I was in River City the other day and forgot. Good idea and I will try that first chance I get. I just can't understand why the first crew did so great and the second set look like rubbish. I mean same setup and same params as far as I know... guess the proof is in the pudding. I will do as you recommend. Thanks! GreenHorn

SToneRoLLeR, I am in one of those unfortunate low budge tanks that canyot operate under the parameters of normal aquari'i. I know that I have an algae problem and my ph pen and tds meter are in the shop. My cerith's are doing great... almost to the point that they appear to smoke crack behind a large bolder when the lights are off (Not sure yet). Anaway, just thought I'd check as I hate to see any living thing die. However, these new batch of CUC from River City appear to be the bottom of the barrel. The first guys I put in there took off and went straight for my live rock munching and munching. I don't think they've stopped munching except to say the last rights to the big fat (Don Pablo) Mexican that ate himself to death. Now these new cats with the same scenario, I thought, appear to be rock bottom. I think they are pussified from the hermit's that River City had grabbin proverbial Shellass.

Hello People, I haven't been on here in awhile as I have been letting my little 12gal (first saltwater) cycle for about 3 months. I just put in a new Maxi Jet 900 and have about a 2" sand bed with some new hair algae growing. I also just put in a bag of PhosGuard for the algae prob. I keep my tank right around 1.026 salinity and have had 2 cerith's and 1 turbo between the 1st and 2nd month I had it up. The turbo died. I have had it a bit warm I guess at around 80-82 constantly. My question is. I just bought some new prospects for my CUC to try and get this hair algae taken care of. I cut the lights to once every 3 days and added the SeaChem (Phosguard) @ 100mg f or a 12gal .. a bit much, but not that far off I thought. Anyway, the cerith's that seem to be fine and in the tank now going on 2+ months show no ill affects. However, the new Mexican turbo, conch? and astrea snail even upon drip acclimating them seem very bad off. They mostly just lay there and sometimes it's on there side and all the way out of there shells. I don't know if it was the acclimation which I did speed up (only 15-25 min) because I took over 40 min. to get the home from LFS in their bags. How can I help out my CUC as they look rough? Thanks!