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03-23-2008, 08:01 PM
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Oops I fragged it again!
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Greenville,SC
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Hey Scott!
You guys have any Nerite snails?? i'm looking to up the CUC in my tank and supposedly they eat Cyano...
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03-23-2008, 08:22 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New York
Posts: 671
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I have plenty of cerite and in my tank they don't eat the cyano.
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03-23-2008, 08:30 PM
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Oops I fragged it again!
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Greenville,SC
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LOL Debs... Nerite snails.. not Cerite..LOL, and i think you meant Cerith snails?? |
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03-23-2008, 08:51 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Simpsonville, South Carolina
Posts: 318
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Haha, wouldn't getting rid of the problem be easier then buying snails to rid the product of the problem?
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03-23-2008, 09:21 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Greenville, SC
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I have them Tony and they don't touch the stuff. Nothing to do but keep up with the water changes.
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03-23-2008, 09:31 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Simpsonville, South Carolina
Posts: 318
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I got an octopus skimmer too and as soon as I got it my cyano went bye bye |
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03-24-2008, 03:39 PM
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Oops I fragged it again!
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Greenville,SC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by joker577
Haha, wouldn't getting rid of the problem be easier then buying snails to rid the product of the problem?
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I got this under control Brandon... the problem isn't something that was in my control (other than i could have cooked my rocks for a much longer period of time) I can assure i am well aware of how to get rid of it. In asking about the Nerite snails, the ReefScavengers site says they eat Cyano, so I thought i would give them a shot to get rid of the remaing Cyano in my tank, but i have come a LONG way from what the tank looked like about 2 months ago. BTW, i have an Octopus skimmer as well, and NW200 to be exact..
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03-24-2008, 08:24 PM
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Keeper of the Kracken
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Martin, SC
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Hey Tony, the Nerites won't touch the stuff. They seem to stay on the glass more than anyplace else, eating that film algae stuff. I bought them hoping they would help me out by eating it but no such luck, and I have a bunch of them. 
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03-24-2008, 09:22 PM
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Oops I fragged it again!
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Greenville,SC
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hmmm smells like false advertising to me..LOL
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03-24-2008, 09:52 PM
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senior member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Walnut Grove, SC, USA
Posts: 13,319
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Tony, bristle-toothed ( Ctenochaetus spp.) tangs, but in reality, your tank may be too small for one of them...  not only will they eat cyanobacteria, but most substrate-growing algae in general and detrital mulm on the bottom. Their "dentition" and their jaw structure makes it easy for them to eat films of unicellular algal mats that are scooped off the substrate or scraped off hard surfaces.
Koles, white-tiled bristletoothed tangs, etc.
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03-25-2008, 05:10 AM
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Oops I fragged it again!
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Greenville,SC
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Thanks Tom! Yeah i think the tank is a little small for one of those guys...
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03-26-2008, 01:03 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: clemson, SC
Posts: 620
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we do have nerites, but i do not believe they eat cyano... sorry for the slow reply been outa town.
The nerites are great little snails, but i haven't seen them doing that. My dad just picked up some yellow tipped hermits from LA and he said they are jumping right on it (they advertise them to do this) i don't know much about them but he says they are working. I may try to get craig to order some of these next week. i'll let you know.
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