Best Day of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Page 2

08-23-2002, 10:52 AM

i am just excited to finnaly have this up and running.

however i do need to get some alge eaters to eat up the alge. as well as some apstasia eaters as well.
and its not like my tank is infested there are a couple rocks with a few apstasia and 1 rock with some alge.

TimBeR · 08-23-2002, 10:57 AM

Man I am so Jealous I can'tr wait till I can get my tanks up and filled with LR

How bout some pics mnreefman

08-23-2002, 12:05 PM

i am at work right now but when i get home tonight i will definetly post a pic. what is the best fillimaus *spelling is off* alge eater out there? also can anyone give me a good crab link. i have a couple of them there the size of a nickle. there white with black pinchers and a black spot covering like 3/4 of his mantel. this is the best description i could give ya. he was trying to eat my coraline alge last night. and didnt stray to far from his little hole in the rock. it is amazing the life that has poped out of these rocks.

08-23-2002, 03:52 PM

someone please let me know what i can get that will eat hte alge. i cleaned off 90% but now my fingers reek like alge.

is there some good snails or something i could add to eat it?

CaptianReef · 08-23-2002, 04:39 PM

Congrats on the live rock! I have not been able to acquire good rock locally lately.

fishinchick · 08-23-2002, 04:52 PM

I think one or two peppermint shrimp would do fine for eating the aiptasia. 10 may be overkill plus you'd have 10 starving peppermints because its rare IMO that they will eat anything else and will go looking for other things once the aips are gone.... like my prized yellow polyps!!

Get different types of snail. Dont just go with turbos. They are not that efficient and mostly stick to the glass. Once your tank is a little older and you are ready to add a fish, get a lawnmower blenny. They are pretty efficient at chomping down the algae!!

HEY YAKMON... did you get that sand from Murray?

GaryG · 08-23-2002, 05:22 PM

When I said 10 shrimp I was sort of exagerating to make a point. Based on what he said in his first note "and a lot and i mean a lot of apstaisa" I was picturing every square inch of rock covered with the little buggers.

That probably goes back to a dream I had last year when I was fighting them. They got me so mad I wanted to put on my scuba gear, jump in the tank, and personally grind each and every one of them to bits with a sharp ice pick. [Whew .... I feel much better now].

yakmon · 08-23-2002, 07:07 PM

adrianne, ya, i got 3 bags from murray. Nice guy, and that glass monstrosity he has in his back yard! Ouch! that thing gonna look sweet when hes done.