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U've got a big sand shifter!! hrhrhr its a torchus snail btw

Never seen any of them harming the inhabitants in my tank, infact they're very beneficial, they feed on excess food and whatever decaying in ur tank, a nice addition of the clean up crew family. If you cant stand the way they look, try giving them to other reefers.

prun them when the growth is thick, provide enu nutrient (Iron, NO3 ..etc)

Cant 100% .. but would reduce the chances of them going asexual

It has been fun So long now..ehheh

ive tried and successfully combat hairalgae with long spined urchin & torchus snails

but fish feeds constantly in the wild?!

Cyano is common is everyone's reef tank cant really totally get rid of it..only possible to reduce it if feeding "high quality" food gives u water quality problem..u may wanna try Dr Ron's advice on feeding "low quality" food but with higher feeding frequency theres an article on that somewhere in reefkeeping.com

Wow..very interesting fact! THanks for sharing!

covering? no they can help in reducing the nutrient tho..indirectly reducing the cyano

i think it would a good deal if s/he could also help u with the re-establishment of the reef setup .. better than paying more for the "schoolfee"

i'll start fragging stuff when ive the time...been really really busy lately have few small piece of lime GSP to let go... my red opened brain budded quite sometime ago..will chisel it when im free .. those buttons r getting really annoying too..

AHhh.. they're spaghetti worm..very beneficial they keeps ur sandbed clean so does bristle worms...

secret? sure..be lazy do not perform waterchange... feed phytoplankton everyday...throw in 1 frozen cube of seafood every 2 day.. and see ur critters multiply im running macroalgae filter with 24/7 photoperiod to keep PO4 & NO3 both at zero

if ur tank is too small for donkey dung...try to get some nassarius snails.. im not sure if those "sand-sifting goby" & starfish r sandbed safe or not... i think they would do more harm than good ... ask if anyone is willing to spare u some bristle worms why are u looking for sand shifter anyway? whats ur situation?

i dont specifically do zoo mostly soft & LPS..they just bud and bud

Does it happened to be the same as this?? They're growing madly in my tank!

nano

Some FW planted tank substrates (AquaSoil) would affact the PH of the water to a more suitable condition i believe..which would be very unsuitable for reef tank

whatever mud.. as long as it helps in macroalgae growth without any other side effect.. its good Kent marine BioSediment is half the price of MM (in eAquaNature.com) .. anyone care to give it a try?

I've a layer of MM (5lbs) on top of my DSB in my sump/refug (2ft tank) with 24/7 of 36w PL light over it. Ive been having it for over a year already. During the 1st 3 month .. my sump was full of cyano algae.. but amazingly .. the display tank still looks great with bristleworm & pods multiplying fast... I added a surge device (Carlson surge design) to my sump few months back and it seems to improve the growth rate of the macroalgae .. Ive not been running any skimmer for the past 1 1/2 years .. and dont perform regular water change neither.. the only additive i dose r calcium & carbonate buffer

Looks like Gracilaria..but tang/snail..etc would have prob eaten them up already

Yea... good effort in replicating the real reef

.. .. .. .. 24) 12 Nassarius Snails (CKS)

Ah yes... after seening much of coral packed tank..its good to see tank with simple yet neat scaping once in a while..good combination of lights / rocks & water.. very zen indeed.