The comet's 5 footer!!!

[djviper]

ah thats serious

my old tank also got invaded lol got a few snails and they work wonders

but they kinda got lazy and clumsy they cleaning the wrong direction

u might wanna put the snails on the serious part to prevent further growth

[Ancelot]

All the best dude. Hope you find a solution quick for your diatoms problem!

Just my 2 cents worth..

[shoelevy]

hm...wat do u guys suggest between snails, hermits and sally foot crab?

[shoelevy]

how bout sand shifter star?

i jus put one in my 4footer and boy is my sand clean!

but that's a FOWLR

wonder if its suitable for a reef tank

how bout brittle star?

[Ekia]

Nothing to worry about... diatoms is very normal in a new tank. They will be gone once the silicates are used up... Trying using RO/DI water if u really hate them Anyway, diatoms don't cause any harm except being unsightly

[Ekia]

how bout sand shifter star?

i jus put one in my 4footer and boy is my sand clean!

but that's a FOWLR

wonder if its suitable for a reef tank

how bout brittle star?

a black sea cucumber can clean the sandbed really wall... for LRs and tank walls, can try algae blenny.. a hardworking fella

[shoelevy]

aren't sea cucumbers not recommended since they r toxic?

[Ekia]

aren't sea cucumbers not recommended since they r toxic?

then shoudn't we not have anemones as well? Just make sure you don't have exposed pump such that they can kill themselves while crawling. Should be fine...

[RAV-65]

Bro, u might wanna check ur phosphates level, coz if it's really low, the ditoms dun really grow... using rowas is good, coz it absorbs silicates as well...

Also, if the phosphates go out of control, u might a more serious problem, cyano!!

[blueheaven]

Try getting a BLACK sea cuke to sift your sand.

As long as they do not get disturbed, its all right

[shoelevy]

Bro, u might wanna check ur phosphates level, coz if it's really low, the ditoms dun really grow... using rowas is good, coz it absorbs silicates as well...

Also, if the phosphates go out of control, u might a more serious problem, cyano!!

i tested with tropic marin test kit...the phosphate level is below 0.01ppm

its that low

aniwae...i kept my tunze blowing for 24hrs last nite and some diatoms started disappearing

aniwae...went shopping todae with 3 other reefers...went to pasir ris then a few other lfs.

got myself these items

1)Yuma

[shoelevy]

2) 2 more dispars

[shoelevy]

3)10 turbo and algae blenny

notice how the left side of the glass is free of algae?

the turbos cleansed it!

[Ancelot]

Might be due to your high amount of feeding and the high poos your fishes give out yeah? Tangs and anthias do poo alot.

Just my 2 cents worth..

[blueheaven]

I do not really like snails for cleaning the tank walls as they leave mouthprints all over.

You can try scraping algae yourself, and its faster too

[shoelevy]

i jus bought my powdered form of cyclopeeze and tried feeding

i realised the cycplopeeze dun sink fast enough and stay floating and get sucked down into the sump before the fishes get to eat them

of course, normally wat many will do is get a small cup, put the cyclopeeze in and stir to make it sink before feeding but this christmas, i'm leaving for 8daes and i'm planning to put this cyclpeeze in an autofeeder.

obviously, in such a case, the cyclopeeze will be dispensed and the same prob will be faced - they dun sink and get sucked down to sump b4 fishes can eat.

its a mighty waste of food and my anthias will starve since they only take cyclopeeze

can anione pls advice me on how to solve this prob?

[pegasus1010]

see attached pic.

position your auto feeder such tat it drop the food into the hole.

The food will stay there & sink from there. Problem solved.

[shoelevy]

oh i see

i went to buy a bigger version of this and the autofeeder, i shall set it up this weekend and post the pics here.

await my post!

btw, got a question, i'm now ready to buy some algae for my refugium but i'm not sure wat algae would be suitable

can anione tell me the names of some suitable candidates and hopefuly post pics of them so i noe wat to look for at lfs...thanks!

[tineng]

search the forums....i think there is a diy version using food container....dam cheap....less then a dollar....

[pegasus1010]

btw, got a question, i'm now ready to buy some algae for my refugium but i'm not sure wat algae would be suitable

many dudes looking for chaetomopha algae..

better than caulpera.

u going east coast? rumors of sightings there..

[shoelevy]

jus now wen to reborn at bout 8pm

and got this algae for my refugium...hope its not the wrong kind

, while i was at reborn i saw this girl think in her early 20s...very SwWWWwwweeeeeT!

she was with her frend....wonder if she's an SRC member too

she's so heavenly!....

[shoelevy]

this is how it looks as a whole

flowrate is 300L/hr powered by an eheim compact 300

light used is 2ft ocean free with 15W classica Fl lamp

[shoelevy]

my yuma colony

see the one in the centre?

it wasn't there last week!...or at least it was there but was jus an infant

jus a week later and its so big, the other 2 yumas were 20 and 10cent coin in size but this week, they're 50 and 20 cents in size respectively!

its so amazing how fast they grow!

[shoelevy]

the left yuma with the small one on the top rite

its SOOooooOOO beautiful, jus like the girl in reborn

haha

[shoelevy]

the rite yuma