Recent content by gollus

ok thanks i will remember those for my next purchase, do you know what specific kind of conch you have or do you think almost any would eat the algea? Oh and an update, before this I had not gotten my sump and protein skimmer set up, now that I have and it has been going for a couple of weeks it...

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sorry no digital camera. the algae doesnt grow far off the rock, Maybe 2 mm. And it doesn't Grow any Structures, it just kind of grows all over the place. From far off it looks like just a red Slime, but if you look closely at it yon can see that it is lots of Strands, just like a green hair...

I have this red hair algae growing in my tank. I think it is red hair algae. It is a dark red, almost blood red. But it is not slimy. If you look closely at it you can see its feather like structures, and it stays attached to the rock pretty well. And one of the stranger things is it likes...

I too have damsel fish for the starters. 2 dominoes and one "white stripe". The tank is about 190 gals and about 2/3 live rock, its tall but has a lot of caves, ect. So far the damsels have been doing fine, a little chasing but nothing i would count as aggressive. I will probably want...

I am wondering everyones oppinion on brine shrimp. Particularily raising your own evergrowing batch. When I first began researching my tank this seemed like a really cool idea, but as I have been reading it seems like very few people do this. My main question is why not? Are they just that...

Ahh thanks for the tips. Well ok I will describe the plumbing to the best of my abilities: 4 holes are drilled into the bottom of the tank, one in each corner. 2 have intake caps on them, 2 have outflow spouts on them. Under the tank starting from an intake: Water goes down into a PVC pipe...

Ok here is the deal: After learning the ropes on freshwater tanks, and being successful, I decided to go into saltwater tanks. So after much research and reading I decided to finally look for one to buy. I went on ebay and found a very nice looking 190 gal acrylic tank. It was a complete set...