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Live rock was put in to start system, however - some may think this cruel, :evil: we waited a couple of weeks then added 2 black mollies (only after aclimatising to salt water for over 6 hours with slow drip set up) to see if ammonia would spike, went up slightly but then settled back to 0...

Hi Our tank has only been running 6 weeks with Liverock, and we have the same little white critters I believe you call pods crawling all over glass and rock. The good news is we have just added to common clowns (1 week ago) and they have frozen food (defrosted of course) for breakfast & tea...

Thanks, for help, daughter will be happy that she can still have cleaner shrimp (that girl has watched finding nemo far tooooo much :lol: )

Thanks for advice, Tank is quite small :oops: by marine standards 180 litres (aprox 40 gallons), so will take advice and wait a couple of weeks after adding clowns. My daughter also wants to eventually add a cleaner shrimp, are there any compatability issues with this and a resident peppermint...

Hi all, My daughter's tank appears to be ready for its first fish :D , all tests good and lfs are checking the water tomorrow to make our testing correct for ammonia, nitrite etc. All being well we will purchase 2 clowns either common or percula. However today I spotted what appears to be a...

Thanks for all the advice, haven't found any more slugs and zoas have recovered well from previous munching!!! Havn't seen britttle star but hae only found two more asterinas since tweezering off others...being careful not to leave any bits in tank as don't want them reproducing.

H, we have a fluval filter and the advice/instructions that came with it supports all that martin says with regard to rinsing in tank water and only doing some of the filter media, our lfs told us to keep the carbon in but to replace the green fluval sponge (bacterial sponge) with a blue one...

Hi all, have tweezered off 7 starfish and 2 sea slugs - I missed one at first and you should see what it did to my zoa :x I had no mercy with him and sqished him between my tweezers! Have gone back to LFS and bought more live rock, with lots of microscopic bits in to try and start cycle -...

Thanks waymack97 for the possible star fish name, I've checked the web and It is the same as those documented....I am now arming myself with tweezers as it appears they can have population explosions and eat corel :( I just hope I don't break any bits off as don't want them to multiply that way.

Hi all, thanks for all comments & support, will try and answer all questions asked... 1) magnet used on sand to remove ferrous metal particals - we found several bits surprisingly. 2)Live rock came from lfs, It was part of an old batch that had been in one of the fish display tanks, my daughter...

Hi we are new (2 weeks into first cycle) to marine tanks, but have read lots, from library, bought books and used internet. I don't know if my advice is any good cos I am very new to this, but I found the following books interesting. Your first marine aquarium By John Tullock, published by...

Thanks everyone for the comments and info. I am not sure if the slug is eating the Zoa it's hard to tell at moment, have also spotted another smaller snail of similar colouring..I hope they don't take over the tank! Some of the zoa has opened - see photo, but I am a little worried that it may...

Sorry I only have a little digital camera, I have tried to copy & enlarge a couple of images see attached...they are a bit blurred Im afraid

slug is by polyp, below orange sponge very small spiky with yellow ish tips, (sadly it had slid of the glass before I could get my camera to photo it) its about .5cm above blue arrow head. Can u see it now?

sorry don't know how to add more than one pic at a time so heres the orange stuff.