Recent content by rpogge

OK, I have added a cleanup crew now, 8 turbo snails, 8 astria snails, 6 blue leg hermits, 6 crimson leg hermits, 2 fighting conchs, 4 nessarius snails. I also have added the two 1200 powerheads, and blasted the live rock off as suggested, I siphoned as much of the slime algae out as I could...

I have an Aqua-C Remora hang on skimmer. Is that considered "good" ? http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewItem.asp?idproduct=ACRM Thanks for the advice. I got 2 more maxi1200's going now and my 2 AQ30's .. PLENTY of flow now. like 1000+ GPH in a 55 galon with no coral or anything, shoudl be more...

Dinoflagellates?

Well the better my water quality gets the worse this crap gets. It is on EVERY surface in my tank today. Looks to be dino for sure, when I scoop it out its clear/brown snot consitency, full of bubbles. I added some chemi-clean today if its cyano it shoudl clear up in 24-48 hours, my h20...

OK 55 gallon 2 AQ30 powerheads, Maxijet1200 on a remora hang on skim, and a penguin 350 biowheel hang on. Started cycling with live rock, agra-alive sand 2.5 weeks ago. 40 pounds of sand, 60 pounds of rock just added 10 snails to try and get the brown stuff, they are not realy eatting it though...

yes now its starting to get lots of air bubbles, and it is very fragile, breaks when you touch it. smells HORRIBLE when you scoop it out with a net. Its getting much worse now. I do not have enough flow I found out. I have a maxi`1200 driving a skimme.r a penguin350 biowheel filter, and two...

Im getting this black/very dark grey algae, its stringy, but almost feathery lookign in some places, and it grows in almost a web-like structutre as it gets bigger. It got over 12 inches long in places, and a couple strings of it went almost the whole length of my tank. Ive looked all over the...