Recent content by tsdid

so are scooters bad for live sand beds? I never see him digging very deep in the sandbed, if he even does peck at anything its on the very top. Will the sandbed still help ridding the system of nitrates if the worms were to disappear?

yeah i think it might be the DT's. I have another quick questions though, I know sand sifting stars take out benificial stuff out of live sand. Do scooter blennys do the same? Would they take out anything that would break down the nitrates?

i guess the next question i have is when you add benificail bacteria (LR) it will try to reach equilibrium right? the only things i have added since then are a scooter blenny and a BTA. so should my bioload be close to what i had before and will the same amount of nitrates be created from the...

doe you think the nitrates are rising because I added the rock and therfore added more nitrifying bacteria?

doesn anyone think it might be the phyto, should i slowly remove my bioballs, to compensate for adding the LR. What do you think?

its a 40 gallon tank.

also the rock was cured, it was in a tank setup with fish inverts etc. and I havent had any animal die off.

I have had the tank running for 9 months now, I have 5 fish 2 cardinals and 2 clown, and a scooter blenny. I use RODI water with reef crystals. I have a protien skimmer rated for a 75 gallon, and a wetdry filter. I am in the process of building a fuge. As for inverts i have 5 hermits, 1...

I added some additional LR about a month ago and i have noticed a rise of nitrates from 0 to 20. The one thing i did start doing when i bought the rick is adding DT's phytoplankton. Do you thing this could be the cause? I don't have any corals I am adding it mainly for some sponges and...