1st Marine Tank Diary

[Stingray]

Right managed to snap some more pics of that hairy monster.



Will any of the critters die with the lighting i have at the mo?

[tazzy695]

only thing I would worrie about is the coral polyp but it seems to be open and happy

as for the nudie they are great algae eaters if that is a letus nudie hopefully it isn't one of the many bad ones

the snail looks like a bumble bee snail cant rember if they are good or bad

I see you have some diatom algae growing in the sand and maby some cyanobacteria on the rock dose it look and feel like slime

the diatom will go away in time what kind of sand is that looks like poolfilter sand if so change it out for agronite sand or calcium based sand instead of silicate based sand diatoms eat silicates

all in all tank is looking good so far

marc

[Stingray]

Cheers m8
The substrate is 16kg of argonite sand, how can i tell if my critters are good or bad?

Stingray

[Stingray]

will this help i got a vid of one? what is it?
Sorry about the quality was done on my mobile.

[tazzy695]

if you could get a super close up pic of the nudi then we could probly id it but from your previous pics we cant see enough detail to be able to id properly

[Stingray]

Ok will try and get another soon,in the meantime another piece of rock went in today from the lfs, i was sitting there admireing it and noticed within the rock a purpley colour darker then the rest of the rock ,so i decided to investigate with a syringe and gave it a little prod, and it moved out the rock a little then shot deep inside to me from what i have researched on the net of how it looks could possibly be a porcelain crab, he looks to be nocturnal are they?

[Stingray]

ok these pics any better?

[tazzy695]

good pics I would post them in the id this forums as I am not sure personaly other than that they are some kind of nudi I thaught ledus nudies were suposed to be green though

[aquaboy]

thats sea hare as i believe. They devour algae amazingly, but unless fed a large amount of Algae, will die. I would ask to return to LFS, they are really only able to be sustained in large systems.......

[Stingray]

At the moment i have a load of brown algae & he is doing a good job at eating parts of it, is it not worth keeping him untill my cylce and algae bloom as calmed down & then return him?