Hey y'all new here at razorback reef and not really good at these introductions but here it goes me and my wife live in Benton and own a 75gal with a eshopps rs200 sump all stocked from the local fish stores in and around saline county, and would like to thank the guys from the fish tank, and Kevin from Paradise for showing me this forum. Hopefully yalls experience, and doubtfully but maybe mine will teach us all something anyways thank y'all in advance for taking time out to read my post Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
Welcome bbearden! We have quite a few members in the Benton/Bryant/Alexander area. Hope to see you at a meeting soon!
Hiya, Welcome! Waiting on John Caroll to determine if he's going to let us hold the April meeting at his house or if we'll need another location. Kim/Benton, AR
Next meeting is April 16th as John said. It will be at the home of John Carroll, 15 Krooked Kreek Drive, Cabot, AR I'll start a meeting thread!
Awesome good to know and thanks for the welcomes I have a young son so I may not be able to make some of them but I'm definitely going to try it's alot easier talking to people about issues than over the phone or keyboard. I'm dealing with slight hair algae problems at the moment and added some more snails today and looking around watching them I found out I have a small bristle worm thats been undetected so far kinda a interesting critter tho Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
Hiya, Hair algea can be an issue with a new tank set up. a good CUC should take care of that...plus using good water too. Bristle worms aren't all that bad. I have them in my tank. They can be considered part of the CUC. Some folks just don't like them. Kim/Benton, AR
Awesome it doesn't bug me so ima leave it. I'm slowly getting my cuc stocked up I have 2 turbos, 6 blue legged hermits, 1 conch, and 2 star shelled snails or something like that Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
The Stars snails are great additions to the CUC I have a couple of them in all of my tanks Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
I think bristle worms are not liked because of their appearance. Valuable part of the CUC that self regulates depending on how much detritus is available. I haven't found anything that eats hair algae. Agree it (and diatoms) is just a part of a new tank. It will go away, just practice good husbandry and keep NO3 and PO4 under control.
I always check them nitrates usually twice a week and phosphates every week my nitrates are usually either so low my test kit doesn't read it or the hair algae just eats it all and I can't detect it either way the cuc is starting to make a dent thinking about what others I want to add. Any recommendations? I have blue leg crabs so can't get red legs Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
Welcome to Razorback Reef! Sounds like a refugium might help. Growing macro algaes can help control hair algae. There are too many benefits. I think all tanks do better with one.
I have a rs200 with a huge chaeto ball in it and algae growing everywhere down there so far no critters in it tho Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
Flake food twice once first thing in the morning and again around lunch aslong as I can and a small portion of frozen cube before bed Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
You might be overfeeding a little. Cutting the input cuts the output. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G928A using Tapatalk
I dose microvert usually once a week I have a couple nems, green star polyps, and a zoa frag do I really need to be dosing it as often or could I slack off to like everyother week till I get more corals\inverts Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
I would cut back to every other week. These corals and the nems get their energy from photosynthesis. So some people don't feed them at all. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G928A using Tapatalk
