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Phil, you need to manually remove as much of that as you can. That way your crew can clean up what is left, which is should be able to keep up with.

Hat, I'd need some dimensions.

Hope you're right, but it is a bit frustrating right now since things were going pretty well before I added the sump.

Since you don't have any fish, are you feeding the tank anything? what I've getting at, is are you adding nutrients to the system in any way?

It will all be ok Phil, everything is prolly getting use to that new sump you installed. If I look at my tank algae pops up..lol. Your tank looks good and everything will be back to normal soon I believe.

Douwant2play, yeah I need more clean up crews. All I have is 1 cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimps, 5 snails, and 5 hermits. I definitely need some more snails and hermits. I'm going to get a emerald crab soon I hope.

Yeah Melev, how much would it cost "you believe" on estimate to build me that frag tank. (my cost) Really just the rectangle. I would put my own filter. Or price with false back self contained filer in rear. That would be sweet.

Here's mine from today. Lousy shot, I was in a hurry. One of my cromis disappeared recently, my monti is bleaching, my frogspawn isn't expanding and the blasted brown hair algae is coming back.

Thank ya Phil, weird thing it came after I did a tree day lights out..lol. But yeah I'm still doing water changes every other day 1/4 of the tank. All my reading are good now except the PH it gos from 20 to 40. Nitrates is 0.

That rock you see it on has sponges on it, do you think if I took it out totally in water and cleaned it with tooth brush it won't hurt the good stuff?

Originally Posted by Hat39406

@ douwat2play-your tank is so clean!! What do you do to keep the algae out?

thanks hat! Nothing special, I only have one fish, that I spot feed a couple of pieces of food every other day, and I do a 1 gallon water change every 3 days. then of course the daily Magfloat glass scrub. Also I have 5 cerith snails, 3 nassarius snails, a bunch of hitchhiker Stomatella snails; so a big clean up crew for a small tank, which I'm sure helps.

Cyano Bacteria. Just keep up with your water changes, and siphon out as much as you can each time. 3 day blackouts also work well against it. As young as your tank is, don't panic, if you keep the water clean it should go away on it's own.

Probably be faster if you had melev build you one. Advance Acrylics web-site doesn't work.

Thanks for the info Agsansoo! I want one of those frag tanks. I guess I will google the name and see who sells it. You have some very nice setups. I knew if I said Monti it would turn out something else..lol. Wow, the Chalice is big..nice!

The frag tank is a 5 gallon (20"L x 15"W x 5"D). It's an Advance Acrylics all-in-one tank with filter baffles in the back section of the tank. This allows you to place carbon and live rock rubble for filtration, without the need to use a sump. It was mainly designed as a portable frag swap tank. It's sell for around $75-$100.

My DT is a 65 gallon rounded corners, bow-front glass tank.

The monti is really a green and red Chalice !

@ Dread- hey when our corals grow out a bit maybe we can do some swapping!

@ douwat2play-your tank is so clean!! What do you do to keep the algae out?

@ Agsonsoo- what is the measurements on ya frag tank? Did you make or buy it? If you bought it do you have a link? I don't see filtration? Also very nice grown SPS! How many gallons is your DT? One more question please-What kind of Monti is that left side by glass center. I love Montis!

@ Melev- want to trade tanks? ;-p j/k

And my seahorse/refugium tank.

And my frag tank.

Here's mine from about three weeks ago. I'm always moving the smaller corals around.

Here is mine, that I just took a couple minutes ago.




Since mine is so small, I took some coral pics too.

Yeah I was checking out tanks and prices at wal-mart the other day.

Needs more corals still Accepting all free frags, please send tell lol

Sure it will. Let's see more pictures, y'all.