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Originally Posted by florida joe So you completed a cycle added a clean up crew and added nothing for organic brake down for a month I don't understand the question. I added the cleanup crew after the tank cycled the first time. I originally had live rock only.

Originally Posted by mkroher did you get an ammonia spike when you added the cleanup crew? I did get an amonia spike, then the levels started to level off but got a red bacteria, followed by a algae bloom. Seems to be clearing up now. I can test the water and post the levels later. Could it...

I recently set up a new 90gal reef tank with live rock and sand. The tank was set up in July, live rock was added but was uncured so it took a while to cycle, about a month. In August, the tank appeared to be ready for a clean-up crew. (Nitrites, Nitrates and Amonia levels good) The crew has...

I recently set up a new 90gal reef tank with live rock and sand. The tank was set up in July, live rock was added but was uncured so it took a while to cycle, about a month. In August, the tank appeared to be ready for a clean-up crew. (Nitrites, Nitrates and Amonia levels good) The crew has...

Please identify the coral frags i recently picked up from a LFS. The one on the bottom left corner, to the left of the open brain and below the goby was identified as a blastomussa. Also the purple guy between the frogspawn and candy cane, he was identified as a scolymia which it is clearly...

Arrow crab that terrorized my entire tank until he shishkababed my cardnial and i chased him around the tank with the end of a net, him wearing the cardinal like a boxing glove. Managed to get the cardinal off his claw, killing the crab in the process. Oh yeah, and the cardinla died. Later...

Sometimes when there is an accumulation of sediment or algae on the matt of the star pollyp, it won't like it and refuse to come out. When this happened to mine, i took a baster / clean joe's juice syringe and shot some of the tank water on to the purple matt and blew off some junk that had...

Looks like my orange digitata

Looks like it may be some kind of ricordea mushroom, but i'm no expert.