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I know that the rust colored dust forming on my LR and on my CC is natural, however, is it due to the water I'm using (distilled tap water) or is it from the lack of a clean up crew (just finished cycling), any suggestions for a clean up crew, I'm thinking for my 30gal 10-15 snails, (...

it just started recently. I had my tank up and running at school. Came home for 4 days, left an automatic feeder on the tank, however it didn't work. I returned to a fish that had been eaten (yellow damsel), I moved the tank home and since the move the 4 stripe has become even worse...

30 gallon tank, 22 lbs of LR, 15lbs Crushed Coral, Been up since May, Just finished re-cycling a few days ago. Had the LFS test the water yesterday, Ammonia and Nitrites at 0, Nitrates around 30, Ph at 8.2 SG - 1.024, I got pods and bristle worms everywhere, current livestock...

I have a 4 stripe damsel that wont stop eating the tail of my blue, at least I think its the 4 stripe, can i make it stop?

so then how do I know when I have enough bacteria growth in the LR to remove the filter?

I'm confused, cause I looked through a bunch of posts and people talk about having enough LR that they don't need a filter. He hasn't tried to sell me fish, he made me buy more LR today. I still need more, I only have 22lbs in a 30 gallon tank, gonna finish off with another 20lbs in the...

Just got back from the LFS, got more LR for the tank, almost done, anyway, I have a 30 gal with a crappy wisper filter that came with the tank. The Guy at the shop suggested I take out the black sponge pad as well as change the filter and leave out the charcoal. Basically leaving only the...

that worm lookin thing is a bristle worm (aka fireworm) , which meany there are also isopods and others in the LR, don't know if any of them could do it to the fish, mine loses parts of his tail, but i'm assuming it's my other fish. What else do you have in the tank?

I like to have a little knowledge before I go, I dont like walking in uninformed and buying things I can't have, shouldn't have. Already spent way too much money on fish that haved died.

Bristle Worms, there a sign the tank is healthy, don't think there bad unless they start to overpopulate and eat everything. A few is good, they are pat of your clean up crew along with pods.

30 gallon ? about future plans I'm slowly adding LR, I don't feel like going to the LFS and say "can I have some snails and a crab and some shrimp" I had a fire shrimp but it died and I hear they are worthless. Are Skunk cleaners worth the money. How many snails and crabs. When I'm...

My levels are back down to zero and now it is time to assemble a clean up crew, I have a 30 gal with 15lbs CC and 16lbs LR, I knpw I need more LR but it's more expensive than gold here. What should I start with for a good clean up crew. I know nothing about, snails, cabs and shrimp...

First, thanks to everyone for their help, my ammonia levels are finially close to zero, today was .2, thats a huge drop from the 4.0 over the weekend. THANK YOU Now that the tank is about to finish it's cycle, I need a clean up crew. It's a 30 gallon tank with about 18lbs of LR, I adding...

if you don't want to use chem's just syphon it out when u do water changes, it will naturally turn to other foms of algee over time, then just get a algee eater.

I hear the broke college student part, I don't know how it works n saltwater for but light output is based on lumonisity, the measure of how much energy the light puts off. SO I don't think the distance matters, it doesn't for gardening

sorry about that

see the bubbles off to the left, you can see smaller ones travel from there all around the tank, the only spot is the far back corner behind the big piece of LR

Wisper, but I dont have the tank full to the top, theres a 1 inch gap or so between the filter edge and the water line. You can see the water moving almost all the way to the bottom of the tank

The hang on filter I have creates a pretty strong current in my tank. I was feeding live brine and within seconds they were throuhgout the tank, it's the same now with the frozen. The water in my tank is definatly moving, do I stil need one? It's only a 30 gal.

thank you, i'm learning, although I have to give a thanks to all of you out there who have answered countless dumb questions for me.