Dear Diary...

[adairable]

Originally Posted by trainfever
You were gone for the weekend? :notsure: I hadn'tnoticed.

by gone i mean I wasn't glued to a computer for eight hours a day :jumping:
I took a nice long run on saturday on the Wissahickon trail down by my house and then paid for allllll day sunday.

SO i just sat on my bum all sunday and played with my tank...did a water change, checked all the parameters, cleaned the glass, & picked up the darn corals that keep going MIA and put them in a new location

 

[trainfever]

Yesterday must have been tank maintenance day, I did a water change and cleaned up my tank also. Cant wait til the Reef opens so I can take all these Xenia frags to them.

 

[perfectdark]

Ha me too. Did the same thing, but I also got to place 3 new corals that I got too. Looks like Sunday was the official clean your tank day. That and I took the dogs to the park.

 

[adairable]

Originally Posted by PerfectDark
Ha me too. Did the same thing, but I also got to place 3 new corals that I got too. Looks like Sunday was the official clean your tank day. That and I took the dogs to the park.

I want a puppy.....actually the reason I got into this hobby was b/c I couldn't have any animals in my apt that have fur

...so now im addicted to this, but I still wanna dog...im thinkin bernese sheepdog or my all time favorite portuguese waterdog

 

[adairable]

Originally Posted by trainfever
Yesterday must have been tank maintenance day, I did a water change and cleaned up my tank also. Cant wait til the Reef opens so I can take all these Xenia frags to them.
I would have taken you up on some of those xenia, but to tell you the truth Im glad I didn't. The small frag I got from bonebrake has already split and one of them is getting pretty large

 

[adairable]

so i have a bit o' cyano and it just wont go away....its not even that bad and its not spreading. There is just some on my sand bed...no where else, but its pissing me off to no end. My nitrates are at 20ppm maybe slightly less, could this be the culprit? Possibly flow/lack o' flow down there???? maybe i'll do another 10% water change tonight.....i just did one yesterday

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by Adairable
I want a puppy.....actually the reason I got into this hobby was b/c I couldn't have any animals in my apt that have fur

...so now im addicted to this, but I still wanna dog...im thinkin bernese sheepdog or my all time favorite portuguese waterdog

Nice, too bad you cant, those are cool dogs. Im an animal lover I have a 10yr old Beagle, and a 10 month old mutt that I rescued from an adoption agency in TN.
Sorry to hear of your cyano issue i would tell you what i just used to get rid of mine a week ago but I just got raked over the coals for having an alternative method than what some have posted in here. Apparently opionions are only good if they favor the side of the majority.

 

[bang guy]

Originally Posted by Adairable
so i have a bit o' cyano and it just wont go away....its not even that bad and its not spreading. There is just some on my sand bed...no where else, but its pissing me off to no end. My nitrates are at 20ppm maybe slightly less, could this be the culprit? Possibly flow/lack o' flow down there???? maybe i'll do another 10% water change tonight.....i just did one yesterday

Cyanobacter usually shows up when the following are present:
Low O2 (caused by low water flow)
Phosphate
Light
Cyano is able to pull Nitrogen right out of the water so the Nitrate level is irrelevant.

 

[bonebrake]

Adair, just blow the cyano off with your turkey baster and then suck it back up and throw it in the potty.
:joy:

 

[adairable]

Originally Posted by Bonebrake
Adair, just blow the cyano off with your turkey baster and then suck it back up and throw it in the potty.
:joy:
you make me giggle....

and btw I am performing a turkey blast right now, but I seriusly need to find the problem :thinking:

 

[adairable]

Originally Posted by Bang Guy
Cyanobacter usually shows up when the following are present:
Low O2 (caused by low water flow)
Phosphate
Light
Cyano is able to pull Nitrogen right out of the water so the Nitrate level is irrelevant.
so i can do a water change for the fun of it to bring my nitrates down but that really isn't going to do anything for the cyano monster....great
way to be the bearer of bad news bang!

 

[adairable]

Originally Posted by PerfectDark
Nice, too bad you cant, those are cool dogs. Im an animal lover I have a 10yr old Beagle, and a 10 month old mutt that I rescued from an adoption agency in TN.
Sorry to hear of your cyano issue i would tell you what i just used to get rid of mine a week ago but I just got raked over the coals for having an alternative method than what some have posted in here. Apparently opionions are only good if they favor the side of the majority.

yea, I'll probably end up getting a mutt in the end, I never had anything but mutts growing up and they were always pretty good dogs

but about the opinion thingy, feel free to e-mail it to me. I am a big girl and can decide on my own whether I will take someone's advice or not.

 

[adairable]

Originally Posted by Bang Guy
Cyanobacter usually shows up when the following are present:
Low O2 (caused by low water flow)
Phosphate
Light
Cyano is able to pull Nitrogen right out of the water so the Nitrate level is irrelevant.
i think it has to be flow then....why else would it only be on the bottom middle of the tank, where, i suspect, the least flow would have to be?What do you think????? :notsure:

 

[bang guy]

Originally Posted by Adairable
i think it has to be flow then....why else would it only be on the bottom middle of the tank, where, i suspect, the least flow would have to be?What do you think????? :notsure:
Quite likely. Cyano isn't the scourge it's made out to be. In my opinion it's just a symptom of a problem, either Phosphates or low waterflow.

 

[adairable]

someone tell me about chiton....i am pretty sure I have a few and they had eggy things on strings floating all around them this evening :help:

 

[bang guy]

They are typically flat and oval shaped mollusks noted for having 8 armored plates along the back. They are strict herbivores that move an an almost imperceptibly slow rate. They are not known for reproducing in a captive environment.

 

[adairable]

Originally Posted by Bang Guy
They are typically flat and oval shaped mollusks noted for having 8 armored plates along the back. They are strict herbivores that move an an almost imperceptibly slow rate. They are not known for reproducing in a captive environment.
Well I have atleast 2...I need to research them more I guess to find out what the stringy egg stuff was that they were dispersing last night

 

[adairable]

After doing a little research I found, as Bang guy said, that they(chiton) are harmless and also that the females will, after fertilization, release eggs that are strung together into the water where they will become trochophore larva
so now my question is what do the larva look like? I tried to google it and got a lot of different types of trochophore larva.
I have this little sluggish looking things on my glass and I am wondering if that is what they are. They are no bigger than a pen point but I can see them moving. They seem to have a forked tail.

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by Adairable
yea, I'll probably end up getting a mutt in the end, I never had anything but mutts growing up and they were always pretty good dogs

but about the opinion thingy, feel free to e-mail it to me. I am a big girl and can decide on my own whether I will take someone's advice or not.
OK But your email address is needed. I tried to use the force but it didnt work...LOL

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by Bang Guy
Quite likely. Cyano isn't the scourge it's made out to be. In my opinion it's just a symptom of a problem, either Phosphates or low waterflow.
I agree my issue was flow no doubt. The 2 places it turned up in were dead to water movement.