tosiek
New Member
Hey everyone! first time posting but been reading these boards for the past 4 months or so.
anyways i have a cichlid tank which is doing amazing and two weeks ago from reading these boards for so long i ended up getting myself a saltwater reef tank. I was going to get myself a 56g tank to put in the living room but when i went to price out everything in the LFS he gave me a price at around $2000 without the upgraded lighting and the chiller which i would need (gets a bit hot in the room) so i descided on going for the smaller 24g nano tank. Its still in the cycling process (think its over btw but gonna let it run for another 2 weeks, had my boost in ammonia and now its gone with a stable higher than 0 but still low nitrate level) all in all all the levels are where they should be, 400-420 mg/l calc 3.5 alk 8.1 ish ph, and a .2~ phos which i am trying to fix (getting hair algae everywhere and getting the phosphate add in bag tommorrow to get rid of the phos)
anyways i've been sitting in front of the tank checking out all the cool stuff happening to my LR and trying to get my pumps to now blow my live sand around (its not much but every two days i get a indent forming in the sand along the front of the tank) and i noticed something really wierd that wasn;t a patch of hair algae or bubble algae that i've been getting recently.
Its sort of light brownish and has tentacles in a circular pattern that sort of fold over pointing upwards in the center, which before when i turned the rock over to get a better look had a small darker spot in the center. Its soft and pretty see through, think its a worm of some sort /shrug from what i remember seeing in a post one day. I tried to get a picture of it to post but its too damn tiny, bout the size of an earaser head and in the back of the tank on a piece of LR. If the tentacles were to lay out flat its pretty much the size of a dime. When i moved the rock and the current from the pumps hit it the tentacles shrank a bit and it got darker and the current pushed the tentacles against the rock. i put it back and put it where i could see it better and got a little bigger and lighter from where i found it.
Gonna get my sis to come over with her camera and turn off the pumps to bring it up close and take a pic to post. I dunno if the explaination i gave helps at all, but i'm pretty excited about seeing something alive in the tank! Can;t wait till next week when i get my cleaning crew!
Ps. Sorry for the essay. Know it was alot to read before i got to the hitchhiker part.
anyways i have a cichlid tank which is doing amazing and two weeks ago from reading these boards for so long i ended up getting myself a saltwater reef tank. I was going to get myself a 56g tank to put in the living room but when i went to price out everything in the LFS he gave me a price at around $2000 without the upgraded lighting and the chiller which i would need (gets a bit hot in the room) so i descided on going for the smaller 24g nano tank. Its still in the cycling process (think its over btw but gonna let it run for another 2 weeks, had my boost in ammonia and now its gone with a stable higher than 0 but still low nitrate level) all in all all the levels are where they should be, 400-420 mg/l calc 3.5 alk 8.1 ish ph, and a .2~ phos which i am trying to fix (getting hair algae everywhere and getting the phosphate add in bag tommorrow to get rid of the phos)
anyways i've been sitting in front of the tank checking out all the cool stuff happening to my LR and trying to get my pumps to now blow my live sand around (its not much but every two days i get a indent forming in the sand along the front of the tank) and i noticed something really wierd that wasn;t a patch of hair algae or bubble algae that i've been getting recently.
Its sort of light brownish and has tentacles in a circular pattern that sort of fold over pointing upwards in the center, which before when i turned the rock over to get a better look had a small darker spot in the center. Its soft and pretty see through, think its a worm of some sort /shrug from what i remember seeing in a post one day. I tried to get a picture of it to post but its too damn tiny, bout the size of an earaser head and in the back of the tank on a piece of LR. If the tentacles were to lay out flat its pretty much the size of a dime. When i moved the rock and the current from the pumps hit it the tentacles shrank a bit and it got darker and the current pushed the tentacles against the rock. i put it back and put it where i could see it better and got a little bigger and lighter from where i found it.
Gonna get my sis to come over with her camera and turn off the pumps to bring it up close and take a pic to post. I dunno if the explaination i gave helps at all, but i'm pretty excited about seeing something alive in the tank! Can;t wait till next week when i get my cleaning crew!
Ps. Sorry for the essay. Know it was alot to read before i got to the hitchhiker part.
