mckevinfang
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New 45 Gallon Tank what to do?!
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rcreations
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I've never had experience with a golden angel but I feed my angel different things. I feed it frozen angel and butterfly diet, mysis, my home made preparation (shrimp, fish, scallops, garlic, nori) and algae sheets. As for snails, I don't see why they wouldn't be ok.
mckevinfang
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Originally Posted by RCreations
http:///forum/post/2549027
I've never had experience with a golden angel but I feed my angel different things. I feed it frozen angel and butterfly diet, mysis, my home made preparation (shrimp, fish, scallops, garlic, nori) and algae sheets. As for snails, I don't see why they wouldn't be ok.
thanks for the advice ill try different things also!
Question:
1. how many snails should i get and what kinds?
2. should i take water from my biocube to boost the cycle?
http:///forum/post/2549027
I've never had experience with a golden angel but I feed my angel different things. I feed it frozen angel and butterfly diet, mysis, my home made preparation (shrimp, fish, scallops, garlic, nori) and algae sheets. As for snails, I don't see why they wouldn't be ok.
thanks for the advice ill try different things also!
Question:
1. how many snails should i get and what kinds?
2. should i take water from my biocube to boost the cycle?
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rcreations
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I found Mexican Turbo Snails to be the best, most active and good at cleaning. Astrea Snails are lazy, sometimes they don't move for days, wheras the Mexican Snails are constantly moving. Nasarius (sp?) snails are my favorites to watch, good sand sifters and they clean up junk off the bottom. So I'd go for some of both kinds. 4 Mexican Snails and 10 Nasarius Snails.
When I cycled my 45, I used a piece of LR out of my larger tank to help with the cycle.
When I cycled my 45, I used a piece of LR out of my larger tank to help with the cycle.
mckevinfang
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Originally Posted by RCreations
http:///forum/post/2550152
I found Mexican Turbo Snails to be the best, most active and good at cleaning. Astrea Snails are lazy, sometimes they don't move for days, wheras the Mexican Snails are constantly moving. Nasarius (sp?) snails are my favorites to watch, good sand sifters and they clean up junk off the bottom. So I'd go for some of both kinds. 4 Mexican Snails and 10 Nasarius Snails.
When I cycled my 45, I used a piece of LR out of my larger tank to help with the cycle.
cool thanks for the advice i have a bunch in my biocube ill add and buy some mexican turbos!!!
so on sunday im going to start up the tank and i plan on adding 7 gallons of water from my biocube and 15 lbs of live rock from biocube all to help with cycle. i will add my own premixed saltwater in and take pictures of the steps for all you guys to see!!
Question:
should i run the protein skimmer or wait till i actually have a clean up crew and fish in the tank?
http:///forum/post/2550152
I found Mexican Turbo Snails to be the best, most active and good at cleaning. Astrea Snails are lazy, sometimes they don't move for days, wheras the Mexican Snails are constantly moving. Nasarius (sp?) snails are my favorites to watch, good sand sifters and they clean up junk off the bottom. So I'd go for some of both kinds. 4 Mexican Snails and 10 Nasarius Snails.
When I cycled my 45, I used a piece of LR out of my larger tank to help with the cycle.
cool thanks for the advice i have a bunch in my biocube ill add and buy some mexican turbos!!!
so on sunday im going to start up the tank and i plan on adding 7 gallons of water from my biocube and 15 lbs of live rock from biocube all to help with cycle. i will add my own premixed saltwater in and take pictures of the steps for all you guys to see!!
Question:
should i run the protein skimmer or wait till i actually have a clean up crew and fish in the tank?
ccampbell57
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Run the protien skimmer now. Never hurts
mckevinfang
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Originally Posted by ccampbell57
http:///forum/post/2551508
Run the protien skimmer now. Never hurts
ok thanks for the advice!!
im going to work on setup tomorrow around 2:00 pm PST
for the rubble for the sump should i just hammer some of my live rock from biocube? and im going to buy some chaeto tomorrow also
get ready for a bunch of pictures !!
http:///forum/post/2551508
Run the protien skimmer now. Never hurts
ok thanks for the advice!!
im going to work on setup tomorrow around 2:00 pm PST
for the rubble for the sump should i just hammer some of my live rock from biocube? and im going to buy some chaeto tomorrow also
get ready for a bunch of pictures !!
mckevinfang
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finally up and running now come the waiting time
mckevinfang
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mckevinfang
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Let me know what you guys think
crashbandicoot
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so far so good . Did you start your skimmer ? It will help polish that water up if it hasnt already .I would deffinatly add some more LR in there though .
mckevinfang
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Originally Posted by Crashbandicoot
http:///forum/post/2554052
so far so good . Did you start your skimmer ? It will help polish that water up if it hasnt already .I would deffinatly add some more LR in there though .
yeah im running the skimmer like ccampbell said and i do plan to add some more LR ill post more pic's on wed. or thurs. with more LR and clear pictures.
question:
when should i add the snails?
http:///forum/post/2554052
so far so good . Did you start your skimmer ? It will help polish that water up if it hasnt already .I would deffinatly add some more LR in there though .
yeah im running the skimmer like ccampbell said and i do plan to add some more LR ill post more pic's on wed. or thurs. with more LR and clear pictures.
question:
when should i add the snails?
crashbandicoot
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I would wait for the cycle to finish than add them . thats just me though. Are you ghost feeding the tank ?
mckevinfang
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Originally Posted by Crashbandicoot
http:///forum/post/2554612
I would wait for the cycle to finish than add them . thats just me though. Are you ghost feeding the tank ?
whats ghost feeding? i was about to add in a raw shrimp until you brought this up. more info please thanks
http:///forum/post/2554612
I would wait for the cycle to finish than add them . thats just me though. Are you ghost feeding the tank ?
whats ghost feeding? i was about to add in a raw shrimp until you brought this up. more info please thanks
crashbandicoot
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Originally Posted by mckevinfang
http:///forum/post/2555384
whats ghost feeding? i was about to add in a raw shrimp until you brought this up. more info please thanks
A raw shrimp is good , but ghost feeding is where everyday you feed the tank even though there are no fish . The food breaks down and helps with the cycle . I would do both if I was you .
http:///forum/post/2555384
whats ghost feeding? i was about to add in a raw shrimp until you brought this up. more info please thanks
A raw shrimp is good , but ghost feeding is where everyday you feed the tank even though there are no fish . The food breaks down and helps with the cycle . I would do both if I was you .
mckevinfang
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Originally Posted by Crashbandicoot
http:///forum/post/2555472
A raw shrimp is good , but ghost feeding is where everyday you feed the tank even though there are no fish . The food breaks down and helps with the cycle . I would do both if I was you .
ok ill try both thanks for the advice
http:///forum/post/2555472
A raw shrimp is good , but ghost feeding is where everyday you feed the tank even though there are no fish . The food breaks down and helps with the cycle . I would do both if I was you .
ok ill try both thanks for the advice
mckevinfang
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so i have been ghost feeding and tossed in a raw shrimp i did some aqua scaping and thought this looked cool... is it just me or does this look like a dinosaur fossil head?
crashbandicoot
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It does . I like it
zeke92
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Originally Posted by crimzy
http:///forum/post/2545446
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if he was gonna put an octopus in there he would have needed ot have it drilled and added a nice big sump with some good filters before putting water in the tank. plus, to keep an octopus you sorta need to plan before buy, there not a plan after buy type of fish like an angel or an eel would be.