Shipping from Saltwaterfish.com

[texgirl]

I need to have crabs, snails, and a # of other things by Friday.
If I place my order tonight by Saltwaterfish.com will they ship it out
tommorow?
Thanks, John

 

[wbilton]

Probably not, I've ordered stuff on Wednesday before, they didn't ship until the next Monday. Why do NEED them by Friday?

 

[texgirl]

Algea is eating my tank alive. I have a new tank and it is being taken over.

 

[jacknjill]

if its brown, its diatoms, which will go away on their own
is your tank cycling?

 

[wbilton]

If your tank is not done cycling don't add anything.

 

[texgirl]

I am new to the hobby and am not sure.
I set my 125gal tank up 1 1/2 weeks ago. Is this enough time to cycle.
The brown stuff starting showing up 2 days ago. Yesterday it was not to bad. Today the whole tank is close to taken over.
Any suggestions? What do you think?

 

[wbilton]

its called diatoms, its normal, it will go away by itself btu if you want you can clean the the glass, and use a turkey baster to blow off the rocks. and no your tank has not cycled yet. do you have a test kit?

 

[jacknjill]

yep its still cycling. have you done any research? you cant add anything until the cycle is completed. what are your water levels? diatoms are a normal part of the cycle....

 

[texgirl]

Yes I have a test kit. What should I be testing for?
Thanks,

 

[jacknjill]

whatever the test kit has.
ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, PH, alkilinity, calcium, etc

 

[jacknjill]

in a cycle, you should test every day or every other day. you will see a spike in ammonia, then it will go down and you nitrites will shoot up. then they will go down and your nitrates will go up. you then do a water change to bring them down.

 

[texgirl]

I have the salifert test kit and eveything is passing with them.
The problem is distinguishing between the colors.
How do you do it?

 

[wbilton]

Amonia and nitriyes should be 0, you can do a search on cycling and it will answer any questions you have.

 

[jacknjill]

your cycle might not be kicked off yet.do you have any live rock or live sand? do ytou have a dead shrimp in there to help out the cycle?

 

[texgirl]

Yes,
I have a 100# of live rock. I added 2 cups of live sand with 240# of southdown.
Should I just wait?? What do you think?

 

[jacknjill]

i would say to adda couple of raw uncooked cocktail shrimp. i dont think that your cycle has enough die off for such a big tank to start one.