what are these???

[cubnb79]

pic#1

pic#2 clear globe on inside orange/red color

pic#3 hopefully some feather dusters because they all over this rock

Pic#4 hopefully just some good growth?

 

[slice]

Check out this site
http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker/hitchhiker.shtml
I believe (always subject to correction)
Pic #1 is sponge
Pic #2 can't tell from the pic, refer to the above site...sponge?
Pic #3 feather duster
Pic #4 can't tell what you are referring to, looks like coralline on rocks?

 

[cubnb79]

nice website...on pic#4 mainly the red stuff got few other spots of that on other rocks...pic#2 still have no idea...im a newbie tank only been up since january

 

[cubnb79]

heres something i just noticed growing under rock friend or foe???

 

[cubnb79]

Quote:
Originally Posted by cubnb79 http:///forum/thread/387085/what-are-these#post_3403238
heres something i just noticed growing under rock friend or foe???

talking about the brownish colored things hanging down

 

[1guydude]

sponges!

 

[cubnb79]

good just found one aptasia and sucked that thing out right away

 

[travelerjp98]

all the pictures look like harmless and even beneficial growths! good luck!

 

[cubnb79]

lol thx...that's good because seems like everything so far so good minus my nitrate problem yet to be solved

 

[travelerjp98]

My tank has ALWAYS had a nitrate problem... what are your nitrates right now?

 

[cubnb79]

did water change yesturday and 5 hrs afterwards it read 0ish on my red sea kit...tested it today and its upto 25ppm and i bet you tomorrow it will be more than twice that...seems i get 3 days then its upto 80ppm...now i have yet to get protein skimmer due to lack of funds but i got some nitrogen spounge in there that's only been wet for about a week now

 

[travelerjp98]

it doesn't seem to bad, I think it'll be safe to add basic livestock (damsel, clown) when they become STABLE. Stability is the most impotant, then come the actual parameters imo.

 

[cubnb79]

lol the tank is almost 7 months and running and i have 7 fish in there already...doesnt seem to bother the fish just bothers me...

 

[travelerjp98]

oh... didn't know that!
I wouldn't worry too much.. I have had my tank for 3 years and my nitrtates are more than 100. don't worry bout it.

 

[cubnb79]

Quote:
Originally Posted by travelerjp98 http:///forum/thread/387085/what-are-these#post_3403658
oh... didn't know that!
I wouldn't worry too much.. I have had my tank for 3 years and my nitrtates are more than 100. don't worry bout it.
cool i hope that's the case it was upto 120 when i changed it and dropped clear to zero according to my red sea kit and read 40 on my api which i've read both read high so i should have my seachem kit on saturday according to the tracking so i'll compare the three test and see what happends...

 

[travelerjp98]

I got my seachem kit today! I started a thread under the lighting, equipment, and DIY section... take a look at it to get details, but the results were similar to my API

 

[cubnb79]

wow really no offense but i hope mine doesnt do the same lol my api does read higher than my red sea though...keeping fingers crossed

 

[travelerjp98]

Quote:
Originally Posted by cubnb79 http:///forum/thread/387085/what-are-these#post_3403668
wow really no offense but i hope mine doesnt do the same lol my api does read higher than my red sea though...keeping fingers crossed
no worries! no offense taken!
what do you mean by doesn't do the same? as in, read the same as API or have the awful levels or my tank? LOL!

 

[cubnb79]

lol well both...not that mine are any better but weekly water changes sometimes two are getting old even though i could prob. do them with my eyes closed now...

 

[slice]

I would much prefer threads such as these refer questions to established and thoroughly researched guidelines instead of personal anecdotes that may be very far afield.