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75 gallon update

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nekkidrobert
, 02-19-2013 at 09:43 PM (2737 Views)
tank is doing great 2/3 the cycle and the 2 clownfish i have are doing great. So i order a small clean up crew yesterday with about 60 hermit carbs and snails. then the woman come into my fish room and was like i just order u 400 snails. im like ok cool then i find out she ordered nassarius (Ilyanassarius Obsoleta) snail and im like u just order 400 shells because i heard bad things about them. Anyone esle think the same?

Order my skimmer stand from Marc cant wait for it to get here. Next thing on my list is to replace my noisy overflow then ill be set.

Another thing how long sould i leave the blue / white light on? I hear alot of differ times so im confused Thanks if u can help

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  1. cyano's Avatar
    do you have any algae yet? I only ask because if there is more CuC than food than they will starve to death and could cause an ammonia spike which in turn could cause you to get algae blooms causing kind of an endless cycle of life and death. Not trying to scare you just keep an eye on your CuC. I have several nessarius snails in my tank and I have not have had an issue with them, they will clean up a fish death very quickly and come out of the sand like zombies during feeding time.

    Every tank is different for lighting times. I am on a 10 hour light cycle myself but typically 8-12 hours. Too long and you get algae, too short isn't much of an issue unless you have corals.
  2. melev's Avatar
    During the cycle, you don't need to run the lights at all. You don't have anything to keep the algae under control, so you'd be fueling that growth with light for no good reason... in fact it would be detrimental.

    The skimmer stand will be there shortly. Already shipped your way yesterday; you should have gotten an email from Fedex with the tracking information.
  3. nekkidrobert's Avatar
    Yes i did and thanks Melev. ok i was just making sure on the light i run it for about 2 hours right now during the day so i can feed the fish and only thing im going to add is some hermit carbs to eat the food they dont eat since it just sits on the bottom. And for the snails ill try some in my wife's sump since she has nothing it in but live rock and alot of hair algae. Im going to try and post a pic of a red plant thats been growing off her life rock since i cant seem to fins it anywhere to see what it is.
  4. melev's Avatar
    Okay, post those up when you have time.