Recent content by keithboylan

Okay its been over a month since I last posted in the mean time I have done a couple of water changes and added very little stock current stock list is as follows 2 x Amphiprion ocellaris 2 x Cleaner Shrimp 4 x Red Hermit Crab 4 x Blue Hermit Crab 6 x Turbo Snails 1 x Emerald Crab 1 x Small...

This is an update on water parameters waiting for nitrite to fall now before doing a water change then add the CUC I was thinking on adding 6 Nassarius snails 6 Astrea Turbo snails 3 Blue Knuckle hermit 3 Red leg hermit 1 Emerald crab Ammonia 0 ppm Nitrite 4 ppm Nitrate 100ppm

The tank has being running for a week since the above pic was taken and the Salifert water tests have returned results of Ammonia 1.5 ppm Nitrite 4 ppm Nitrate 100ppm

Tanks BigC

Can anybody tell me of a good site that will sell some CUC stock online and ship Ireland

Hi Steel could you tell me the location of the Members Photo section as I was trying to find but had no luck Cheers Keith

How did you solve the problem i currently have turned off my lights in the sump and within 48 hours it had gone tried same in main tank but no luck so today i turned off the main tank lights and will leave a while longer had this before and left lights off for nearly 2 months but that time i had...

I dont believe that this is cayno as I was reading in Julian Sprung book Algae that cayno is slow at producing and this stuff in my tank if removed will over night cover everything again

I nave been using Salifert test kits on my main tank and thought I would try them on the nano and found different results listed below I believe Salifert is better so Ill remain using them instead of thr API kit Ammonia 1.5 ppm Nitrate 50 ppm Nitrite 4 ppm Phosphate...

It was producing bubbles what you see in pic 3 is what is left of some star polyps

The water parameters for today are Ammonia above 8 ppm Nitrate 10 ppm Phosphate 0.25 ppm Calcium 450 ppm Alkalinity 19 dKH As with all new tanks the only thing that happens in the first week is the change in water parameters Ill look at the LFS stocking list soon and from what he has I will...

I am looking at a LED light on nanocustoms.com only waiting on a reply back to see if it will work with european 220V power looks good http://www.nanocustoms.com/product_info.ph...;products_id=19

Hi Chris I just browsed over your post and did not not notice if anyone mentioned Steelheair has a post in the nano section called FAQ section for nano tanks truly worth a read will answer a lot of your questions also explains alot

Here are some pics note how the corals are this is as close I can focus its not as bad as it was but still not going any suggestions

The liverock in my tank have been covered in a brown smear how can I tell if its brown smear alge, diatoms or caynobacteria my water in the tank has well matured as its 3 years running parameters are good nitrate 0 phosphate 0 alkalinity 9 calcium 450 magnesium 1400 ph 8.2 salinity 1.026 all...