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crazysilverwolf

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Hi as above this may be a problem, been away for the weekend and a well minded family member has been a bought a few fish an sea urchin and some more cuc, this tank has had great water conditions, now i'm worried that the bio load may be too high for a new tank.

18 days old. no ammonia, no nitrite and no nitrate, it does have some background phosphate 1ppm

Contents of tank now,
Two clown fish
one purple firefish
one long spined black urchin
two cleaner shrimp
one camel shrimp
one turbo snail
six nassarius snails
2 blue legged hermit crabs

am i going to be ok?
 
Keep a close eye on stats are the fish small ?

2 things Black urchin might be a bit big for the tank and Camel shrimps are known to eat polps.
 
yeah, id test a lot more than usual. have a water change mixed and ready just incase. the shimps and CUC hardly add any bio load. i think it may end up being ok. but take the camel shrimp back as like morri said, they eat coral
 
nice gesture but I bet you wish they hadn;t bothered. as the guyssaid just keep an eye on stats and react accordingly with water changes etc
 
Cheers guys the shrimp will have to go back, i do want corols in the tank. what is the growth rate on this urchin? missus says she likes him. :S
stats on tank still good, have water change ready to go.

fingers crossed.
 
the tank is lovely and stable still, barely perceptable levels of ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. there is still 1ppm of phosphate which i can't seem to reduce

There is a slight amendment to my stocking levels as i noticed a beadlet anemone monday, and i've just found a 5mm baby one today, help no idea what to feed them, pardon me for a bit just going to k*** my mate for giving me more problems, best of intentions aside :crazy:

He has promised me that there is nothing else in my tank and that he won't get anything else. :unsure:
 

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Bedlets are not ideal in a tropical marine tank they are collected from the shores off the uk and spread like mad will sting corals and fish best bet is to remove them :(
 
What are you doing to try and remove phosphate? 1ppm is high and wouldn't call this anywhere near background.

Morri said:
Bedlets are not ideal in a tropical marine tank they are collected from the shores off the uk and spread like mad will sting corals and fish best bet is to remove them :(
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Spread like mad? I thought problems were because of putting them in tropical water (unlike our cold saltwater) they would die off and pollute the water rather than spread.

Though I am confused how they just found this in their tank... friend decided to add it without their knowledge?
 
In a lower temp they do spread like mad, but yes, DrS is right, in a higher temp they could die and pollute the tank - put it back where it should be in a nice little rock pool :good:

Seffie x
 
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