I was looking in my tank the other day and saw a strange silver thing, looked like a cross between a slug and a snail, looked it up and found out its called a stomatella, groovy never seen one before! Anyway its supposed to be all good so I'm happy and have left him to get on with it.
Last night I was up gaming late (pretty sad for someone my age), I went and had a look through the tank and could see hundreds of small creatures about 2mm long with what looked like 2 x antenna type things, yep you probably know that these are copepods
Now ordinarily you may not get excited, I am though and I'll tell you why.... You see I'm housing a mandarin which I thought had munched its way through all the pods which is why I set up the poor mans refugium. The refugium must be working now and is sustaining more than enough pods for the hungry mandarin!!
The nitrates are down to apporx 25ppm now so whilst not great, they are on a downwards trend. Some of this is due to the tank maturing whilst the rest is possibly down to the bio load?
Around the pumps, I'm getting a fair bit of brown algae, this algae is brown-gray and looks like thin hair and is about 3/4cm long, any ideas? I've spoken to my friend and he experienced this in the early days of his setup, the tang & blenny like it!... My phosphates are at 0.03ppm.
