Tankster's 40g Mantuary

[Tom@HaslettMI]

Nice update! What species of shrimp and goby did you get?

Tom

[Tankster]

Nice update! What species of shrimp and goby did you get?

Tom

Yellow watchman and tiger pistol.

[Tankster]

Did you ever try the peroxide dip?

Not sure what all you want to keep, but might be able to come up with a few frags for you.

I did dip the rock in peroxide, think the flat worms were already nuked. Had to treat a few aptasia.

Want to add some duncans, ricordia, maybe some gsp, neon toadstool, zoas and mushrooms.

[jimsflies]

I did dip the rock in peroxide, think the flat worms were already nuked. Had to treat a few aptasia.

Want to add some duncans, ricordia, maybe some gsp, neon toadstool, zoas and mushrooms.

I can get a neon toad going for you. I have a small piece of GSP too.

[Tankster]

I can get a neon toad going for you. I have a small piece of GSP too.

Sounds good. Thanks!

[Tankster]

Starting to get some algae, anyone know what type this is?

[Sir Patrick]

Looks like green coraline algea, usually grows in higher nitrate tanks, or during the first year of tank maturity. Does it grow on the glass too?

[Tankster]

Looks like green coraline algea, usually grows in higher nitrate tanks, or during the first year of tank maturity. Does it grow on the glass too?

Not getting much algae on the glass, hardly ever needs cleaning.

[Sir Patrick]

I would guess its feeding off bound phosphates in the rock. My rockwork did much the same, before it started into the nicer purples. Some of my "dirtier" rock sprung algea, till the clean up crew took care of it, but the cleaner rock quickly went from green to purple in the first 4 months of tank maturity.

Gotta love the "ugly" stage of reef keeping.

[MizTanks]

I can't get NO kind of algae to grow on my rock. Over a year old an still no Coralline.