Cycling my tank

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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[nacheetah]

Does the rock go thru a phase of getting brown, almost like a brown algea?  I hope it clears up or is there something that I should do to stop it or get rid of it?

[luvnsalt]

Yes, it does. Diatoms and it will clear up after a couple weeks. Don't panic! You are doing a bare bottom, right? If you had sand it would be all over your sand, too.

[Rico]

If you get a bunch of snails (300 - 500) they will eat it up.  Also UV helps to reduce it.  The brown algae is called diatoms and  is caused by the Silica in the new water and tank setup.  Once the silica is consumed, the diatoms will go away.

Rick

[luvnsalt]

Yah, What Rick said!!!

[angelscrx]

Ditto on that too.   But post pics please I want to see the tank with water in it!

[nacheetah]

We posted pics on Ma look what I built - strictly fish room 3 and all pics have water in the tank but here is a new one taken today and you can even see the diatom (cool! another new word in my saltwater vocab) and possibly 2 black & white damsels and 2 chromies.  We thought we would check to see how they would do and the darn excitement got the best of us.  Those chromies have got to be the toughest fish I've ever seen because we drained the tank to do some modifying and poor things were in about 2 inches of water for a while and I seriously thought we would find them floating but they are still alive and show no signs of stress.

[tyler5g]

Had the same problem with mine when it started up, brown s--t everywhere , but 500 snails later, its beautiful.

[angelscrx]

I like the rock work looks like the fishies will have plenty of swim room.