You have to remember you just added a bunch of stuff to your tank everything will have a tendency to spike due to stress and possible loss of some inverts personally I would give it a few days watch your fish and coral and inverts for changes and re-evaluate in a few days.


Patience is the key and waiting is the hardest thing to do.

Issue started before adding fish and stuff tho, it seems nitrite will drop to zero. But if i do a 20-25% wc the next day nitrite is back up to .25-.50

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http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14...e7a418295d.jpg it seems everythings doing good, except im starting to see brown algea. http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14...a1ed79524b.jpg
Thats appeared over night since adding the stock yesterday. Ammo 0 nitrite 0 and nitrate 5-10

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That sir appears to be a diatom bloom nothing major to be worried about in a new tank everytime you add several critters at once you will get the bloom it will cycle its way through

Is it possible to have to much clean up crew? Haha i was debateing adding more. I currently have the 50 dollar cuc package from j&l. Sorry if ur not familiar haha

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Yes it is very possible. Snails starve and pollute the tank and hermit crabs will attack snails if there is a lack of food.

Well then! Good to know haha is there a general rule of thumb for cuc? Or just whatever works type thing lol

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Short answer is no. It depends on what you keep, feed, maintenance habits,etc. there are stores that sell packages for certain sized tanks but they are usually pretty excessive. I would see if what you have now does the trick after a couple weeks. If you are getting dead snails or empty shells your crew is probably too big, if they don't seem to be able to keep up then add a few more snails or hermit crabs. Also research the snails as certain ones take care of certain areas such as some sift sand while others clean rocks. Get the type that your tank seems to be lacking in. My cleaner shrimp is really good at grabbing all the excess food that the fishes miss and I recommend one for this reason but are helpful to the fish and very entertaining as well. Serpent or brittle stars are good at getting under the rocks to clean (don't get a green brittle star as they can be predatory). I would also avoid sand sifting star fish as they need an established sand bed and usually starve in newer or small tanks.

Nothing new but tank is doing great!! Some weird things went on with the pipe organ last night but other then that im exteremly happy :)
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Brittle stars or bristle worms.. Have been told both. Im leaning towards stars but found some similiar looking b worms on google. Have never actually seen a full one come out of the coral so i cant say 100% what they are. Whatever it is. Theres probably 5-10 in there! They just poke what looks like legs out of the coral in random places. Never seen anywhere else in tank.

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