Chaeto Dying, Diatoms and Green hair taking over?, uh oh...

[Xenoch88]

ok, so toss the chaeto (can get more at the LFS locally or a local reefer may have some).

I am using tap water (all that is available at the moment, getting ROi shortly from school).

I was hoping that the Chaeto would be able to out compete most of those, and for the cleaning crew, right now I have a few astrea snails and a couple hermit crabs, getting more next weekend when a friend of mine returns from a vancouver trip.

Here is the list of what I will be getting, do you think this will be enough and will do well?

Display:

2 Bumble Bee snails
2 Cerith
4 Nassarius
1 Red legged hermit

Refugium/Sump

(refugium section with sand and rock approx 2-3 gallon):
2 nassarius
2 Astrea
2 Blue legged hermits

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Xenoch88

ok, so toss the chaeto (can get more at the LFS locally or a local reefer may have some).

I am using tap water (all that is available at the moment, getting ROi shortly from school).

I was hoping that the Chaeto would be able to out compete most of those, and for the cleaning crew, right now I have a few astrea snails and a couple hermit crabs, getting more next weekend when a friend of mine returns from a vancouver trip.

Here is the list of what I will be getting, do you think this will be enough and will do well?

Display:

2 Bumble Bee snails
2 Cerith
4 Nassarius
1 Red legged hermit

Refugium/Sump

(refugium section with sand and rock approx 2-3 gallon):
2 nassarius
2 Astrea
2 Blue legged hermits

bumblebee snails are not reef safe so take caution if you are going to add them.

also its def good that you are ading a fuge it helps with pod reproduction and nutrient export but if you want to eliminate hair algae you have to find the cause of nutrients in your tank or it will never go away.

[Xenoch88]

Just took the bumble bes off the list. Thanks

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Xenoch88

Just took the bumble bes off the list. Thanks

anytime thats what were here for gooduck and cheers)

[MKLKT]

I've found cerith snails to be pretty darn good, they don't die by falling over from what I've seen. (Astrea snails and turbos love to do this.) A conch or sand sifting star is going to be a lot better at cleaning sand than Nassarius snails will unless you have a large number.

[Xenoch88]

I am thinkin 5, and the others, would they fit in a 10 gallon?