Greg's 75g

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Ginu

Too bad for the hare and its good you got the little bugger.

I'm just in the process of upgrading my 34 AIO cube to a 75g and boy does it take forever to fill this thing up with water...
Also if you can try a strawberry top hat snail for algae

I have a half dozen Astrea snails. Aren't they the same ?
I also have a half dozen Turbos

[Ginu]

Originally Posted by Bblinks

Glad you caught the little bugger. I will give that contraption a try this weekend see if I'll get lucky and catch a crab or two myself.

Glad you like the green birdsnest, there will be more coming your way.

I have to agree, the birds-nest looks good. I had a frag which was doing quite well and while on vacation something knocked it off and it ended up in the pistols cave.... Now im left with a 1cm branch with 10 polips from the salvaging process...
I am also very curios to see what else the pistol might hide in his cave under the rocks as he seems to be quite the pack-rat.

Originally Posted by gregzz4

I have a half dozen Astrea snails. Aren't they the same ?
I also have a half dozen Turbos

Well they are similar but the top hat snails grow much larger and have a huge algae appetite. My 9 astreas were not able to compete with one top hat snail as the astreas would eat algae for a day and sleep for the next two weeks which is obviously not enough to keep the tank clean.
The one disadvantage about the top hats is the size.... they tend to knock corals down if they are not glued.

With that being said one top hat is keeping the tank algae free and I dont have any experience with the turbo snails as JL always had bad batches of them.

[Enigma]

That is one ugly crab! Glad to see that you caught it.

[FishyFishy!]

Yeah that thing is nasty. Was it a Gorilla Crab or something?

EDIT: Now that I actually look at it, I'm not sure thats a Gorilla crab. But an Ugly SOB none the less.

[gregzz4]

Ya, not a Gorilla
It was hairy, but not tarantula hairy

He met his new buddy this afternoon



I figured it's only fair, since he ate the sea hare alive

I grabbed a few Strawberries while I was there ... can't hurt

[gregzz4]

Did some algae scrubbin' tonight
I turned off the return and hooked up an XP2, then I went to town with brushes
This is what I am dealing with



And after a couple hours of scrubbing and filtering



I made a couple accidental green birdsnest frags - clumsy

Next weekend I will start transferring the first fishies from QT
I'm still trying to get the Bangaii to eat pellets, but the Clown and PJs love them, so they get to go into the DT first

[lockrookie]

try peroxide dosing for the algea may help you