BioCube 29

Tine · #1 04-29-2009, 03:32 PM

[So what are planning on putting in your wee box.....of glass?]

Well, the more I read, the more I want, would need a 500g to house all I would like. I love the pics that others have posted, but they create such envy!

A mixed tank, me thinks, as much as I can get away with, safely!

Can you help with the ammonia question?

Christine

fishytime · #2 04-29-2009, 04:30 PM

Raw table shrimp should def kick start the process....or you could ghost feed the tank with mysis. Either way just make sure your Ammonia and nitrites are zero and your nitrates are say less than 10 before you add anything....and add slowly.

Tine · #3 05-06-2009, 03:42 PM

Our tank is doing very well, a couple of days after the raw shrimp was added, we had a spike in ammonia, now it is returned to zero. We will not be adding the cuc until we get back from holidays at the end of May.
However we have a strange hitch hiker, it finally came out of the hole it was hiding this morning, it appears to be a brown worm (slug) about an inch plus long, 1/4 wide, when it was hiding it would extend branched tentacles.
Can someone give me an idea what it is, please? Tried to get a photo but by the time I got my camera it was gone!

Snaz · #4 05-06-2009, 06:02 PM

Here is a nice resource for Identifing hitch hikers:
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchodds.html

Scroll down to SYNAPTID SEA CUCUMBER (medussa worms) I think that is what you have.

Tine · #5 05-07-2009, 01:07 AM

I looked at the cucumbers, but the one in the tank has finer and branched tentacles.

Snaz · #6 05-07-2009, 05:18 AM

Like this?
http://www.divegallery.com/sea_cucumber.htm

Myka · #7 05-07-2009, 05:34 AM

Congrats on your first tank! Welcome to the addiction! Err, hobby!

Try Googling "spaghetti worm" for your critter ID. They come in reddish, brownish, cream, etc.