My nano reef

[MinPhase]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

If you are checking the salinity with an hydrometer, get a good refractometer before you put any livestock in there. Because hydrometer are often way off and you could lose livestock from the wrong salinity.

A good refractometer cost around 25$ brand new on ebay.

I agree that swing needle hydrometers are useless but I think you could get by with a floating hydrometer.

[Skimmerking]

that is a nice looking 10 gal with the rock. love the aqua scape. As long as you have cycled rock and you dont get the die off you can replace all the water. I have done this and SO has Doug who is a Moderator on here. along the levels are all normal and nothing is out to lunch.

[canadianbudz604]

So I've stocked some things in the tank:

3x hermit crabs
2x turbo snails (lazy bastards)
1x cleaner shrimp (just molted)
1x bangalli cardinal
3x small kenya trees
2x brown and orange zoas
1x green long tentacle polyps
1x really nice frogspawn
1x bumblebee snail (hitch hiker)
1x Strawberry anenome (hitch hiker)

Now the problems.... there is some sort of white fuzz growing underneath one of my live rocks... kinda looks like some sort of mold?!?! and green hair algea is starting to grow like crazy.... fat a$$ snails arent eating any of it and the 3 little hermits cant keep up. Water tests are as follows

PH: 8.2, NITRITES: 0 ppm, AMMONIA 0ppm, NITRATES: 0ppm, PHOS: 0ppm, CALCIUM 395ppm

Water is testing all clean, I need to give a quick vacumn on the next water change. Any tips for getting rid of the sh!t green hair algea? Also what do u guys think of the tank so far?