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04-30-2008, 12:55 AM
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Will try to get some of the snail. Still haven't decided on the hermits.
Another newbie question. Now that my live rock that I have in the tank has gone through the brown stage, it is starting to become green. a light bright green. Is this the early stages of coraline algae growth? Is it some sort of pest algae? Should I get rid of it (scrub it off) or keep it? 
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04-30-2008, 09:11 PM
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Patience, Patience, Patience.
The longer you let the new reef sort itself out the less manhandling it will need in the future. I JUST finished cycling a month or so ago in one of my tanks and I was very tempted to try and speed things up by messing around with the different algae blooms and making it look nice and neat but I refrained and now the thing is crystal clear and all natural. I DID siphon off any detritus and crap that was obviously crap during water changes and when I had a MONSTER cyano outbreak I siphoned off the stuff that was loose but other than that I completely left it to its own devices and monitered the changes in paramaters and what obvious (or not so obvious) effects those changes had in my tank. Now I have an arsenal of knowledge specific to the microcosm I have created and one very clear, algae free reef. (anyone else find it ironic how close those two words are???free/reef). 
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04-30-2008, 10:43 PM
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Agreed paitience is the key. i am new as well started my first reef whenever my ticker says and i added LS after only 2 weeks of cycling. all survived except 2 pj cards and that was due to my negligence. i stired the sand bed letting nitrates out. only a 34G so it hurt. but when my increadibly bad cyno cycle (could only rid by douing a blackout) ended my rock did go this green as well. now 3-4 monthes later mytank looks awsome.
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05-01-2008, 01:01 AM
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Put one or two snails in your tank as that is the maximum the size of your tank will allow as there will be insufficient food for them and they will die and pollute your tank.
Many reefers think that the hermits are killing them but they starve to death and the hermits eat their remains. Hermits are cool but will eat the tiny critters that your coral and some small fish also eat. One will do no harm though.
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