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samn691 · 07-05-2006, 02:37 AM

I'll get some pictures of my tanks a little later, a bucket of 11L emptied itself while I wasn't looking, it was filled with old saltwater.

I thought of getting peppermint shrimp, but I wasn't sure if it would get along with my skunk cleaner shrimp. I'm going to try the lemon juice method. I’m not sure how it works though. Are you supposed to douse them with lemon juice while they are in the tank? Wouldn't the lemon juice change the PH and wouldn’t it be adding ammonia(or nitrites/nitrates)?

I have two lights, they are both Power Glo, one is 18"(15W, 18,000K, LUX 55) and the other is 24" (20W, 18,00K, LUX 80). I don’t have a clue of what the LUX and the K mean but they are on the box and I wasn't sure if they are details you wanted to know. I also have another kind of light that I could use, I would need to get a bulb for corals though, it still has the bulb it came with(see photos below). Are my lights good enough, would I need to buy new bulbs or would I need to buy new fixtures altogether?

It makes a while (I don't really remember, maybe a month) since I have the star polyp, it did bounce back, but then it got attacked by fireworms and now its starting to be a little better, its not growing but it does open all it's polyps.

The way I add new corals to my tank is the same way that I use to add fish. I let the bag float until it’s the same temperature as the water in the aquarium (about 10 to 15 mins). I don't add much water at first, (I take a pipette from a test kit to add water to the bag, I use a pipette that has never been used for tests and I don't squirt the water in the bag). I start with one full pipette, I wait about 30 seconds and watch the fish for any signs of added stress due to the fact that I have just added some water. If everything is fine, I add two full pipettes. I wait about five minutes then I add about five full pipettes. I wait five minutes and add more water with a cup, I do this until there is three times more water then it first had. After that I net the fish while its in the bag and place it in the aquarium, I don't try to shake the net to make it go out faster, I wait until it goes out by itself.

Yesterday morning at 3AM I decided to open my aquarium lights to see if I had any creatures that I didn't know about. Guess what, I found some! It was probably a worm. It was gray in colour, it was coming out of my live rock, it was probably looking for food. It was about 2mm in diameter, but it was scared of the light so it started to shrivel up and went back in his hole. I saw two of these, on different rocks. Any idea what they might be?

I have a fireworm problem, I don't really want to control their population, I want to eliminate them completely. Is there a way to do that? All the information I saw on the internet talked about controlling their population, if it is impossible to eliminate them completely I guess I'll settle for control, but in order to do that, I would need to buy a fish and I don't know what fish I could get. I am going to buy one or two tank bred percula clowns so it would have to be compatible with that and it would have to be small enough to fit in my tank.

Could anyone tell me if my tank is big enough for 2 perculas, the fish I have right now, 1 more Green Chromis and which ever fish you could advise me to use for my fireworms?

Could anyone tell me what a refugium is? I think its for biological filtration, but what exactly do you put in it besides caulerpa (I think you put caulerpa in it).

What do protein skimmers remove in your water? I heard that they completely eliminate any trace elements you could have added to the tank in less then 24 hours. Do they make your water clearer by removing the fine particles in the water?

I don't think that I have mentioned that my filtration isn't very good (I think it's not very good, but I might be wrong) I have an Aqua Clear 200 hang-on filter (Aqua Clear 200 is the old name, now I think its Aqua Clear 50) it's made for aquariums from 30 gallons to 50 gallons and it pumps 150 gallons per hour. Is my filtration good enough or do I need to buy something else? Is it something I could build myself? By the way, my aquarium is not on a stand, its directly on the floor, but if my filtration system would need a cabinet, I could build one. I wanted to build one anyway, just never got around to it, to busy with my aquariums lol.

I have more questions then I thought.

07-05-2006, 02:37 AM	#4
samn691 Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 13	I'll get some pictures of my tanks a little later, a bucket of 11L emptied itself while I wasn't looking, it was filled with old saltwater. I thought of getting peppermint shrimp, but I wasn't sure if it would get along with my skunk cleaner shrimp. I'm going to try the lemon juice method. I’m not sure how it works though. Are you supposed to douse them with lemon juice while they are in the tank? Wouldn't the lemon juice change the PH and wouldn’t it be adding ammonia(or nitrites/nitrates)? I have two lights, they are both Power Glo, one is 18"(15W, 18,000K, LUX 55) and the other is 24" (20W, 18,00K, LUX 80). I don’t have a clue of what the LUX and the K mean but they are on the box and I wasn't sure if they are details you wanted to know. I also have another kind of light that I could use, I would need to get a bulb for corals though, it still has the bulb it came with(see photos below). Are my lights good enough, would I need to buy new bulbs or would I need to buy new fixtures altogether? It makes a while (I don't really remember, maybe a month) since I have the star polyp, it did bounce back, but then it got attacked by fireworms and now its starting to be a little better, its not growing but it does open all it's polyps. The way I add new corals to my tank is the same way that I use to add fish. I let the bag float until it’s the same temperature as the water in the aquarium (about 10 to 15 mins). I don't add much water at first, (I take a pipette from a test kit to add water to the bag, I use a pipette that has never been used for tests and I don't squirt the water in the bag). I start with one full pipette, I wait about 30 seconds and watch the fish for any signs of added stress due to the fact that I have just added some water. If everything is fine, I add two full pipettes. I wait about five minutes then I add about five full pipettes. I wait five minutes and add more water with a cup, I do this until there is three times more water then it first had. After that I net the fish while its in the bag and place it in the aquarium, I don't try to shake the net to make it go out faster, I wait until it goes out by itself. Yesterday morning at 3AM I decided to open my aquarium lights to see if I had any creatures that I didn't know about. Guess what, I found some! It was probably a worm. It was gray in colour, it was coming out of my live rock, it was probably looking for food. It was about 2mm in diameter, but it was scared of the light so it started to shrivel up and went back in his hole. I saw two of these, on different rocks. Any idea what they might be? I have a fireworm problem, I don't really want to control their population, I want to eliminate them completely. Is there a way to do that? All the information I saw on the internet talked about controlling their population, if it is impossible to eliminate them completely I guess I'll settle for control, but in order to do that, I would need to buy a fish and I don't know what fish I could get. I am going to buy one or two tank bred percula clowns so it would have to be compatible with that and it would have to be small enough to fit in my tank. Could anyone tell me if my tank is big enough for 2 perculas, the fish I have right now, 1 more Green Chromis and which ever fish you could advise me to use for my fireworms? Could anyone tell me what a refugium is? I think its for biological filtration, but what exactly do you put in it besides caulerpa (I think you put caulerpa in it). What do protein skimmers remove in your water? I heard that they completely eliminate any trace elements you could have added to the tank in less then 24 hours. Do they make your water clearer by removing the fine particles in the water? I don't think that I have mentioned that my filtration isn't very good (I think it's not very good, but I might be wrong) I have an Aqua Clear 200 hang-on filter (Aqua Clear 200 is the old name, now I think its Aqua Clear 50) it's made for aquariums from 30 gallons to 50 gallons and it pumps 150 gallons per hour. Is my filtration good enough or do I need to buy something else? Is it something I could build myself? By the way, my aquarium is not on a stand, its directly on the floor, but if my filtration system would need a cabinet, I could build one. I wanted to build one anyway, just never got around to it, to busy with my aquariums lol. I have more questions then I thought. Last edited by samn691 : 07-05-2006 at 02:40 AM. Reason: I want to put the pictures in a seperate post so that my text isn't streched lenghtwise.