thisissimple;4702352; said:
add an astrea snail or 3, they love that diatom stuff. Korallias are good. Wait on fish,
O ok, Ill have to pick some of the snails up today! Will they eat off the
sand though? That is where most of diatom is
.
As for the rest of my tank, ammonia is still at the same level. Pushing two weeks now and I know that cycling a salt water tank takes some time, but should I start to worry that Im doing something wrong? I do feel like I'm being paranoid, but when I see the diatom everywhere it makes me think that I am doing something wrong and that the tank may never cycle
. I am going to pick up a
http://www.petmountain.com/show_product/11442-512994/?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=datafeed&utm_term=11442-512994 and hopefully that will get some better circulation into the bottom front of my tank.
I know it would be bad, but I feel like I should do a water change and that it would take care of the diatom. Do you guys think I should just keep waiting it out? I will post some pictures of my tank here in a little bit so you guys can see the whole set up.
Ok, that was a lot of stuff, but here is whats in my tank now.
- Roughly 10lbs of LR.
-15 lb of live sand. Sand bed is about 2-4 inches deep.
- 1 bag of Chemi-pure, Filter floss on top and bottom of it.
- Salinity is ok and temp is at 80.
- 3 Blue leg hermit crab. Doing a decent job for their size.