Need some tips. Love your videos and was looking @ your site. I have a 75gl, planning on putting LR from LFS(I have Dry sand). i was looking at the Live sand activator and Mud you have.Would I be better off to start with a micro organism startup kit?
Firstly, thanks for all these wonderful videos. I am a newbie and following your steps as closely as I can on my new 29g.
My 1st question to you pertains to the coralline algae plate, how do I get that and is it available at ipsf? Next, how do you care for coralline? Do I have to add a special and extensive lighting unit to promote it's growth or is it the addition of calcium supplements and normal lighting will do the trick?
Does anyone know of a method of how to collect them? I'm doing a study. The only method I've used that is partially successful is by taking them up with a pipette (but it appears that they kind of "rupture").
I already have a few hermit crabs I put in the day before the bloom just to move the sand around and my live rock came with some mini stars as stow-aways. I was going to get some snails but I'll wait for a week or so. Thanks =)
BTW, our video entitled "Responsible Rock" was renamed to "Buying Nano Reef Rock" [so folks who want to get started asap can locate a source of rock if they don't make their own.]
That's a great sign and it's not unusual. Often we sea clean sand in the morning and by afternoon there are visible streaks of diatoms! Let them bloom for 7-10 days before adding cleaners. Establishing these diatoms is critically important to everything that happens later:)
my bloom started today and Im shocked at how fast it happened. When I tuned the light on when I got home from work there was just a little bit of brown and now 6 hours later there is a lot more everywhere!
Your tank is fine -- it's already loaded with bacteria. Now add grazers and detritivores to handle the diatoms. When they've done that, add small, easy corals very gradually. Wait until your photosynthetic organisms are well established before adding fishes, and make sure the biomass of producers (photosynthesizers) far exceeds that of the consumers (fishes and non-photosynthetic inverts). [We're assuming this is to be a reef tank, not a fish tank or FOWLR.]
I cant get my tank to cycle, ammonia just won't spike. i've tried everything short of chemicals and fish. Ive had two big diatom blooms, but no nitrate/nitrite spikes at all, NH3 has only spiked to .25 ppm.
90 gallon tank...
You think this is enough to get the bio filter going?
Yes, please watch Video #15 in this series. The diatom bloom is an important part of starting a new reef tank. They are controlled by adding a pack of grazing snails and sandbed detritivores. See also our video called "Nano Reef Super Snail" for more info.
no he sounds like collin hanks, tom hanks/ kid
markrose21 6 days ago
You sound like someone famous... Tom Hanks? .... :P you do sound like him!...
iMilkshake2000 1 month ago
@iMilkshake2000 I am someone famous! And who is this Hanks character that sounds like me??
ipsfdotcom 1 month ago
Were can I get some coralite plating
MrBelly209 3 months ago
great channel :D
kimikozembower 8 months ago
it seems like these diatoms only like to grow on calcium rich rocks.
300pzl 1 year ago
Need some tips. Love your videos and was looking @ your site. I have a 75gl, planning on putting LR from LFS(I have Dry sand). i was looking at the Live sand activator and Mud you have.Would I be better off to start with a micro organism startup kit?
lexandra101 1 year ago
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lexandra101 1 year ago
Does it speed up the proses by placing the tank in the sun?
AntonyTrickrider 1 year ago
@AntonyTrickrider it's not necessary, but 4 watts per gal PC lighting works fine
ipsfdotcom 1 year ago
I cant find the nano start kit on your site?
defiythelie 1 year ago
does diatom algea eventually go away??
dylandabomb230 2 years ago
ive got some of these on my rock. my tank its been running for about a month how do i get rid of them and under control
ThunderTundra1011 2 years ago
Me again. I just came across your "Growing Great Coralline Algae
" video and webpage. You're awesome! I have all the info I need. Thanks again!
kvnfng 2 years ago
Firstly, thanks for all these wonderful videos. I am a newbie and following your steps as closely as I can on my new 29g.
My 1st question to you pertains to the coralline algae plate, how do I get that and is it available at ipsf? Next, how do you care for coralline? Do I have to add a special and extensive lighting unit to promote it's growth or is it the addition of calcium supplements and normal lighting will do the trick?
Thanks!
kvnfng 2 years ago
Aloha to all -- There's a contest running right now on our Channel Page, with $100 in free livestock to be given away (4/16/09).
ipsfdotcom 2 years ago
Does anyone know of a method of how to collect them? I'm doing a study. The only method I've used that is partially successful is by taking them up with a pipette (but it appears that they kind of "rupture").
girolle01 2 years ago
Try using a plastic turkey baster -- it has a larger bore than a pipette and it's softer.
ipsfdotcom 2 years ago
I already have a few hermit crabs I put in the day before the bloom just to move the sand around and my live rock came with some mini stars as stow-aways. I was going to get some snails but I'll wait for a week or so. Thanks =)
Mrsiepel 2 years ago
BTW, our video entitled "Responsible Rock" was renamed to "Buying Nano Reef Rock" [so folks who want to get started asap can locate a source of rock if they don't make their own.]
ipsfdotcom 2 years ago
That's a great sign and it's not unusual. Often we sea clean sand in the morning and by afternoon there are visible streaks of diatoms! Let them bloom for 7-10 days before adding cleaners. Establishing these diatoms is critically important to everything that happens later:)
ipsfdotcom 2 years ago
my bloom started today and Im shocked at how fast it happened. When I tuned the light on when I got home from work there was just a little bit of brown and now 6 hours later there is a lot more everywhere!
Mrsiepel 2 years ago
Your tank is fine -- it's already loaded with bacteria. Now add grazers and detritivores to handle the diatoms. When they've done that, add small, easy corals very gradually. Wait until your photosynthetic organisms are well established before adding fishes, and make sure the biomass of producers (photosynthesizers) far exceeds that of the consumers (fishes and non-photosynthetic inverts). [We're assuming this is to be a reef tank, not a fish tank or FOWLR.]
ipsfdotcom 3 years ago
I cant get my tank to cycle, ammonia just won't spike. i've tried everything short of chemicals and fish. Ive had two big diatom blooms, but no nitrate/nitrite spikes at all, NH3 has only spiked to .25 ppm.
90 gallon tank...
You think this is enough to get the bio filter going?
OttoVonBacon 3 years ago
Yes, please watch Video #15 in this series. The diatom bloom is an important part of starting a new reef tank. They are controlled by adding a pack of grazing snails and sandbed detritivores. See also our video called "Nano Reef Super Snail" for more info.
ipsfdotcom 3 years ago
i have the save problem.. i hate these brown diatoms:S do you have any idea to cure the tank??
Marcika1988 3 years ago