Newbie questions

mike31154 · #1 06-19-2013, 01:30 PM

I wouldn't worry too much about the skimmer. You say there's no livestock yet, only rockwork, so there's probably not much left to skim after it removed the stuff stirred up from moving the tank.

Craigdillman · #2 06-19-2013, 02:37 PM

are the white things pods? if you look real close they could be.

pinkreef · #3 06-19-2013, 03:05 PM

nice if you have pods already, if you watch them closely you will see them move around

asylumdown · #4 06-19-2013, 07:56 PM

Is there only one aiptasia? If so, do yourself a giant favour and remove the entire rock it's on. Then blow torch the hell out of the aiptasia in it's hiding hole until there is literally nothing moist left where it was attached.

Once the aiptasia starts to spread to other rocks (and it will do so VERY quickly) your options for eradicating them completely dwindle rapidly.

mikeo2 · #5 06-19-2013, 11:17 PM

Awesome, thanks for the info

mikeo2 · #6 06-24-2013, 03:13 AM

Now just out of nowhere I have this real deep red/burgundy algae looking stuff to grow. What should I do about it?

HaZRaTTy · #7 06-24-2013, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by mikeo2

Now just out of nowhere I have this real deep red/burgundy algae looking stuff to grow. What should I do about it?

Just vaccuum it up with a gravel vac, If you're not using RO/DI water its quite common. I find that I have sometimes have small blooms when it rains a tonne and in the spring due to run off and excess nutrients in the tap water.