First of all thanks everyone for all of the great advise. I started my first reef this May and wanted to share some before/after pics. My question is I am growing a lot of seaweed. The stuff grows everywhere, and I cut it back about once a month. My local LFS told me it will help absorb Nitrates? I have never had any Nitrate probs, so I am afraid to cut it all down. Kinda looks ugly, but I can deal with that if it is beneficial.
Question about seaweed and some pics
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It looks like Sargasum to me. It, like any plant, will consume nutrients, which is a good thing. Some fish may even like to eat it, like tangs. I had this is my first tank, a 75G. I didn't like it and removed it. Later, I wished I had kept it around a bit longer to help the tank get past the alae outbreaks that are common for new tanks.
Nice looking tank, BTW.
Louey
Nice looking tank, BTW.
Louey
Here is a closer pic. of the seaweed. My anemone climbed in it about a week ago and just stayed there! Is that normal? I have been keeping the anemone for about 2 months and can't seem to figure it out. The only reason I bought it was to keep my clown out of my little torch coral(I thought the clown was going to whip it to death)
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Bristleworms usually become a "problem" when a inexperienced aquarist finds one eating a dead or dying animal and thinks that the worm killed it. Then they nuke their tank trying to kill all the bristle worms.
As for the anemone, I think it might be trying to get more light since the algae is really high up.
And for the ugliness of the seaweed: Usually people keep this sort of thing in the sump where they do not have to see it. However, you could create a interesting 'biotope' tank and try to make the seaweed an important part of the artistic concept.
As for the anemone, I think it might be trying to get more light since the algae is really high up.
And for the ugliness of the seaweed: Usually people keep this sort of thing in the sump where they do not have to see it. However, you could create a interesting 'biotope' tank and try to make the seaweed an important part of the artistic concept.
So what kind of algae is it looking for?? Any care suggestions for the anemone would be appreciated. Last month I used DT's live phytoplankton until I ran out. I bought some stuff by cora-life called invert smorgasboard. I tried to keep an anemone a few months back but it died(it may have been sick for the start). This one seems to be doing well but I have only had it about 6 weeks.
iseeweed":12hbcbtt said:
The anemone wants to eat meaty food, it doesn't care one bit for the DTs or liquid coral food. It is up on the algae to get the best lighting (and maybe flow too) but being on the sargassum algae is a coincidence I think, it would probably have still chosen that spot if it was bare rock.
Try mysis shrimp, or buy some raw table shrimp and chop into small pieces, be sure it is the same temp as your tank water when you feed it. I put the frozen food in a little cup of tank water, let it sit until nice and thawed, and then either suck the food up in a turkey baster and very gently blow it into the tentacles, or use a long pair of hemostats (or your fave aquarium "grabby tool") and pick up the food to deposit it in the tentacles.
FWIW, I have occasionally had that sargassum algae show up when i get new rock, it gorws real nice and then disappears in six months. So enjoy it while you have it, or maybe it will last for you. But I like it.
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