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In general when you set up a tank... it will go gold/brown for a few weeks... then it will go green for a few weeks... then it will clear up... then it will start to go purple.
Best thing you can do when setting up a tank is to leave it alone for a couple months.
 
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Originally posted by jeepnmatt jeepnmatt wrote:

 
Okay for some reason I can't post the big pictures I took, anyone know how to make them smaller sized?  :)
 


Just use photobucket.com - it's free and will resize huge pictures for you automatically unless you specify otherwise.
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Jeepnmatt I use photo bucket too or this just copy the file number and post in in your message and it does it there too!

http://zip-zero.com/wmas/imageUpload.php
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Here are the pics of what I'm talking about.
 
 
 
 


Edited by jeepnmatt - August 01 2009 at 2:40am
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It looks like things are coming along just fine.
 
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Okay I went out of town for 3 days and came home tonight.  First I had one dead fish, one of the damsels.  Not sure why he died as I will explain below my water levels are great.  The other 2 damsels are swimming around lovin live, so not sure what happened there.  Now on to the green stuff.....The green stuff is now like 3" long per strand.  I've concluded its hair algae.  I went to the LFS and they recommended turbo snails, they warned me they can knock stuff over, but at this point I just have the main rock so not too worried.  I put 6 of them in there, as well as 2 crabs.  Think this will get it taken care of?  I also had them test the water, and they said everything was excellent.  They told me they could tell it was a young tank, but no nitrates, nitrite, ammonia levels good, all looked good. 
One more thing, they recommended a long spine sea urchin.  Is this a good recommendation?  In all honesty I'd love to get one as once in Hawaii my mom thought she'd pick one up and needless to say she won't do that again, so I'd love to have one as a conversation piece, and I think they are way cool looking. 
 
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Urchins eat coralline algae. The urchin could starve to death in 3-4 months because the rock has very little coralline algae.
 
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