I have a 2 yr old Waterbox that’s been ugly for a while and I want to get things under control. Main issue seems to be two things
1) maze like algae grows on glass
2) snails die. Hermits live fine
Tried adding snails a few times. They become weak, and fall from surfaces and end up sideways and don’t try to correct it. Tried a strawberry conch, loved a few weeks then died. Hermits have no issues.
Livestock - single clownfish since the tanks startup over 2 years ago. Several scarlet hermits and a Halloween hermit.
Tank - 15g Waterbox peninsula
Lighting - ai prime 16hd
Feeding - this is my office tank. Weekdays I feed the clownfish a pinch of small pellets. Maybe 8-10. He gobbles every one up before they even begin to sink. There’s no excess feeding here. I skip weekends.
Filtration - media cup with matrix in space where filter sock would go, couple bio blocks, bag of chemi pure, algae turf scrubber (which did great for about 2 months then stopped growing algae)
Coral - acan colony, 1.5 yrs no issues. Few zoa as well. Had a thriving Cynarina for 6 months, only removed because it was so nice a vendor reached out and made an offer I couldn’t refuse. Other corals started getting algae on plug bases so moved them out before it became a problem for the corals
Coralline algae is everywhere. Clownfish and corals and hermits do fine. This algae is all over the glass and power head mainly. Not really on my rock or shelf’s or sand.
Also had outbreak of aiptasia. I introduced 2 berghia Nudibranch, they eliminated all the aiptasia over a few months.
1) maze like algae grows on glass
2) snails die. Hermits live fine
Tried adding snails a few times. They become weak, and fall from surfaces and end up sideways and don’t try to correct it. Tried a strawberry conch, loved a few weeks then died. Hermits have no issues.
Livestock - single clownfish since the tanks startup over 2 years ago. Several scarlet hermits and a Halloween hermit.
Tank - 15g Waterbox peninsula
Lighting - ai prime 16hd
Feeding - this is my office tank. Weekdays I feed the clownfish a pinch of small pellets. Maybe 8-10. He gobbles every one up before they even begin to sink. There’s no excess feeding here. I skip weekends.
Filtration - media cup with matrix in space where filter sock would go, couple bio blocks, bag of chemi pure, algae turf scrubber (which did great for about 2 months then stopped growing algae)
Coral - acan colony, 1.5 yrs no issues. Few zoa as well. Had a thriving Cynarina for 6 months, only removed because it was so nice a vendor reached out and made an offer I couldn’t refuse. Other corals started getting algae on plug bases so moved them out before it became a problem for the corals
Coralline algae is everywhere. Clownfish and corals and hermits do fine. This algae is all over the glass and power head mainly. Not really on my rock or shelf’s or sand.
Also had outbreak of aiptasia. I introduced 2 berghia Nudibranch, they eliminated all the aiptasia over a few months.