I’m new to reef tanks and was gifted a Biocube 16, and that’s all it took to get me hooked.
After 4 months of slowly building up my live rock, something happened that stumped my Local Fish Store:
Not knowing about dips yet, I added all the rock staring hot in - some with green algae build-up already on - so I pulled my rock out yesterday into my water change buckets and scrubbed some algae off with a clean toothbrush. I also found, and removed, two good sized bristle worms.
When I placed the rocks back in the tank and completed the water change, multiple opens in multiple rocks began ejected HUGE amounts of white, thick... ‘milk’...that filled the entire tank.
The closest my LFS guy could guess was that my water change temp - which, I float in a sink of hot water to get up to temp - was just cool enough to simulate a ‘spring rain’ and caused all the bristle worms still in the rocks to spawn!
...ewwww.
But, as this was only their closest guess, I wondered if anyone else has a better explanation?
my water tested 8-8.2 hp, Ammonia -.05, NO2 was 0 and NO3 -.05, but today showed NO3 climbing.
* On another note, I added a neon dottyback and coral banded shrimp last night to combat the worms - if that’s what it was - and the shrimp’s arms had fallen off through the night, but the dottyback has been a total champ!
Thanks for any input you have and I’m happy to be here!
After 4 months of slowly building up my live rock, something happened that stumped my Local Fish Store:
Not knowing about dips yet, I added all the rock staring hot in - some with green algae build-up already on - so I pulled my rock out yesterday into my water change buckets and scrubbed some algae off with a clean toothbrush. I also found, and removed, two good sized bristle worms.
When I placed the rocks back in the tank and completed the water change, multiple opens in multiple rocks began ejected HUGE amounts of white, thick... ‘milk’...that filled the entire tank.
The closest my LFS guy could guess was that my water change temp - which, I float in a sink of hot water to get up to temp - was just cool enough to simulate a ‘spring rain’ and caused all the bristle worms still in the rocks to spawn!
...ewwww.
But, as this was only their closest guess, I wondered if anyone else has a better explanation?
my water tested 8-8.2 hp, Ammonia -.05, NO2 was 0 and NO3 -.05, but today showed NO3 climbing.
* On another note, I added a neon dottyback and coral banded shrimp last night to combat the worms - if that’s what it was - and the shrimp’s arms had fallen off through the night, but the dottyback has been a total champ!
Thanks for any input you have and I’m happy to be here!