Yoshi's Set Up!! **R.I.P. Yoshi**

[xrayjeeper83]

I would keep Bacon at around the same temp as seven but the thermo i got isnt program able

[goldielocke76]

Thanks all! =) lol salinity is about 1.021-1.0215 so I have a bit more work to do when I have to add water next. Oh well, at least things are stabling out. Definitely interesting to watch the changes in the rocks.

[goldielocke76]

So, ammonia and nitrites are both at 0 today. SG is at 1.0215-1.022 (really right in between). I was about to type "my only real problem is is that my temperature I think is too high" but I just pulled the thermometer to test it, and I think I got a faulty thermometer >< it's been reading 84.5 f the last two days, but the water is cold, and my heater isn't that high. Also, it's not 95 f in my house LOL. So I am going to assume, but I don't know, that the temp is about 77.5 or so, since it's been stable at that temp for the last week and a half.


What is my next step? Do I keep testing the water for another week to make sure it stays at 0 for both ammonia and nitrites? I am not sure what to do at this point. Sorry guys.

[bertie 83]

Yes keep an eye if it remains stable you should be good to go

[sevenyearnight]

+1

[J-P]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQgJ5h4X ... ture=share <--- WTF?! Seriously?

LOL!! Actually I liked that vid. Thanks for the share!

The crabs were in Shanghai, but the bananas were in Japan. They said that there is a 100% guarantee that the crabs are live, and if one is dead you get 3x your money back. Buddy loads 100 crabs a day and makes about $400! The lady with the bananas, in 3 months, sold 5000 bananas @ about $1.50 each (or $2500 per month).

The numbers are crazier than the videos!

I've got to show my wife this one!

Geeze the stuff people will buy!

[goldielocke76]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQgJ5h4X ... ture=share <--- WTF?! Seriously?

LOL!! Actually I liked that vid. Thanks for the share!

The crabs were in Shanghai, but the bananas were in Japan. They said that there is a 100% guarantee that the crabs are live, and if one is dead you get 3x your money back. Buddy loads 100 crabs a day and makes about $400! The lady with the bananas, in 3 months, sold 5000 bananas @ about $1.50 each (or $2500 per month).

The numbers are crazier than the videos!

I've got to show my wife this one!

Geeze the stuff people will buy!

That's interesting LOL. I was just thinking of the poor crabs haha. Guarantee'd live huh? Interesting....

On another note, I have this interesting, rust colored fuzz (for lack of a better description) growing all over the rocks and some of the shells. Not sure if I can get a great pic, but I can try. I just wanted to know if this was normal, and if it was a good "fuzz" or not lol. Thanks guys =)

[xrayjeeper83]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQgJ5h4X ... ture=share <--- WTF?! Seriously?

I see some awesome practical jokes with that idea

[puffpaddy]

I would say diatoms. Take a turkey baster and blow it off and let the filter take care of it. Is all the water in your tank RO/DI water?

[goldielocke76]

I would say diatoms. Take a turkey baster and blow it off and let the filter take care of it. Is all the water in your tank RO/DI water?

Yup. A total water volume of 45 gallons. You were right about the stores....we found a store that if you prepay $20, you get 160 gallons. To me it's "for free" but it comes out to be like, $.14 cents a gallon. It's awesome LoL.

So, I am a few days shy of my two weeks, but I have been testing twice daily since Monday, so I went out and got two emerald crabs and two hermits....Think they are called brown clawed crabs. I looked at so many crabs today that I only know that I got two of the cheapest ones I could find LoL. I don't need to spend $20 on a potential meal for my future little Yoshi haha. The guy did give me 8 more shells so the crabs would have homes to grow into, and he took all of these out of their established saltwater tanks! ^.^ lots of coraline on them, and I found that I even had a baby starfish hitchhiker on one. Think I have a total of about 18 (20 if you count the two on the hermits themselves) shells in there now. I am really hoping that I get a little GSP that will leave them alone, LoL. Going to leave these four in here for another 2 weeks and see how it goes =) if everything is seeming to do well, then I am putting a call in to the LFS to tell them to order my little baby!

[goldielocke76]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQgJ5h4X ... ture=share <--- WTF?! Seriously?

I see some awesome practical jokes with that idea

LoL we think along the same lines...

[goldielocke76]

So, I have seen some bubble algae starting to appear. They are super tiny, so they are kind of hard to pick off by hand, and they are in impossible spots. What's a good way to remove them? Will the hermits or emeralds help with this?

[sevenyearnight]

Emerald crabs are actually one of the few things able to eat bubble algae.

[goldielocke76]

Emerald crabs are actually one of the few things able to eat bubble algae.

SCORE!!! LOL and I got them because they were cute!! Think 2 are enough? I have two hermits and two emeralds....already have seen one crab swap shells with almost every shell in the tank.....

[xrayjeeper83]

That sucks, I have some bubble showing up now and my dang emerald died