I think I found out what the brown dusty crap in my tank was. The g*ddamn biopellet reactor makes it!! The drain from a biopellet reactor MUST terminate by the skimmer intake. so that crap can be skimmed out. How did I miss that???
Ha ha ha.Hey Jim, the output from a bio pellet reactor should go to the skimmer section of your sump or into a filter sock.
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Best thing is to do a build your own cleanup crew on live aquaria, get a few different Caribbean species, they're chEap.Where do I get the sea urchins (for my HA), what kind, and should I bother?
Wow is there anything sadder than a naked hermit crab running around the tank? I looked in my nano and there was one sorry SOB of a hermit crab, lost his big claw and no shell. I think the tiger pistol ZAPPED him, he was like a crazy naked insane person running back and forth. I ran to my little pile of empty snail shells in the front garden and picked out some candidates, rinsed them off and dumped them in. He was putting one of those on in I am not kidding five seconds. And then checking out the others. He felt as rich as HerrMitt Romney. (or Broke Claw Bama, just to even things out). Then he had to inspect all the other shells, buyer's remorse. I wonder what happened to his original shell?
Glad to hear it wasnt a total loss for you.
What kind of cake do you have climbing the walls?