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03-11-2008, 02:47 AM
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 clumps of brown fur? i have little clumps of furry brown stuff growing on my sand bed. are these diatoms? what can i do for it?
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03-11-2008, 03:07 AM
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| Re: clumps of brown fur? How old is your tank and what are the water parameters. Those should help us out alot with this question. |
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03-11-2008, 03:10 AM
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| Re: clumps of brown fur? my tank is a month old. 6 turbos, coral banded shrimp, gsp, kenya tree, nitrite 0, ammonia 0, nitrates <10, ph 8.1, kh 8, sg 1.023.
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03-11-2008, 03:15 AM
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| Re: clumps of brown fur? If your tank is a month than it may just be that you are finally hitting the end of your cycle. How much rock do you have, fuge, anything that could be making silicates high such as bad sand or something like that? |
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03-11-2008, 03:23 AM
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| Re: clumps of brown fur? 30 lbs lr, no fuge, i had ls from an old tank that was just sitting there i put that in this tank with additional new ls.
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03-11-2008, 12:58 PM
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| Re: clumps of brown fur? what do you mean by "just sitting there"? Please elaborate.
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03-11-2008, 09:14 PM
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| Re: clumps of brown fur? i mean that it was old ls from a previous tank that was drained.
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03-12-2008, 11:12 AM
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| Re: clumps of brown fur? There was a post regarding Live Sand this past week that addressed this exact issue. Live Sand is alive and chances are you will have a lot of die off if you did not provide acceptable living conditions for it (temperature, salinity, flow). I am not saying that your brown fur is necessarily related to this, but you will definitely want to monitor your parameters! Do you have a picture of the furry stuff?
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