Skippy's Fishies

cleaning help

Today JD from Tropic Isle cleaned my tanks for me. I just haven't been keeping up with them. Nitrate was at 20 - a bit too high. Also the lights were old, aptasia and cyanoalgea out of control. JD scraped the tanks well, changed 30 gallons using his deionized water, got rid of many aptasia using Joe's Juice and changed the light bulbs. He recommended getting the refugium lights onto a timer and adding more caulerpa and other types of seaweed to the refugium. He suggested adding snails to the tank to work on the algea on the glass, treating the cyanoalgea soon if it doesn't go away as the tank gets cleaner, and adding some shrimp to control the small aptasia.

posted by kathy @ 8:03 AM