Hello all
Well this saturday marks 11 weeks since I started my 20 L gallon tank.
I have at last count 11 invertebrates still alive. 3 hermit crabs; (that seem a bit bigger now) 3 nassarus snail; 2 turbo snails; 2 marigita snails; and 1 bumblebee.
I also have 1 red maroon juvenile clownfish.
Ok so I bought most of these invertebrates, (all except the 3 nassarus snails, bought them at Fauna), at manhattan aquariums, I also bought my fish at MA.
I trust both stores to take care of the vertebrates and invertebrates they sell to people.
I also acclimated all of them using the drip method for a long time before putting any of them in my tank.
This is also a brand new tank, and before I put the fish in this tank, and now most of my snails and hermit crabs I am 99% sure all of the water was already RO/DI water.
With that said, I also just did (yesterday after two weeks instead of one) to try to cause less stress to my fish, about a 30% water change.
With all of this said, I noticed something in the last week or so, and now I notice it seems more of them?
At first I thought this was a strange piece of sand? Yet what it looks like are little octupuses?
It has a long tube center, with what looks like eight tiny little appendages it uses to prop itself up?
Most of them are on the sand, but a few are on the glass. Should I gravel vac the sand area immediately this is all I see that I haven't done?
I also have 18lbs of cured live rock (which has more algae now it seems) in this tank serving as the biological filter.
My water's temperature reads 81 degrees.
Well this saturday marks 11 weeks since I started my 20 L gallon tank.
I have at last count 11 invertebrates still alive. 3 hermit crabs; (that seem a bit bigger now) 3 nassarus snail; 2 turbo snails; 2 marigita snails; and 1 bumblebee.
I also have 1 red maroon juvenile clownfish.
Ok so I bought most of these invertebrates, (all except the 3 nassarus snails, bought them at Fauna), at manhattan aquariums, I also bought my fish at MA.
I trust both stores to take care of the vertebrates and invertebrates they sell to people.
I also acclimated all of them using the drip method for a long time before putting any of them in my tank.
This is also a brand new tank, and before I put the fish in this tank, and now most of my snails and hermit crabs I am 99% sure all of the water was already RO/DI water.
With that said, I also just did (yesterday after two weeks instead of one) to try to cause less stress to my fish, about a 30% water change.
With all of this said, I noticed something in the last week or so, and now I notice it seems more of them?
At first I thought this was a strange piece of sand? Yet what it looks like are little octupuses?
It has a long tube center, with what looks like eight tiny little appendages it uses to prop itself up?
Most of them are on the sand, but a few are on the glass. Should I gravel vac the sand area immediately this is all I see that I haven't done?
I also have 18lbs of cured live rock (which has more algae now it seems) in this tank serving as the biological filter.
My water's temperature reads 81 degrees.
