lime water usage

[4G Mitsubishi]

I have 10 acro frags, 4 LPS corals heap of soft, 8 fish in my std 3foot tank
and im driping 2 ltrs of lime water a day to keep up with evap but thats not
quite keeping up with the calcium and alk, what could b using so much?

or could it b the builders lime im using is not saturating the RO water?
i have only been driping lime water for just under 2 weeks atm but imstill
having to supliment with calcium chloride and bicarb soda.

i do have a problem sea grass that infected my tank from a bit of live rock,
not sure it that sucks up these things?

[Mandarin333]

>Subject: lime water usage
>From: "4G Mitsubishi"
>Date: 9/27/04 12:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: >

[calcium stuff]

>i do have a problem sea grass that infected my tank from a bit of live rock,
>not sure it that sucks up these things?

What you likely have is Turtle Grass now more affectionately known or rather
marketed as "Maiden's Hair". Under the right or rather wrong for coral keeping
conditions this menace will cover your rock and make it look like the grassy
floating platforms in Nintendo's popular SuperMario games. This killer wrecked
a 55 I had set up a few years back. My advice is to ruthlessly weed it out
before it gains a foothold. It is wiry and can be plucked whole from the rock
if you do it with care. I suggest using forceps like the kind bass fishermen
use to disgorge hooks from fish. Best of luck. -M333

P.S. I have never heard of anything that eats it.

[4G Mitsubishi]

It seems to b receeding now. i have started useing a zeolite that has droped
my nitrates back to 0 and it looks that my turbo snails
are starting to chew into the grass as tehre is NOTHING else for them to
eat.
pluss the 0 nitrates have slowed the grass growth right down. i tare it off
and teh snail seem to keep it clean. hloud go throught the tank and pluck it
all out and c if it tayes gone.


"Mandarin333" > wrote in message
...
> >Subject: lime water usage
>>From: "4G Mitsubishi"
>>Date: 9/27/04 12:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>>Message-id: >
>
> [calcium stuff]
>
>>i do have a problem sea grass that infected my tank from a bit of live
>>rock,
>>not sure it that sucks up these things?
>
> What you likely have is Turtle Grass now more affectionately known or
> rather
> marketed as "Maiden's Hair". Under the right or rather wrong for coral
> keeping
> conditions this menace will cover your rock and make it look like the
> grassy
> floating platforms in Nintendo's popular SuperMario games. This killer
> wrecked
> a 55 I had set up a few years back. My advice is to ruthlessly weed it
> out
> before it gains a foothold. It is wiry and can be plucked whole from the
> rock
> if you do it with care. I suggest using forceps like the kind bass
> fishermen
> use to disgorge hooks from fish. Best of luck. -M333
>
> P.S. I have never heard of anything that eats it.