I understood your post perfectly. You said

"The best
way to get rid of unwanted nitrogen in your tank is
to harvest algae
manually not to have the vegetarians turn them back
into the cycle."

It's too bad that you have not realized that the
algae grazers' poop helps encourage denitrification
in the sand bed. And helps to feed the fauna in the
sand bed.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Inabón Yunes wrote on 6/26/2007 8:20 PM:
You misunderstood my post, as usual...
Read again his question and my answer.
I know, I know, you are slow but, what can we do?
Actually, read the subject of this post, poor Wayne.
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"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
...
Having algae eaters in the aquarium is good. The more you can make the
aquarium work for you, the better. The idea of not putting algae eaters in
an aquarium so that you can remove the algae yourself is absurd. If one
wants to set up a refugium set that up for the purpose of algae extract,
that's find and dandy, but not putting algae eaters in the reef tank so
that you can manually remove the algae is absurd.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Inabón Yunes wrote on 6/25/2007 9:29 PM:
In following replies to your post the Lawnmower Blenny was suggested but
after a few years experimenting with controling nitrates naturaly in my
tank, I found that vegetarians contribute more to increase levels of
nitrates in your tank.
You see, the nitrogen cycle changes ammonnia to nitrites, both toxic,
then the nitrites get transformed to nitrates. On this stage is when
nitrogen is less toxic and easily absorbed by algae. If a Blenny is to
eat the algae, it gets transformed again to Ammonnia and the cycle starts
again. The best way to get rid of unwanted nitrogen in your tank is to
harvest algae manually not to have the vegetarians turn them back into
the cycle.
Blennies are great fish and will eat almost any flake food. I have to
keep a refugium where I extract the algae myself.
Another sturdy species is the Clarks Clownfish.

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"Aroon" wrote in message
ups.com...
Hi,

I was wondering whether anyone has a suggestion for a cool first fish
to add to my sal****er tank.

This is my first SW tank, having kept small and big fw tanks all my
life. Tank cycled for a month, and i started added critters last week.

The current inhabitats are hermit crabs (10 red legged), snails (1
turbo and 5 bumble bee), and an Emerald crab.
I had a surge of algae a week after my tank finished cycling, and am
trying to get this under control with these cleaners. I would like to
add fish soon.

My near-term goal (next 6-months) is to add 1 clown fish, 1 goby, and
1 six line wrasse.

I thought it would be a good idea to start with a reasonably priced,
hardy fish to start.

I have 50 lbs of live rock in a 58g. all my nitrogen params are
stable, and where they should be.

Temp is 82, ph 8.4, alk 2.6, calcium 450.

If you have any suggestions, I would be interested in hearing friom
you.

Thanks, Aroon