Newbie aquarium question

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They're red zoanthids and and green bay packers zoanthids (what a cool
name for this one). Well, I guess I will give it some patience..


I've got a colony of green zoos....the LFS sometimes has some sparser
colonies where you get the "stalk" affect so to speak...(is this what
you are expecting?). The one I have is pretty tightly packed so looks
more like a mound and without disturbing them I couldn't really tell the
length of the stalks so to speak....(and you probably do not really want
to go disturbing zoo's too much as I've read stuff about their toxicity
when in defense mode)...When you look at the polyps are they open or do
they look like clenched up balls? Mine clenched up when I had the
phosphate problem so it might be worth testing for phosphates if this is
the case.

But as I said, I'm a newbie too so am only giving you what I have
seen....others probably have far more experience to tell you what is
"normal" with zoos...

Gill

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I just bought a 25gallon aquarium about a week ago and put the substate
and live rock in it. I haven't put coral and fish in and today I
suddenly found the water turned yellow!

I have pumps (Rio 800) running and using Biological filter calls.. What
do you guys think the problem come from? I changed water (about 60%
change) today but still feel water is yellow. What do you think? Shall
I do a complete water change?

Thanks!


prob just seaweed rotting off live rock and releasing tannins
chuck a skimmer on there and let the cycle run itself thru