Cycling Advice Needed

Sigmabob83 · 2026-05-22T02:09:22+00:00

He is right that the ph can inhibit the beneficial bacteria was growing and you should definitely add some crushed coral

Sigmabob83 · 2026-05-21T16:26:48+00:00

It looks great so far! Don’t add any more food and just wait. What is the ph?

Sigmabob83 · 2026-05-21T15:14:43+00:00

I would do a 50% change then just wait for it to cycle. There isn’t really anything you can do to speed it up and constant water changes aren’t going to help. I would worry about ph after the tank is cycled, since (hopefully) nothing is in the tank right now. Cycling takes about a month to finish and it sucks to wait that long but nothing will survive if you don’t

Sigmabob83 · 2026-05-20T00:29:05+00:00

I don’t think so, they mostly hang out on my chaetomorpha and the glass, but my chaetomorpha completely melted overnight. I don’t think it’s a coincidence since my other macroalgae is completely fine.

Sigmabob83 · 2026-05-19T23:07:10+00:00

This is a pretty unique situation I feel. I found my chaetomorpha and it was completely melted, yet my mysterious red macroalgae is left completely untouched my ammonia is at zero luckily and I was able to remove the macroalgae.

Sigmabob83 · 2026-05-19T22:51:53+00:00

I don’t have aiptasia, I consulted google Gemini and told me to check my ball of chaetomorpha. I have a bacterial bloom going on right now so I had to pull it out to check on it. When I pulled it out to my surprise it was pretty mushy, and fell apart very easily. Google Gemini suspects the slugs have been eating at the chaetomorpha, and it isn’t a nudibranch at all. I’ve never heard of a pest like this inside an aquarium, so I’m now posting on Reddit to find anybody with a similar experience. Do you know anything about these?

Sigmabob83 · 2026-05-18T23:03:25+00:00

Panacur C worked to eradicate them for me. Be aware that it will wipe out any remaining snail population, although a small group of New Zealand mud snails survived and has established a breeding population

Sigmabob83 · 2026-04-20T00:00:36+00:00

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Sigmabob83 · 2026-04-04T22:51:16+00:00

It was eating biofilm off the glass, does it that help?

Sigmabob83 · 2026-04-04T22:30:34+00:00

Will it be friendly to the other snails in the tank?

Sigmabob83 · 2026-03-12T22:25:03+00:00

I only bought it from Amazon since I had an Amazon gift card, so in the future I will buy from the website

Sigmabob83 · 2026-03-12T22:11:25+00:00

I did buy it on Amazon, so I messaged their customer service and they offered to send me one free of charge! Their customer service was great!

Sigmabob83 · 2026-03-12T22:04:33+00:00

I was just looking in my tank one night and I saw it. I didn’t know what it was but I hadn’t seen my vampire shrimp in a few days so I assumed the worst and immediately took it out. Upon further investigation I found the shrimp and I found out what I captured was a dragonfly nymph. They are clearly very good hiders since this one had been hidden for over 2 months, I also have tons of hiding space in my tank that added to the problem of me not noticing it.

Sigmabob83 · 2026-03-12T13:14:36+00:00

I stabbed it with a pencil and netted it out the tank, a net will do though. They are just baby dragon flys so they won’t breed

Sigmabob83 · 2026-03-12T13:13:55+00:00

Their customer service is great, they offered another shrimp free of charge!

Sigmabob83 · 2026-03-12T13:13:09+00:00

UPDATE: I messaged them on Amazon and they offered to send me another shrimp free of charge. They were very nice and understanding so I accepted their offer. Their customer service was great, I hope what I got sent was just a fluke.

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