emerilnut
New Member
OK, guys another question....
Here's the tank details... 20 gallon high, 20 lbs live sand, 6 lb live rock, Eheim Classic 250, no protein skimmer.
Tank is about a month old. It seemed to have cycled.
I'm currently stocked with 2 percula clowns, 2 mexican turbo snails, and 2 dwarf hermits (one red one blue). Then snails and hermits were first, the fish have been in there for only a week now. Everyone seems to be doing great. Fish are active and eating well. So I think everything's happy hunky dory.
But right now I'm going through a diatom bloom. I'm guessing because the tank is new and the sand has alot of silicates. I would say it's a significant bloom, but since this is my first tank, I guess any event is significant. But my main question is... do I need a bigger CUC to eat up all this brown stuff? Or do I just let it runs its course? I wouldn't want to create such a large CUC that they starve when the bloom is over, right?
Here's the tank details... 20 gallon high, 20 lbs live sand, 6 lb live rock, Eheim Classic 250, no protein skimmer.
Tank is about a month old. It seemed to have cycled.
I'm currently stocked with 2 percula clowns, 2 mexican turbo snails, and 2 dwarf hermits (one red one blue). Then snails and hermits were first, the fish have been in there for only a week now. Everyone seems to be doing great. Fish are active and eating well. So I think everything's happy hunky dory.
But right now I'm going through a diatom bloom. I'm guessing because the tank is new and the sand has alot of silicates. I would say it's a significant bloom, but since this is my first tank, I guess any event is significant. But my main question is... do I need a bigger CUC to eat up all this brown stuff? Or do I just let it runs its course? I wouldn't want to create such a large CUC that they starve when the bloom is over, right?
