Do I Need to Cycle?

Astrick117 · Sep 2, 2011

SushiGirl said: ↑

Peppermint shrimp will eat fish food.
I would skip the nudibrach because it won't "might" die when it's done, it will die. They don't eat anything else.
The sand can have pockets of toxins in it under the top layer, where it's anaerobic. When you stir all that up, you're releasing the toxins. That depends on how deep the sand bed is and, as said, how well maintained. If it's shallow and they vacuumed it a lot or stirred it up in other ways to prevent those pockets, it might be ok. Just not worth the risk to me.

As for the aiptasia, how much is a bunch? You can try peppermint shrimp, and if they don't get rid of it (they tend to leave the large ones alone), then you can either inject them with boiling water or lemon juice or kalk paste (to skip any chemicals), or you could pull out one rock at a time, dry it, scrub it, dry it again, then put it back. A week or two later do it to another rock. That way you're not sacrificing a sizable amount of your bacteria colony.

Oh, and I've never had trouble with peppermint shrimp eating coral in 4 tanks so far (5 years of tanks)...I've actually had more trouble with my cleaner shrimp this tank LOL. It is all the luck of the draw, though, I guess I've just been lucky.
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Well, from what I saw there were probably about 30-40, most fairly small, but one or two that were about nickel in diameter (without the tentacles)

He also has a few very small green anemones, which he said are actually really painful if you touch them. Any ideas of what they are (could they be mojanos) and is there a solution that will take care of both the aiptasia and the little green ones?

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