mantis owners and inspired mantis owners!

have you noticed your mantis tank doesnt ever get algae like any nuicense sp? algae? i think its so funny cause my reef has gha and its such a pain but my mantis tank is perfect and i never have to clean my glass... no cuc at all...

 

same! its awesome!

 

Same untill I put that damned PVC in Though my problem is only diatoms it's killing me

 

they should go away soon once they eat off all the silicates... how long has the PVC in for? also, is it sched.80? jw because im planning on using sched 40 for mine

 

40
Yea I wiped a bunch out the other day and it's not growing back so maybe it's almost over

 

oh well thats good! im expecting it for when i put PVC in my new superfuge... but hey it IS a fuge haha

 

haha its the best thing in the world! i always have to clean my reef tank but never my mantis tank!

 

Let me know in a year what it looks like without a cuc.

My mantis tank won the reefcleaners.org ugliest tank contest.

 

There are reasons for this.

A) Most species of mantis would get real ticked off at you if you covered their tanks with a MH pendant of 4 T-5 bulbs

B) Most species of mantis require a fairly thick sand bed. The mantis bury their uneaten food. When bacteria break that down, the phosphates just adsorb to the aragonite sand (Calcium Carbonate) rather than go directly into the water column to be nabbed by algaes. Obviously, this doesn't last forever....eventually phosphates will start to leach out of the sand bed but that takes a while.

 

That must be why my mantis tank looked really good til I hit the one year mark. After that my algae exploded. K+ for the info!