Hey everyone, my names Jim. I run a tattoo studio and when we built the shop one of my artists insisted on building 75 gallon tank into on of the walls so it allows for view into one of the rooms. Shortly after he set up the tank, he left the shop leaving me in charge of the tank. I've learned to take care of it from trial and error and asking questions at the local salt water pet store.
Currently I have (pardon my gross misuse and spellings of these) 4 chromis, a blue devil, a sail fin tang, 2 black clowns and 2 fire gobies, 2 cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimps, an anemone, some kenyan tree corals, a bubble coral, hammer coral, a toadstool and some mushrooms.
When the tank was set up, the guy that did it used expanding foam to adhere all of the live rock together. He had been told that it was non toxic. We haven't had any problems EXCEPT, Ive been fighting hair algae for a while now, and any algae eaters I buy only last a few days and then die off (probably gone through 20-30 snails and 4 nudibrancks). The levels are all fine in the tank. My concern is that the algae eaters, while grazing on the hair algae are eating the expanding foam and thats whats killing them.
Does anyone have any experience with tanks that have used expanding foam and had this problem? or is it just bad luck with these little guys?
Currently I have (pardon my gross misuse and spellings of these) 4 chromis, a blue devil, a sail fin tang, 2 black clowns and 2 fire gobies, 2 cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimps, an anemone, some kenyan tree corals, a bubble coral, hammer coral, a toadstool and some mushrooms.
When the tank was set up, the guy that did it used expanding foam to adhere all of the live rock together. He had been told that it was non toxic. We haven't had any problems EXCEPT, Ive been fighting hair algae for a while now, and any algae eaters I buy only last a few days and then die off (probably gone through 20-30 snails and 4 nudibrancks). The levels are all fine in the tank. My concern is that the algae eaters, while grazing on the hair algae are eating the expanding foam and thats whats killing them.
Does anyone have any experience with tanks that have used expanding foam and had this problem? or is it just bad luck with these little guys?