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lzrlvr
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Location: clinton corners ny
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hi my 12 gal nano is now one month old.i have not added any livestock yet but i am happy with the life that is begining to emerge in my tank.i identified some of the creatures i have living in my tank,there are many copepods, syconoid sponges growing on the lower rock,stormatella varia(some type of snail),some flatworms/planria and small insect looking things crawling around the rock.i have three other snails crawling around the upper rock i have not been able to identfiy yet,they have been in the tank for at least three weeks or more.i had or still have an outbreak of some brown algae it began growing on some of the rock then spread to the sand.i cleaned it off the rock it was growing on i also cleaned most of the sand that i could.the algae does not seem to be much of a problem at this time.the upper rock i have looks very good there is some purple and green algae some of the green plant like algae looks very normal.ok bye for now 
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sadielynn
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Congrats   you may wish to hit the flat worms before you add anything tho as they are considered pests
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10 gallon nano reef
2 cats
1 very missed kitty that left April 27, 2009 
3 birds and 1 very missed birdy that left May 1 2005
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skipm
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I agree with getting rid of the flatworms now, before they multiply into plague proportions.
The insect looking things are either copepods or possibly grammarus shrimp, either way they are a good thing.
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lzrlvr
Joined: Nov 15 2009
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Location: clinton corners ny
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thank you for the info on the flat worms,i only had two but i have not seen them in days.today i saw a small red bristle worm crawling on my upper rock it was on the rock for a minute but it crawled back into the rock.the stomatellas seem to be doing well and may be reproducing.i also saw one of the bug like creatures that crawl aruond the rock molting its shell.
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