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Yesterday, I have bought 4 more common crabs to help my overworked scarlet hermit crabs which that they are being overworked because the algae growth is outgrowing from the 4 scarlet crabs workload ablity so I hope the total of 8 crabs should be enough to keep the algae in the control.

However, it does not solve the problem because they don’t have the ablity to keep the glass free of algae so I bought 4 small asteria snails which appears that is not enough so I will probably have to buy 8 medium sized snails since the green algae covers up the glass which is too much for just 4 little guys to keep it under the control. I do have the sand problem which it becomes brown so I have bought 2 sand-sifting crabs which is called the horseshoe crabs and just two of them are doing great job by maintaining it as the white sand instead of the ugly brownish sands. Wait a minute, it is not finished, because there are some pest plants problem that are growing just like weed that is called Aiptasia which will be very bad when my tank becomes a reef tank because it stings the corals so I have bought the peppermint shrimp along with the purchase I made yesterday with the 4 common crabs. All finished ? nope! There is more what happens if the fish becomes sick with parasites ? By the nature, the cleaner shrimp helps to keep that under the control. The list goes on, and on so I have learned so much about it and still have alot more to learn so my aquarium will be self-sustaining healthy tank with the thriving creatures

Today I went out and bought:

4 herbit crabs
1 arrow crab
2 fishes I forgot what they are called but I will find out later when I return to the store.

So here’s the pictures:

The little dude achieved in the rock climbing where he eats at the top of the cave!


Those two fishes trying to say hello to the arrow crab but that crab got scared lol

Today I have done various of tests for my aquarium water as follows:

pH level is 8.0 (dropped from 8.2 that the inital test was performed on March 15th)
Ammonina remains at 0.25ppm which is unchanged from March 15th
Nitrite NO-2 remains at 0ppm
Nitrite NO-3 remains at 0ppm which is also unchanged.
Water Temperture is at 82 degrees F (a drop from 84 F) I am working on it to reduce it to 78 to 80 F degrees

The reason those nitrites are at zero because I just added the live rocks that produces the bacertias just yesterday on the March 15th so over the time it might will climb so I will have to do the regular water changes in the order to keep the nitrite low and maintain the high water quality as well.

So the question is that how I maintain the pH level at 8.2 at the natural’s way without the use of buffer and I have the live sand that supposed to help to maintain the pH level at 8.2 ?

I have started a new hobby…its the saltwater aquarium! I started it just recently monday March 13th, 2006, it took me 3 days to fill the tank up with the water to the maximum which is approximately 32 gallons which I believe the tank itself is 35 gallons since I have like 20 pounds worth of live sand on the bottom in my tank. Today, I have placed some live rocks that are supposed to produce some bacertias that keeps my future fishes to be healthy and it will help to get rid of the harmful toxins that can lead the fishes and the living things to death.

So my tank looks like right now as of 3/16/2006: