Eclipse System 3 29 gallon questions

[Parrothead]

I appreciate it! I hope someone can help me Im sick of flushing money I wanna injoy it!

Like I said, Listen to Lee, read what he tells you to read, and ask him if you get confused or don't quite grasp what is going on, don't just act, check first

[Ninong]

...my clown fish got a whole bunch of little white dots on his face and fins, and died a day later..

i got another and the same thing happened...

I order more live rock from "aquarium arts" to get the look I wanted, I tried purchasing a small hippo tang another clown which again saw the same numerous white dots covering the body..

I looked online and it looks oodinium? or matches the pictures at least..

Based on your description -- "little white dots on his face and fins" -- it sounds like it might have been marine ich (Cryptocaryon irritans) rather than marine velvet (Amyloodinium ocellatum). However, all questions about fish disease and treatment should be posted to this forum. Start a new thread over there describing your experiences. There are also several sticky threads there that discuss the various diseases and their appropriate treatment.

I bought a pearl butterfly fish....

I tried purchasing a small hippo tang

A 29-gal tank is too small for any tangs or butterflyfish.

[supersporter69]

Well I appreciate the input does anyone know about which crabs should be living in my tank? are my hermit crabs harmful if i plan on running this as a small reef tank?

[Ninong]

Well I appreciate the input does anyone know about which crabs should be living in my tank? are my hermit crabs harmful if i plan on running this as a small reef tank?

Some people like hermit crabs, some people don't. It's up to you.

I put a dozen scarlet reef hermits in my 120-gal reef aquarium mainly because I thought they were cute. To tell you the truth, I wish I had put only two or three. That would have been more than enough cute.

Hermit crabs can annoy some corals. They eat the beneficial microcrustaceans and tiny polychaetes that populate the upper layer of the sand bed. For example, they constantly nibbled on the buccal tentacles of my hair worms.

The Number One reason people don't like hermit crabs is because they kill snails -- sometimes for their shells and sometimes just because they enjoy doing it.

[Doodaa]

The Number One reason people don't like hermit crabs is because they kill snails -- sometimes for their shells and sometimes just because they enjoy doing it.

Killing snails is probably the #1 reason, but I also I don't like hermits because they crawl over everything and annoy the corals, if nothing else. I have yet to see a snail track across a coral and make it retract. And I don't think they do a very good job of cleaning, especially compared to snails or other inverts. I think the only reason to get them is to enjoy them as Ninong stated...they are cute

[Steve McKay]

Snails are the way to go.Good snails to get are Margarita,Turbo,Nerite,Astraea and Trochus snails.My two favorite kinds of snails are Cerith and Nassaurius snails.Brittle stars and Cleaner shrimp are good too.

[supersporter69]

thanks guys!

okay I got my corallife 65 watt CP retrofit kit in today.. trimmed it up and installed it WOW what a huge difference my polyps are loving it!! also got my K1 pump in today and the water circulation looks way better. no one in the disease section has responded to my post so i think im going to let my tank just sit idle of any fish (Since there all dead) for 10 weeks so anything in there will be dead then I can start adding a couple fish! any good ideas for some active fish in my tank when the time comes? also i have a brown serpant starfish, 2 cleaner shrimp and a bunch of snails, my hermits dont seem to move around much anyways so i will prob donate them to my friends tank any other ideas you guys may have?

[Steve McKay]

A Six Line Wrasse would be good,there hardy active fish.Here's a few photos.

[7digits]

I unfortunately have the same pos eclipse system as you. Get rid of the biowheel! The hood is crap. If it doesn't leak out the back yet, it will soon. Loose the hood, and get a hob refugium like the cpr aquafuge. Or there is one made by odyssea for 70 dollars. It's 200 dollars less than the aquafuge. I have it, and I'm really happy with it. Some say odyssea is crap mostly because of their lights, but thee fugr is a aquafuge clone. Get a good pump for it. It has a built in skimmer, it works ok if you have a good pump. I get lots of nasty skimmate, plus I saved 200 dollars. You would have to get rid of the hood, but like I said it's crap anyway. You would also have to get a new light fixture, or you could cut up the hood, to make the fuge fit. The ruge will add about 6 more gallons to your system, and the more water the better. Sorry if my post disappoints you, but I got screwed with the eclipse hood too, and as soon as I can get a light fixture it's gone. You will never get anything to hang on the back of it without mutilating the hood, then it's gonna leak. It's gonna leak eventually anyway, but the only way to add a protien skimmer(which you will need) is to get an in tank skimmer, and that's just gonna take up more space with we both already lacfk. Get a hob refugium with the built in skimmer, and a new light fixture like the coralife 30" 2x65 watt pc fixture with lunerlights, or the clamp on metal halide from coralife. With an 18" deep tank like ours that should support just about anything.(I think.)

[Jgisler2006]

hey everyone

I am new to the site but have learned a lot already. I received an eclipse system 3 29 gallon tank last summer. I am wanting to add some more coral to the tank. I have read that I need to upgrade the lighting in the tank to do so. Has anyone added a T5 lighting system to the tank hood? if so how? Also does anyone know which size power head would work good with system?

Thanks!

You can keep coral with the stock lighting ? haha

[Steve McKay]

You can keep coral with the stock lighting ? haha

There are corals that you can keep with little or no light,but not the one's you really want.Two 24" 20 watt bulbs will not produce enough light for most corals.