in need of help!

[sfattorini]

Hello Everyone! This is my first time posting here...here goes...
I have a 125 gallon salt tank that has been up and running for about a year. There isn't much in it now except the following: about 90 pounds live rock, large finger leather, 8 ricordea, star polyps, frog spawn, flower pot, mushrooms, brain coral, pink tube anemone, 2 black clowns, 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 aero crab, a few hermits, and some turbo snails.

Recently I've had a few problems:
1) a lot of brown hairish algae on the live sand
2) aptasia-suddenly, many of them, and getting pretty large
3) These ugly snail/slugs appearing out of nowhere, they are pretty large too, some about an inch long. I think they may be stomatella? see pictures below-are they good, bad or other? 3 months ago there were zero, tonight I counted 28.
4) white stuff all over the aquarium glass. Maybe snail eggs (I don't think so), maybe fan worms?...something! picture below.
5) My frogspawn isn't doing that well. I've had it about 9 months, but recently it started not opening very much, and has 'spider webs' all over it...maybe its dying? someone told me this was a defense mechanism...looks like its dying.

I do a water change every 2-4 weeks, the leather, star polyps, and mushroom have been growing like crazy. The ricordea have survived, but not grown. All my levels are normal. I bought the aero crab in an attempt to rid the tank of aptasia, but all he seems to do is pick on the pink tube anemone, ricordea, and star polyps. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

Here is a shot of some of the algea thats growing along the bottom.


Not sure if its recognizeable, but here is a shot of aptasia in the middle of this rock (there are about 10 more in the tank), its about an inch in diameter.


snail things congragating in the back of the tank (only a small portion of those actually in the tank)


snail thingy on near glass wall


snail thingy on far wall

[sfattorini]

here is a pic of the white stuff on the tank walls


another angle of the white stuff

[twisted]

the snail/slug thingys are chitons. they are good for algae.i didntlook aat the rest of your pics but the spider webs could be from vermit snails. you will see tubes growing out of the rocks from them. they cant be an irritant to many corals. they bug my zoas and blastos when they are out.

[twisted]

hard to tell by the pics but the stuff on the sand is either cyano or diatoms. im more inclined to say cyano. for the glass nems, peppermint shrimp or a copperband is usually the fix. ive tried aptaisa x with some success but they seem to come back after a while. try some peppermints. they are cheap and do a good job

[sfattorini]

hard to tell by the pics but the stuff on the sand is either cyano or diatoms. im more inclined to say cyano. for the glass nems, peppermint shrimp or a copperband is usually the fix. ive tried aptaisa x with some success but they seem to come back after a while. try some peppermints. they are cheap and do a good job

Thanks for the advice. I'm going to get a few peppermint shrimp, some more hermits, a few nasarius and a copperband. Hopefully this does the trick!

[twisted]

Thanks for the advice. I'm going to get a few peppermint shrimp, some more hermits, a few nasarius and a copperband. Hopefully this does the trick!

just make sure the copperband is healthy and will accept food while you are at the lfs. if you can, bring some of the food you feed and see if it will eat it.

[Chasman]

+1 I had a copperband ONCE!!!! This was years ago, but the thing never ate.

[sfattorini]

just make sure the copperband is healthy and will accept food while you are at the lfs. if you can, bring some of the food you feed and see if it will eat it.

thanks for the advice. I got one, and he seems to be eating...hopefully he eats the bad stuff in the tank more than the mysis I drop in for the clowns.