Parameter question.

[FixIt]

So here is my water specs at the moment. I just had an emerald crab die this morning. What am I doing wrong or not enough of or ????

Salinity. 1.023
Phosphate 0.17ppm hanna checker
Nitrate more than 4ppm red sea test kit
Calcium. 400 API
Carbonate Hardness. 8. API
PH. 8.0. API
Ammonia 0ppm. API

One of my owns has a white bump on it and my candy cane coral have receded a little but still look ok despite that. All other coral look ok as do the other fish.

32g led biocube running for 6 months just about.
2 clowns
1 purple firefish
1 blue ( jerk ) damsel
10 trochus snails
3 nassarius snails
4 blue legged hermits
I had a emerald crab till this morning

Running filter floss and rock in the back
2 small pumps plus the stock one
Lights on less than 7 hours with only 3 being white the rest blue.

I do not see any growth in the corals and other than the white bump on the one clown the fish look healthy and happy. I feed them new life spectrum and seaweed extreme and just started trying out some mysis shrimp and they all love that.

I am fighting a little cyano right now also.

Thanks for the help everyone.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Everything looks good on paper.

Can you post a picture of the clown with the bump?

 

[FixIt]

Everything looks good on paper.

Can you post a picture of the clown with the bump?

Best I can get at the moment....

 

[Flippers4pups]

Is it fuzzy? Tough to tell from the picture. Can you take one with just white light.

 

[FixIt]

Is it fuzzy? Tough to tell from the picture. Can you take one with just white light.

How is this. I only have a cell phone to take the pics. Sorry.

 

[Flippers4pups]

How is this. I only have a cell phone to take the pics. Sorry.

Looks like Lymphocystis. Still a little blurry on the picture.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fish-diseases-101.189284/

#reefsquad.

 

[FixIt]

Looks like Lymphocystis. Still a little blurry on the picture.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fish-diseases-101.189284/

#reefsquad.

Ok so yes it is cauliflower looking so I think you could be right. Is there anything with my water that is causing this? Anything I need to improve on?

 

[Flippers4pups]

Ok so yes it is cauliflower looking so I think you could be right. Is there anything with my water that is causing this? Anything I need to improve on?

Though lympho can happen with any fish, clowns usually don't get it.

All you can do is feed a good quality food like LRS reef frenzy. It will come and go. Chances are it will improve on it's own.

Keeping your water pramameters in check and running some carbon once in awhile may help.

 

[saltyhog]

I would do a dilution of the Red Sea nitrate test and see exactly how much above 4 the nitrates are. How long had the crab been in the tank?

 

[FixIt]

I would do a dilution of the Red Sea nitrate test and see exactly how much above 4 the nitrates are. How long had the crab been in the tank?

I noticed it acting weird last night and found it dead this morning. I will try to do the diluted test also.

 

[FixIt]

I would do a dilution of the Red Sea nitrate test and see exactly how much above 4 the nitrates are. How long had the crab been in the tank?

So I am not sure how to read this but I would say the color after doing the dilution test would be between these two colors. What does it come out to?

 

[saltyhog]

So I am not sure how to read this but I would say the color after doing the dilution test would be between these two colors. What does it come out to?

So call it 6. That shouldn't be a problem. How long had you had the crab, what was the weird behavior he was showing?

 

[wesman42]

It's basically the herpes of the fish world apparently.

 

[FixIt]

So call it 6. That shouldn't be a problem. How long had you had the crab, what was the weird behavior he was showing?

I had the crab for about 4 months. 2 days ago he started no hanging onto the rock well and moving slow and then yesterday morning he was dead so I removed him.

 

[IslandLifeReef]

Parameters look fine. You have a lot of CUC for a 32 gal tank. Maybe there just wasn't enough food for the crab. It could also be that everything dies eventually, and it was his time. Just keep an eye on things.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

FWIW, tank creatures die for unknown reasons all the time, and aside from ammonia issues in a new tank or tank crash, I expect chemistry issues are not the most likely culprit. Biological ones (infections, parasites, attacks by other organisms, etc.) are more often the issue, IMO.