monicalooze
Active Member
Ok....I feel like I'm having a slow mass casualty event in my tank.
First, my porcelain crab slowly lost all its limbs and died. It was in the tank for 1.5 weeks. Then my cleaner shrimp unexpectedly molted (it has just molted) and looked really ragged and sad. It died within 24 hours of the molt. It was in the tank for approx 2.5 weeks. Finally, all my snails are starting to die.
For more history, a few strange things happened leading up to this: 1. I use an oxydator and I suspect it overdosed h2o2 into the tank over a few days. If this is the case, that likely explains the shrimp death. But the h2o2 should have dissipated quickly, so I don't know what's up with the snails.
There was also a small bacterial bloom and an outbreak of hair algae. All this happened in the same week.
I did three 30% water changes over several days, changed out the carbon for purit and tested my parameters three times.
Last readings:
Ph: 8.2
All: 8.6 dkh
Phos: .04ppm
Nitrate: 1ppm
Ammonia: 0 (there was .02 ammonia after the shrimp died)
Temp: 25 c
Salinity: 34.7ppt
I have a 10g nano and it's been up for about 8 weeks. 1 clown and a tailspot, running filter pad, purit, marine pure bio balls, a refugium with Pom Pom gracilaria.
Image with the sad hair algae. It's probably the ugly phase, but doesn't account for the death.
Apologies for the missive.
First, my porcelain crab slowly lost all its limbs and died. It was in the tank for 1.5 weeks. Then my cleaner shrimp unexpectedly molted (it has just molted) and looked really ragged and sad. It died within 24 hours of the molt. It was in the tank for approx 2.5 weeks. Finally, all my snails are starting to die.
For more history, a few strange things happened leading up to this: 1. I use an oxydator and I suspect it overdosed h2o2 into the tank over a few days. If this is the case, that likely explains the shrimp death. But the h2o2 should have dissipated quickly, so I don't know what's up with the snails.
There was also a small bacterial bloom and an outbreak of hair algae. All this happened in the same week.
I did three 30% water changes over several days, changed out the carbon for purit and tested my parameters three times.
Last readings:
Ph: 8.2
All: 8.6 dkh
Phos: .04ppm
Nitrate: 1ppm
Ammonia: 0 (there was .02 ammonia after the shrimp died)
Temp: 25 c
Salinity: 34.7ppt
I have a 10g nano and it's been up for about 8 weeks. 1 clown and a tailspot, running filter pad, purit, marine pure bio balls, a refugium with Pom Pom gracilaria.
Image with the sad hair algae. It's probably the ugly phase, but doesn't account for the death.
Apologies for the missive.
