I have been having some strange problems with my tank for the past 3-4 months and I am a little bit perplexed as I have been in the hobby for years and someone with my experience should not have the difficulty I have had. My problem is that for some reason my tank nearly crashed in early february and I have lost all of my snails, crabs, shrimps and most other mobile inverts including the bristleworms. I was able to save all of the fish yet for some reason I still cannot keep snails alive! Before I started graduate school last august this tank had sps corals and anemoenes all using the same equipment that I have except I changed the lights and got rid of most of my corals. But now when I try and add snails they move around for about 10 minutes and then stop moving altogether.
My tank is a 60 gallon and has been running for about 2 years now. I have have a sump running on a mag 9.5, an asm g3 skimmer and two hydor korallia 4's. I am using 440 watts of VHO and I run a filter sock and use lots of activated carbon (about 2-3 cups changed weekly). My tank is bare-bottumed and I have around 40-50 pounds of DIY live rock and about 10 pounds of rock aquired from a previously set up tank. This rock was completely covered in coralline algae, sponges and had lots of halimeda growing until this time. I have a pair of ocellaris clowns, 2 chromis and a coral beauty angel and they are all doing just fine.
Since my tank is a converted sps to fish only tank I switched to using treated tap water a for a while and that worked fine for months until february. I have since switched back to RO/DI water and use it exclussively. My water is changed biweekly on about a 10% change using IO. My tests are good on Ammonia, nitrate, nitrite and pH. I no longer regularly test for calcium, magnesium or alkalinity as I am no longer dosing these supplements.
I am just kind of weirded out by all of this.
My tank is a 60 gallon and has been running for about 2 years now. I have have a sump running on a mag 9.5, an asm g3 skimmer and two hydor korallia 4's. I am using 440 watts of VHO and I run a filter sock and use lots of activated carbon (about 2-3 cups changed weekly). My tank is bare-bottumed and I have around 40-50 pounds of DIY live rock and about 10 pounds of rock aquired from a previously set up tank. This rock was completely covered in coralline algae, sponges and had lots of halimeda growing until this time. I have a pair of ocellaris clowns, 2 chromis and a coral beauty angel and they are all doing just fine.
Since my tank is a converted sps to fish only tank I switched to using treated tap water a for a while and that worked fine for months until february. I have since switched back to RO/DI water and use it exclussively. My water is changed biweekly on about a 10% change using IO. My tests are good on Ammonia, nitrate, nitrite and pH. I no longer regularly test for calcium, magnesium or alkalinity as I am no longer dosing these supplements.
I am just kind of weirded out by all of this.
