Stepho725
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This week I lost my Fighting Conch and then tonight I found my emerald crab dead. The Conch just kind of stopped cleaning randomly one day and died the next day. The crab had been turning paler and paler but we thought maybe he was going to shed....wrong.
Before I found the crab I brought home 4 more snails but they are doing awesome and all over the glass eating...
I dont seem to have much in regards to algae... just some film algae in the bottom & corners of the glass. Also some spots of rly dark green/brownish furry/fuzzy looking stuff. But what I seem to have the most of is this greyish ashy looking stuff. I had been taking a toothbrush to it here & there but it does come back & nothing seems to be eating it. It looks like dead hair algae that needs to be cleaned off but....? Its really ashy looking which is really weird to me....someone told me it was bryopsis....what do ya think?? Difficult to get a shot of.
I havent done any water testing (besides with a couple strip tests I had leftover from a while ago...normal results) recently but will definitely do so tomorrow evening. All coral looks happy enough and the other CUC members seem normal and the fish are good too. Do you think they couldve starved even tho I get diatoms and some very difficult to remove film algae....
Before I found the crab I brought home 4 more snails but they are doing awesome and all over the glass eating...
I dont seem to have much in regards to algae... just some film algae in the bottom & corners of the glass. Also some spots of rly dark green/brownish furry/fuzzy looking stuff. But what I seem to have the most of is this greyish ashy looking stuff. I had been taking a toothbrush to it here & there but it does come back & nothing seems to be eating it. It looks like dead hair algae that needs to be cleaned off but....? Its really ashy looking which is really weird to me....someone told me it was bryopsis....what do ya think?? Difficult to get a shot of.
I havent done any water testing (besides with a couple strip tests I had leftover from a while ago...normal results) recently but will definitely do so tomorrow evening. All coral looks happy enough and the other CUC members seem normal and the fish are good too. Do you think they couldve starved even tho I get diatoms and some very difficult to remove film algae....