Rytek
New member
Last night before bed I noticed 'Simon' my cleaner shrimp (everyones fav) was sitting on the sand and just looked kinda....funny.
This morning he was laying on his side in the same spot, my heart dropped. Its not a molt its Simon and he passed last night and was pronounced dead this morning at 10:23 AM on 10/10/10.
I am a 26 year old body builder not a 12 year old dealing with death his first time but I so love animals and this is hard because in my first tank he was my first thing I bought after my tank cycle about 8 months ago.
Now its time to investigate! Here is the truth, at my LFS they have my exact same Red Sea Max 130D there on the floor and it is stocked with corals and fish and they said they do water changes like once every 3 months! This made me think I was excessive with doing it once a week so I backed off and did it every other week. I went to Vegas last week and got off pace with the tank (had someone feed them of course) but I have not done a water change in a bit over a month!
Everyone else in the tank looks great and I have not got to test my levels but will when I get home. I dont supplement the tank with any Iodine. Do you think the lack of water changes in a 34 gallon tank caused some of those levels like magnesium, stronium and Iodine to deplete to far?
If I have been a poor reef keeper for not doing water changes I need to hear that! I need a good kick in the teeth if I killed my little guy through neglect.
Thanks for listing to me....
This morning he was laying on his side in the same spot, my heart dropped. Its not a molt its Simon and he passed last night and was pronounced dead this morning at 10:23 AM on 10/10/10.
I am a 26 year old body builder not a 12 year old dealing with death his first time but I so love animals and this is hard because in my first tank he was my first thing I bought after my tank cycle about 8 months ago.
Now its time to investigate! Here is the truth, at my LFS they have my exact same Red Sea Max 130D there on the floor and it is stocked with corals and fish and they said they do water changes like once every 3 months! This made me think I was excessive with doing it once a week so I backed off and did it every other week. I went to Vegas last week and got off pace with the tank (had someone feed them of course) but I have not done a water change in a bit over a month!
Everyone else in the tank looks great and I have not got to test my levels but will when I get home. I dont supplement the tank with any Iodine. Do you think the lack of water changes in a 34 gallon tank caused some of those levels like magnesium, stronium and Iodine to deplete to far?
If I have been a poor reef keeper for not doing water changes I need to hear that! I need a good kick in the teeth if I killed my little guy through neglect.
Thanks for listing to me....
