Need help please!!

[CStrickland]

Acans, Zoas, polyps, hammer, frogspawn, and a few others.

these don't need to be fed, but you can target feed hammers and frogspawn and acans with smaller pieces of fishfood if you want.

are you flipping the trochus rightside up if the land on their backs? theyll stay there forever and starve if you dont. the crabs might be killing the ceriths for their shells, you can buy extra shells to help with that. the snails might just be a coincidence, but they are sensitive to ammonia so it could also be a little spike from the first one that died.

are those pics recent? it doesnt look so bad

 

[Jdavis8824]

Those are pics a just took. I brush the rocks weekly and just did so 2 days ago. They get that brown fluffy stuff very quickly and covers everything if I don't brush every week. The ammonia spike could be the reason why. Only thing I can think of right now. I did feed only the frogspawn and acans mysis but I stopped after this aglae broke out. The snails do a good job flipping themselves back. I've never seen them upside down but a couple of times and they right themselves immediately. I'm going to get some more rowa tomorrow to try to keep the phosphates down til this starve itself out.

 

[dustinkimpel]

Those are pics a just took. I brush the rocks weekly and just did so 2 days ago. They get that brown fluffy stuff very quickly and covers everything if I don't brush every week. The ammonia spike could be the reason why. Only thing I can think of right now. I did feed only the frogspawn and acans mysis but I stopped after this aglae broke out. The snails do a good job flipping themselves back. I've never seen them upside down but a couple of times and they right themselves immediately. I'm going to get some more rowa tomorrow to try to keep the phosphates down til this starve itself out.

woah woah woah... I cant tell from the pics but you might have a dino problem my friend.... are those air bubbles in the suspicious algea you are getting? Look up dino in reef tank... their is a new thread on this forum under chemistry page in which I have personally dealt with. Like I said can't tell from the pics but you might want to check it out before you do anything else...

 

[dustinkimpel]

BTW dino is toxic to snails.

 

[Jdavis8824]

I don't think it's Dino's. I know about those and I had a little on the sandbed right before I did a water change but it only lasted 2 days and was gone. Dino's are darker, slimy and more hairy. This is more of a light brown fluffy dust. I'm thinking diatoms. Those aren't bubbles it's sand from when I blow off the rocks. There were air bubbles a while ago before I added the reactor but since disappeared after lights out for 3 days a couple of months ago.