Nick_Northern
New member
Hi all,
I made up a batch of food to feed my gorgs using blended Reefplus, flake and water, in doing so I messed up the ratios and ended up adding around 100ml of Reeplus to 100ml of water instead of an intended 1:4 ratio. I let the larger particles settle then poured the excess liquid down the sink. I then used the remainder to target feed my nps gorgs with a pippette last wednesday and thought nothing of it.
On friday I noticed my snails were looking very lethargic and have what I can only describe as pinched or puckered looking mouths, this applies to my trochus, conch and nassarius. I have 2 nass both of which came out of the sandbed yesterday and just sat on the rocks. I have a lot of baby stomatella which also don't appear to be moving much, but are still stuck to the rock/glass. A couple of leather corals are looking very sorry for themselves and my star polyps have been closed up. My clowns, tuxedo urchin, hermits and gorgonians are seemingly unaffected.
Over the weekend I have added polyfilter to the sump, and done 3 x 130l water changes which in theory should have changed out around 73% of the original water volume (tank is around 365l). The corals appear to be perking up but the snails are still not happy. I'm wondering if anyone has had any similar experiences and any advice as to what else I can do to rectify this?
Any chance the snails will recover or has the damage been done?? I shipped my 2 conch off to the LFS yesterday who will hold them for me until things settle.
By the time I came to test the water all the following params were normal- DO/pH/Alk/Calc/Mag/Iodine/NH4/NO2/NO3.
The quantities of the various minerals in the Reefplus all seem fairly low, particularly when diluted in the tank but the only other thing I did was add carbon to the sump for the first time on thursday (HR Activated Carbon) which seems very unlikely to be the issue. I can only guess that maybe the iodine level raised too high for a brief period before being converted or taken up by my chaeto and skimmer. Reefplus also contains metals such as copper but the quantities seem very low. (List of ingredients below)
I'm kicking myself for doing this and also not picking up on it for a couple of days so any advice would be appreciated. Its also frustrating as I know I have used around 100ml from the bottle but no idea exactly how much of this went in to the tank.
Thanks
Vitamins & Lipotropic Factors (per gram)
Ascorbic Acid (Vit C) 5.0 mg
Thiamin (B1) 0.02 mg
Riboflavin (B2) 0.02 mg
Niacin (B3) 0.25 mg
Pantothenate (B5) 0.07 mg
Vitamin B12 0.9 µg
Choline (B4) 0.004 mg
Inositol 0.011 mg
Arginine 0.16 mg
Glutamate 0.9 mg
Lysine 0.3 mg
Tyrosine 0.19 mg
Boron 0.096 mg
Iodine 0.18 mg
Iron 0.009 mg
Copper 0.001 mg
Zinc 0.005 mg
Manganese 0.062 mg
Bromide 0.3 mg
Cobalt 0.004 mg
Molybdenum 0.16 mg
Vanadium 0.0003 mg
Nickel 0.00035 mg
Tin 0.001 mg
Rubidium 0.001 mg
I made up a batch of food to feed my gorgs using blended Reefplus, flake and water, in doing so I messed up the ratios and ended up adding around 100ml of Reeplus to 100ml of water instead of an intended 1:4 ratio. I let the larger particles settle then poured the excess liquid down the sink. I then used the remainder to target feed my nps gorgs with a pippette last wednesday and thought nothing of it.
On friday I noticed my snails were looking very lethargic and have what I can only describe as pinched or puckered looking mouths, this applies to my trochus, conch and nassarius. I have 2 nass both of which came out of the sandbed yesterday and just sat on the rocks. I have a lot of baby stomatella which also don't appear to be moving much, but are still stuck to the rock/glass. A couple of leather corals are looking very sorry for themselves and my star polyps have been closed up. My clowns, tuxedo urchin, hermits and gorgonians are seemingly unaffected.
Over the weekend I have added polyfilter to the sump, and done 3 x 130l water changes which in theory should have changed out around 73% of the original water volume (tank is around 365l). The corals appear to be perking up but the snails are still not happy. I'm wondering if anyone has had any similar experiences and any advice as to what else I can do to rectify this?
Any chance the snails will recover or has the damage been done?? I shipped my 2 conch off to the LFS yesterday who will hold them for me until things settle.
By the time I came to test the water all the following params were normal- DO/pH/Alk/Calc/Mag/Iodine/NH4/NO2/NO3.
The quantities of the various minerals in the Reefplus all seem fairly low, particularly when diluted in the tank but the only other thing I did was add carbon to the sump for the first time on thursday (HR Activated Carbon) which seems very unlikely to be the issue. I can only guess that maybe the iodine level raised too high for a brief period before being converted or taken up by my chaeto and skimmer. Reefplus also contains metals such as copper but the quantities seem very low. (List of ingredients below)
I'm kicking myself for doing this and also not picking up on it for a couple of days so any advice would be appreciated. Its also frustrating as I know I have used around 100ml from the bottle but no idea exactly how much of this went in to the tank.
Thanks
Vitamins & Lipotropic Factors (per gram)
Ascorbic Acid (Vit C) 5.0 mg
Thiamin (B1) 0.02 mg
Riboflavin (B2) 0.02 mg
Niacin (B3) 0.25 mg
Pantothenate (B5) 0.07 mg
Vitamin B12 0.9 µg
Choline (B4) 0.004 mg
Inositol 0.011 mg
Arginine 0.16 mg
Glutamate 0.9 mg
Lysine 0.3 mg
Tyrosine 0.19 mg
Boron 0.096 mg
Iodine 0.18 mg
Iron 0.009 mg
Copper 0.001 mg
Zinc 0.005 mg
Manganese 0.062 mg
Bromide 0.3 mg
Cobalt 0.004 mg
Molybdenum 0.16 mg
Vanadium 0.0003 mg
Nickel 0.00035 mg
Tin 0.001 mg
Rubidium 0.001 mg
