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kware

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help with zoos and mushrooms
What is the best way to acclimate zoos and mushrooms
the drip method?
and my nitrates are around 10-20 averything else is good what do you guys think.
i'm getting them tomorrow
 
just temp acclimate them. those things are tank and really dont need to be drip acclimated.. work on getting those nitrates down though. water change and cheato (SP?) will help. you might be overfeeding too. do you use RO/DI water?
 
They should be able to tolerate those nitrate levels. I have kept zoos and mushrooms in nitrate levels up to 40ppm. 10ppm and I wouldn't worry. 20ppm, I might do a couple 20% water changes.

I would drip acclimate them for 45-60min. I would also dip the zoos in lugols iodine and fresh water before adding them to the tank.
 
I don't have a sump and I don't use RO/DI water , I know I need a sump but all my levels are zero except nitrates. I've been workin on them for months. I feed my fish once a day and they eat everything. It's always been real stable, what do you think?
 
I agree they should be fine after dripping. And try to to find out where your nitrates are coming from.
 
I just heard about the lugols freshwatter dip and would do it if I had time to get the lugols. But the zoos are coming tomorrow and I don't have time to get any
 
I've been trying to figure the nitrates for months . I had a hob filter and a canister filter . Now I still use the filters but I took the filter out of the canister and just have porcelin bio media and took all the filter media out of the hob filter and just use it for movement .
 
forgot about the dipping. that is a good idea. you should switch to RO/DI. you might not have problems now but down the road you most likely will depending on how your tap water is, as most tap water has a high TDS.

"They should be able to tolerate those nitrate levels" - they may tolerate it but its still not really a good thing.. the closer to 0 the better.
 
I test for copper and always get 0. What are TDS (total dissolved solids I think right?). Is there a way to test for them?
 
In many cases just drop a mushroom in and it may live.A 15 min float then adding small amounts of your tank water to the bag over a 15 or 20 min period then your good.Turning main lihgts out will also help for the first day.

I would say it was your nitrates.
Your tank setup from all equipmane to LR and Sb and age to all the readings you can test for.For a start.
 
The is something called a TDS meter. you can pick on up for like $15. they dont just test copper, they test everything in your water. if its deisolved it picks it up. alot of nutriants get into your tank that way and cuase algea like a B****. generally 0-10 TDS isnt bad. and can be used for a reef tank. most people like me dont like it leaveing the zero mark. most tap water is about 150-300+ depending on where you are and how your city water is.
 
You can drip but you dont have to.
Lugol dip is not necessary.
Use RO/DI water, reduces TDS in the system.
Nitrates at 10ppm in a tank housing Zoa's and Discosoma is acceptable. They like the water a little dirty. This is not a SPS system.
Buy a skimmer if you don't have one already.
 
your nitrates most likely are coming from the biomedia in your canister filter. removing that biomedia in small quantities at a time over time will allow your LR/LS bacteria to shoulder the nitrate-processing burden for your tank, and remove the nitrate traps that are biomedia.
 
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