olddreamer
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Hi,
New guy to the forum :lol:
I have a D-D 90L nano tank, which I am trying to bring back to life after a LONG period of dire and regrettable neglect (It has been running for probably 3 years, half of which it was neglected) It contains aprox. 11kl live rock, one and a half inches of coral sand, nothing but coral rubble in the way of filtration in the rear compartments. The original surviving live stock include a huge healthy Catalaphyllia, a large healthy Duncan, and a few more healthy LPS, plus a few less healthy ones and an assortment of corallimorphs, a host of varied small hitch hiker snails from the rock....and an 8/9 inch serpent star (grey banded)
Having got the water back to well within recommended parameters, as far as I can tell with the limited test kits I have (Salifert NO2, NO3, NH4, PO4, Ph, Ca, Mg, KH/Alk) I decided to add a few CUC, the old ones having long since died of old age. Sadly, the first small batch (3 red leg hermits and 1 Mithrax crab) all died within days. Thinking it may have been a batch already on it's last legs in my dealers tank (quite usual ) I left it for a month or two and bought a similar batch, plus a few Trochus snails, from another dealer...and they (certainly the crabs) look to be going the same way :sad1:
Thinking of possible causes, I recall I repeatedly made a silly mistake months ago, that of adding small amounts of Iodine (at the recommended dose on the bottle) because a dealer sold it to me as a 'vital additive' which my tank had been missing out on . Now that I know better (a bit late, I know) I was wondering if a too high level of Iodine may be the cause of this problem? I don't have an Iodine test kit (I know...don't add what you can't test for) and finances don't allow for buying one if, in you collective opinions, that is unlikely to be the cause of my problem. No doubt you will all say 'buy the test kit', because you are mostly from across the big pond in the US of A...but being a pensioner in England makes it a tad more painful to buy something which turns out to be something you don't need...trust me on that :lol:
All the best guys, and thanks in advance.
Dave.
New guy to the forum :lol:
I have a D-D 90L nano tank, which I am trying to bring back to life after a LONG period of dire and regrettable neglect (It has been running for probably 3 years, half of which it was neglected) It contains aprox. 11kl live rock, one and a half inches of coral sand, nothing but coral rubble in the way of filtration in the rear compartments. The original surviving live stock include a huge healthy Catalaphyllia, a large healthy Duncan, and a few more healthy LPS, plus a few less healthy ones and an assortment of corallimorphs, a host of varied small hitch hiker snails from the rock....and an 8/9 inch serpent star (grey banded)
Having got the water back to well within recommended parameters, as far as I can tell with the limited test kits I have (Salifert NO2, NO3, NH4, PO4, Ph, Ca, Mg, KH/Alk) I decided to add a few CUC, the old ones having long since died of old age. Sadly, the first small batch (3 red leg hermits and 1 Mithrax crab) all died within days. Thinking it may have been a batch already on it's last legs in my dealers tank (quite usual ) I left it for a month or two and bought a similar batch, plus a few Trochus snails, from another dealer...and they (certainly the crabs) look to be going the same way :sad1:
Thinking of possible causes, I recall I repeatedly made a silly mistake months ago, that of adding small amounts of Iodine (at the recommended dose on the bottle) because a dealer sold it to me as a 'vital additive' which my tank had been missing out on . Now that I know better (a bit late, I know) I was wondering if a too high level of Iodine may be the cause of this problem? I don't have an Iodine test kit (I know...don't add what you can't test for) and finances don't allow for buying one if, in you collective opinions, that is unlikely to be the cause of my problem. No doubt you will all say 'buy the test kit', because you are mostly from across the big pond in the US of A...but being a pensioner in England makes it a tad more painful to buy something which turns out to be something you don't need...trust me on that :lol:
All the best guys, and thanks in advance.
Dave.