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Tank specs:
72 gallon
80-100 lbs of LR
tank inhabitants: One firefish, One PJ Cardinal, one cleaner shrimp, several hermit crabs, green star polyps, frogspawn, mushrooms, and ten or so very sick snails.
SG is a bit high=1.028....I just found this out with my new refractometer, but it has been this way for months, so this was not a sudden change. I have started to bring it down VERY slowly.
Temp=77F with NO fluctuation from day to night.
pH=8.3
Ammonia=0
Nitrite=0
Nitrate=0 (purchased a new test to confirm this)
Calcium is a little low=380-400ppm
Kh is also just a tad low=100-110
Everything in the tank looks great and, as you can see above, water quality is pristene. In the last two seeks I have lost two trochus snails and several turbos. They become lathargic and fall over a lot and then they just die. The last trochus in the tank hasn't moved in over a week, but he's still alive...he's not eating and he just sticks to the rock in one spot. The last trochus that dies did the same thing and was just dead the other morning.
Today I found five turbos on their backs...I have never had to flip that many in one day before.
What can this be? All other inhabitants look healthy. Corals look great and open fine, cleaner shrimp looks healthy and eats well, hermits look fine, and the fish are fat and happy.
Can it be a snail disease?
My copper test is malfunctioning, but if this were some metal poisoning wouldn't the corals or the shrimp start getting sick before all the snails?
Could my shrooms be battling my other corals and poisoning the water? I do run fresh carbon all the time and these corals lived in closer quarters in last tank with no problems.
Thanks for your input everyone!
72 gallon
80-100 lbs of LR
tank inhabitants: One firefish, One PJ Cardinal, one cleaner shrimp, several hermit crabs, green star polyps, frogspawn, mushrooms, and ten or so very sick snails.
SG is a bit high=1.028....I just found this out with my new refractometer, but it has been this way for months, so this was not a sudden change. I have started to bring it down VERY slowly.
Temp=77F with NO fluctuation from day to night.
pH=8.3
Ammonia=0
Nitrite=0
Nitrate=0 (purchased a new test to confirm this)
Calcium is a little low=380-400ppm
Kh is also just a tad low=100-110
Everything in the tank looks great and, as you can see above, water quality is pristene. In the last two seeks I have lost two trochus snails and several turbos. They become lathargic and fall over a lot and then they just die. The last trochus in the tank hasn't moved in over a week, but he's still alive...he's not eating and he just sticks to the rock in one spot. The last trochus that dies did the same thing and was just dead the other morning.
Today I found five turbos on their backs...I have never had to flip that many in one day before.
What can this be? All other inhabitants look healthy. Corals look great and open fine, cleaner shrimp looks healthy and eats well, hermits look fine, and the fish are fat and happy.
Can it be a snail disease?
My copper test is malfunctioning, but if this were some metal poisoning wouldn't the corals or the shrimp start getting sick before all the snails?
Could my shrooms be battling my other corals and poisoning the water? I do run fresh carbon all the time and these corals lived in closer quarters in last tank with no problems.
Thanks for your input everyone!