first off how is everyone doing?
i've been real busy with work and haven't been on here as much as i'd like lately...
second... i've got problems!!!
last week i had what seems to have been a mass crab/snail/shrimp suicide/homicide pact.
over 3 days or so i lost like 4 shrimp numerous snails and at least 3 or 4 emerald crabs and a horse shoe crab.
the horse shoe crab was very exciting and i had him for oh... about 3 days... he was more fun than a barrel of monkeys... he was just so outta control and doing flips in the water swimming upside down etc... very enjoyable... but then he got sucked up into the power head... saddest ever... this is the 2nd animal i've lost this way... i lost a green chromis last month the same way...
anyway back to the problem at hand...
over those few days it seemed that everything in my tank was doomed!
so i did test on my water...
this was a week ago
Alk/dkh - 14˚dkh
Calcium - 400
Phosphate - 0-.25
Salinity - 1.025-1.026
Ammonia - 0-.25
Nitrate - 2.5
Nitrite - 20
PH - 8.2
nothing here really looked out of order too much here i didn't think...
and i did another test today
Alk/dkh - 12˚dkh
Calcium - 400
Phosphate - 0
Salinity - 1.025-1.026
Ammonia - 0-.25
Nitrate - 2.5
Nitrite - 5-10
PH - 8.2
i have some hair algae growing and what i think may be
cyanobacteria maybe... it started out a few days ago as just a film over one of my rocks but now its all wavy like hair bacteria...
i dont think the hair algae is way outta control... but as fast as that
cyanobacteria is growing im worried about it..
all i have in the tank right now is two green chromis whatever crabs and snails and shrimp didn't enter the pact two rock anemone and a few zoos so nothing crazy...
but i dont know what the deal is...
i left one day for a like a 2 or 3 hr errand before i leave i see one of my larger emerald crabs running around just doing whatever... then when i get back he is upside down dead... same thing with one of my nicer more healthy looking peppermint shrimp...
here are a few pics of what i've got going on...
my sand also looks like this...
and this is some kind of coral that was on my rock... i asked about an ID before and no one was quite sure what the deal was with it... they all started to bleach i guess maybe... so i moved them down some to see if they will recover... any ideas on how to take care of these guys?
they have little tenticles that come out and all but if you touch the orange parts they are really hard like rock...
so any ideas on why everything died? since then i haven't had anything that i've noticed dead...
i'm not AS worried about the algae it doesn't seem to be out of control yet... but the dead everything... that concerns me...
i appreciate all the help!
