Friendly Fire
Member
In the last week my smaller snails have died and some of the larger snails have detached from the glass and they just dont look right. My torch coral has also stopped extending all the way out. My blue mushroom has kinda shriveled up....but still alive. I check the basic parameters and everything I am testing for looks good.
Temp 78
Salinity 1.025
API test kit
Ammonia - 0
Nitrites - 0
Nitrates - < 5 (hard to be exact with color wheels)
Ph - 8.1 - 8.3
Everything was fine until I went away on a business trip for five days. When I came back things just didn't seem right. My wife told me that the setting on my lights had changed to manual mode and that she had to manually turn them on and off. Manual mode is also 100% LED intensity and I usually never have the lights higher than 50%. That was the only thing that I know changed. So far I have fixed the lighting intensity and timer schedule, done a 20% water change, cleaned out my canister filter, added new CPE (carbon), added an additional 100ml Purigen, and done alot of wondering what it could be. It has been several days since I have done all the maintenance and still no improvement. I am looking now at getting more test kits to see if maybe I am missing something, and removing any snail that I think might have given up the ghost. But if those two things don't work I am out of ideas. Any suggestions on what to try next if things don't start looking better?
29gal nano
40lbs live rock
2in substrate
Fluval 306 canister filter (Carbon/GFO/Purigen)
No skimmer or sump
Temp 78
Salinity 1.025
API test kit
Ammonia - 0
Nitrites - 0
Nitrates - < 5 (hard to be exact with color wheels)
Ph - 8.1 - 8.3
Everything was fine until I went away on a business trip for five days. When I came back things just didn't seem right. My wife told me that the setting on my lights had changed to manual mode and that she had to manually turn them on and off. Manual mode is also 100% LED intensity and I usually never have the lights higher than 50%. That was the only thing that I know changed. So far I have fixed the lighting intensity and timer schedule, done a 20% water change, cleaned out my canister filter, added new CPE (carbon), added an additional 100ml Purigen, and done alot of wondering what it could be. It has been several days since I have done all the maintenance and still no improvement. I am looking now at getting more test kits to see if maybe I am missing something, and removing any snail that I think might have given up the ghost. But if those two things don't work I am out of ideas. Any suggestions on what to try next if things don't start looking better?
29gal nano
40lbs live rock
2in substrate
Fluval 306 canister filter (Carbon/GFO/Purigen)
No skimmer or sump