silver97
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Update
Tank has had a bit of an odd problem with the ph lately. It was low, in between 7.4 and 7.8 on my test kit, after my last water change. I added buffer 2 days in a row just to try and get it to even out. I didn't pay it much attention after that, because the corals all looked fine, and I know when my gorgonian looks a certain way the ph is off. It didn't have that, but apparently the ph was pretty low. It killed my emerald crab. After I saw the emerald crab dead, I looked into it more and the ph was now down to 7.4. so I got it back up to 7.8 now and everything is alive, but it was a very frustrating experience because the dang ph wouldn't balance!
I let the nassassarius snails eat the crab instead of taking him out, figured they would get more use out of it anyway than my trash can would. In 2 days he was meatless. Pretty cool to see them at work eating an actual dead sea creature. If one of my fish die I may do the same thing. And don't worry, the entire 2 days he was being eaten I was monitoring for a spike in ammonia, but no such spike occured. Just in case it did I threw a little Amquel in there to detoxify it.
I'm going to wait until after Chritsmas to get my new fish now. I may get some Petco giftcards, and with those Ill have more time to decide on which fish I'm going to get. Depending on what Petco has I guess. I might just use it as a store where I buy all of my supplies, but buy my fish at a specialty store. Whatever happens happens I guess
I realize I haven''t done any full tank shots in a while, but thats mostly because nothing new has happened in the tank. Next time I update, regardless if I have a new fish or not, I'll throw a few in
Tank has had a bit of an odd problem with the ph lately. It was low, in between 7.4 and 7.8 on my test kit, after my last water change. I added buffer 2 days in a row just to try and get it to even out. I didn't pay it much attention after that, because the corals all looked fine, and I know when my gorgonian looks a certain way the ph is off. It didn't have that, but apparently the ph was pretty low. It killed my emerald crab. After I saw the emerald crab dead, I looked into it more and the ph was now down to 7.4. so I got it back up to 7.8 now and everything is alive, but it was a very frustrating experience because the dang ph wouldn't balance!
I let the nassassarius snails eat the crab instead of taking him out, figured they would get more use out of it anyway than my trash can would. In 2 days he was meatless. Pretty cool to see them at work eating an actual dead sea creature. If one of my fish die I may do the same thing. And don't worry, the entire 2 days he was being eaten I was monitoring for a spike in ammonia, but no such spike occured. Just in case it did I threw a little Amquel in there to detoxify it.
I'm going to wait until after Chritsmas to get my new fish now. I may get some Petco giftcards, and with those Ill have more time to decide on which fish I'm going to get. Depending on what Petco has I guess. I might just use it as a store where I buy all of my supplies, but buy my fish at a specialty store. Whatever happens happens I guess
I realize I haven''t done any full tank shots in a while, but thats mostly because nothing new has happened in the tank. Next time I update, regardless if I have a new fish or not, I'll throw a few in