KrazyTurbo
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First Question:
Last night my green chormis started swimming verticle and hideing over by the filter. He had a very long poop? hanging out for hours. I could not get to him to help him because of his location. After a water test I found nothing wrong. PH 8.3, temp 78, nitrates 0, ammonia 0, copper 0, salinity in the green area of my floating meter. It has been days seince i've dosed my tank with anything, added any chemicals, or even opend the lid for other than feeding and topoff. I've even tested my RO water and all was good.
My clown is doing perfect, my hermit is doing perfect.
The chormis was near death this morning, floating sideways and verticle near the top not moving (even if you touched him) yet his gills were moving. I removed him from the tank and retested the water all was fine.
Do you happen to know what caused this??
I get my paycheck today and I wanted to go to the LFS today but im a bit scared about that. I will do a 3rd test and wait for response on what the cause my be.
Second question:
I need a better clean up crew, I have a 12gal DX. I have a good ammount of the red hard algae on the glass and a good ammount of brown in my sand that need to be cleaned up, what do you reccomend?
Also, I wanted to buy 2 new fish and maybe a coral today. What is your reccomendation on that? I want hardy fish like my clown that are little troopers that keep on going and going.
Thanks for your time!
-Sean
In this post "you" is referring to any experianced reef tank owners.
Last night my green chormis started swimming verticle and hideing over by the filter. He had a very long poop? hanging out for hours. I could not get to him to help him because of his location. After a water test I found nothing wrong. PH 8.3, temp 78, nitrates 0, ammonia 0, copper 0, salinity in the green area of my floating meter. It has been days seince i've dosed my tank with anything, added any chemicals, or even opend the lid for other than feeding and topoff. I've even tested my RO water and all was good.
My clown is doing perfect, my hermit is doing perfect.
The chormis was near death this morning, floating sideways and verticle near the top not moving (even if you touched him) yet his gills were moving. I removed him from the tank and retested the water all was fine.
Do you happen to know what caused this??
I get my paycheck today and I wanted to go to the LFS today but im a bit scared about that. I will do a 3rd test and wait for response on what the cause my be.
Second question:
I need a better clean up crew, I have a 12gal DX. I have a good ammount of the red hard algae on the glass and a good ammount of brown in my sand that need to be cleaned up, what do you reccomend?
Also, I wanted to buy 2 new fish and maybe a coral today. What is your reccomendation on that? I want hardy fish like my clown that are little troopers that keep on going and going.
Thanks for your time!
-Sean
In this post "you" is referring to any experianced reef tank owners.