Its Thusday, not a particularlly exciting day for me. School in the morning, followed by work in the pm. As for my tank. I had to lay to rest another one of my pepermint shrimp last night. It turned milky and laid on its back, kicking its legs for a while, then passed on.
This bothers me. A friend of mine suggested that maybe I had copper in my system. This would be the biggest of my fears, and continues to be. I am doing a twenty percent water change later today, as well as installing a second return pump. This one will be a mag5, to go along with my mag 7 equivalent.
I realize it is a little unconventional to run two return pumps, but i need to get some more flow. As you can see from my picture, i have my lockline branching several times, off of a mag7! So as one could asume, I am suffering from some substantial headloss. I feell like this second pumps will also act as a backup, should my one pump decide to fail.
I have also introduced some new algae into my tank this week, given to me by a friend (thanks Reef Ninja), as well as a new piece of live rock. I believe I am beginning to see some coraline algea growth on the back wall of my tank, as well my sand changed from a brown diatom colour to a pleasing purple color. This was after adding start smart bacteria on the reccommendation of Scott Ruff @ Ruff Waters.
Other exciting news includes: The introduction of a small frogspawn frag... Which is not doing that great due to a fall, and possibly close encounter with a mushroom. As well a small frag of SPS, which was given to me, mostly as an expirement, to see if it would survive under my strictly LED lighting scheme.
In other news, my mushrooms and snails are doing fantastic. I now have at least a dozn small, "baby snails" that i did not buy from a LFS. My mushrooms have multiplied from one, to around five now. They are green speckled in variety. This is the only thing that leads me to believe that it was in fact not a copper problem that killed my shrimp.
One more final thing. I found this starfish on the back of my turbo snail. I was wondering if anyone knew what species it was, also if it is pestulant. Thanks for reading!!!
. I need to get my water more substantially tested.As for my other invertabrates, they are all doing fine, my snails are breeding like crazy, my shrooms are doing awesome,I am even seeing some polyp extension on my small sps frag.
Thank you for all the responses! Keep them comming
are you trying to achieve more flow through your sump, or have more flow in your display for the corals? You want somewhat slower flow through the sump to give it time to process all the excess nutrients and filter it out. Get a koralia or some other powerhead if you want flow through the display.
Running two pumps could mean a fail safe if one pump goes out, but what happens more often is the drain to the sump gets clogged, and now you have two pumps drying the sump out and overflowing the display. Just be cautious of that.
Do you have a picture of your sand that turned a pleasing purple color? Sounds like cyano. It happens. it's due to an excess of nutrients.
Frogspawns are usually not affected by mushrooms. I dont think that is what is bothering it.
If the star you found is like the one in the picture, they are pests. There are a few different kinds of asterinas, and one of them munches on zoanthids. I would rather not chance it and wonder if you have the zoanthid eating ones, get them out.
How long has this set up been up and running?
www.google.com/imgres?q=asterina+starfis...r:9,s:18&tx=37&ty=54
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