Flame/Elect Scallop died

[sharkman24]

Ok my Flame and Electric Scallops died this week, any ideas why
nothing else has died in my tank since I set it up over 5 months ago, I also have a sandsifting star that seems to be loosing pieces off of its legs,not the leg it self just segments, any ideas??

 

[daniel411]

I've had one that lived probally 4 months before dying. I believe they actually require a slightly dirty tank to filter nutrients out, and phytoplankton, etc. Not sure, I've always heard that its pretty much just not going to make it in most aquariums.

 

[aarone]

could be an excess of copper in your water. Inverts are very intolerable of that. Are you using tap or RO water?

 

[michaeltx]

scallops need dirty water high in food matter to survive. if the water is to clean the will stavre to death. in our reef tanks they usually last only a few months because we keep the water to clean. I kept one for almost a year in a fishonly tank without a skimmer and it did very well. the one I had in my reef died within a few months of ading it to the tank.
Mike

 

[sharkman24]

Im using tap water,, all my other inverts are doing fine just the flame and elect, scallops.

 

[killafins]

check for copper in your tap water...
ALso how are your nitrites/nitrates???