My tank has been running since Christmas day.
I took a water sample and pics to the LFS - here is what they told me. The star hs some sort of bacteria and may either recover or die.
The phospahtes and nitrates are high, which he said is feeding the algea and killing the snails, which are then decomposing, causing the phospahates and nitrates to stay high, therefor killing any more sails I put in the tank and feeding more algea - nasty cycle. He said the level are also probably what killed my tree coral.
So he said to do weekly water changes and put a bag of phosphate remover in the filter - have weekly water tests (they do them for free), and bring in pic of tank each time, plus keep track of how oftern I have to scrape algea off the glass. Do this for a month and then after a month if everything is looking ok we can add more snails.
Does this sound good?
I also talked to him about my black and white clown - she keeps raming her head into my hand and arm when I am cleaning the tank. He said she is just letting me know it is her tanki and she does not want me in it. He also said she could bite. Have you ever heard of this with a clown?
