atcone
New Member
I purchased a clean up crew from saltwaterfish.com 50-100 gal everthing was fine. two of five peppermint shrimp dissapeared soon after intaduction to the tank. lost a handfull of hermit crabs too. just chauked it up to strees from shipping. But now after about three weeks my astrea snails are bitting the dust, saw one of my brittle stars chowing down on a emrald crab only can find one of four of them, and now one of my three brittle stars is MIA.( Iknow they can hide good, but Ihave seen all three every day somewhere in the tank.)All the test reveal 0 nitrate,nitite,ammonia. ph ok. salinity good and has been consistant. the only change was I went on a long weekend and left the lights off to prevent an overgroth of algea. I figured the crew would love low light levels (there all I have in there now).
Any Ideas? I got the tank used it's acylic. been up and running for about 2.5 months now. crew has been in about 3-4 weeks.
I read on this forum if copper was ever used in the tank it could be a problem. should I test for that?
Any Ideas? I got the tank used it's acylic. been up and running for about 2.5 months now. crew has been in about 3-4 weeks.
I read on this forum if copper was ever used in the tank it could be a problem. should I test for that?