Hey all,
I just started up a new tank about a month ago. It started as a 14 gallon biocube with a pair of clownfish, 3 hermit crabs, 3 snails and a porcelain crab and about 20 lbs of cured live rock, zoas , star polyps and 2 mushrooms. I have checked all the levels several times and measured the salinity and kept the tank at about 75-78 degrees, everything seems to be in order.
The Star polyps never opened up and died within 3 days of being in the tank, checked all levels were fine. The mushrooms have opened up and flourished but the zoanthids closed up after about a week, shriveled a little and have now opened back up. There was a lime green algae almost looking stuff covering all my rocks and it has now turned mostly purple. I believe that it is coraline since it was turning pink and purple. NOW there is red slime all over the tank and it's covering up the purple coraline. I'm using a red slime remover to hopefully get rid of that...
The clownfish have been fine but my porcelain crab just died today. He was hiding for about a week. Hanging out in the back of the tank behind some rocks and o only saw him two or three times before he died. I have no idea what killed him. I checked the levels again and everything is in order. None of the hermit crabs or clownfish ever bothered him so I'm just worried that I'm missing something. I used about 15 different API tests and I have tested the water about once a week. The only thing that was out of order at first was the salinity but I got that fixed pretty quickly. I just added the first dose of chemiclean red slime remover to the tank today. I'm hoping that that will work. I also noticed that there us a fluorescent fan worm looking thing growing off of one of my mushrooms.... not too sure what it is or if it is harmful. I don't want anyone else to die.
Does anyone have any ideas how to help my crabs? Any help is appreciated! Pictures of tank are attached!!
Thanks!!!
I just started up a new tank about a month ago. It started as a 14 gallon biocube with a pair of clownfish, 3 hermit crabs, 3 snails and a porcelain crab and about 20 lbs of cured live rock, zoas , star polyps and 2 mushrooms. I have checked all the levels several times and measured the salinity and kept the tank at about 75-78 degrees, everything seems to be in order.
The Star polyps never opened up and died within 3 days of being in the tank, checked all levels were fine. The mushrooms have opened up and flourished but the zoanthids closed up after about a week, shriveled a little and have now opened back up. There was a lime green algae almost looking stuff covering all my rocks and it has now turned mostly purple. I believe that it is coraline since it was turning pink and purple. NOW there is red slime all over the tank and it's covering up the purple coraline. I'm using a red slime remover to hopefully get rid of that...
The clownfish have been fine but my porcelain crab just died today. He was hiding for about a week. Hanging out in the back of the tank behind some rocks and o only saw him two or three times before he died. I have no idea what killed him. I checked the levels again and everything is in order. None of the hermit crabs or clownfish ever bothered him so I'm just worried that I'm missing something. I used about 15 different API tests and I have tested the water about once a week. The only thing that was out of order at first was the salinity but I got that fixed pretty quickly. I just added the first dose of chemiclean red slime remover to the tank today. I'm hoping that that will work. I also noticed that there us a fluorescent fan worm looking thing growing off of one of my mushrooms.... not too sure what it is or if it is harmful. I don't want anyone else to die.
Does anyone have any ideas how to help my crabs? Any help is appreciated! Pictures of tank are attached!!
Thanks!!!
