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zandriab
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I have a tank that is going great right now, but my brother is not quite as lucky. He ha a 65 gallon with live rock which is covered in a short haired reddish brown algae. (very ugly) It is not red slime or anything like it as it does not blow off. In fact to get it off you have to scub hard for about 5 minutes to get down to the coraline it is covering. As far as I can tell I'm guessing it is a turf algae. We thought some crabs would help as all of his had either died off of been eaten by his wrasse.
:help: That's where the problem comes in. We put about 30 blue legs, 5 zebras, and 2 emeralds in his tank yesterday. Where everyone was active in the bucket during acclimation once they hit the tank they turned completely lethargic in the tank, hardy moving at all. After about 4 hours they all still lay in the same spot they had been dropped. (I added a similar number of crabs to my tank with the exact same acclimation and they are diligently cleaning everything in sight!) We captured all the crabs back into a bucket, used the water from my tank to see if we could save them and in about 10 minutes, they were crawling all around again.
His water quality is 0 nitites, about 30 nitrates, perfect PH, 0 amonia. Are there any other levels that would affect the crabs but not fish (they are fit as a fiddle) that we could check?
So summed up:
1. Why are all the crabs dying?
2. How on earth do you get rid of the turf algae!!!!!
:help: That's where the problem comes in. We put about 30 blue legs, 5 zebras, and 2 emeralds in his tank yesterday. Where everyone was active in the bucket during acclimation once they hit the tank they turned completely lethargic in the tank, hardy moving at all. After about 4 hours they all still lay in the same spot they had been dropped. (I added a similar number of crabs to my tank with the exact same acclimation and they are diligently cleaning everything in sight!) We captured all the crabs back into a bucket, used the water from my tank to see if we could save them and in about 10 minutes, they were crawling all around again.
His water quality is 0 nitites, about 30 nitrates, perfect PH, 0 amonia. Are there any other levels that would affect the crabs but not fish (they are fit as a fiddle) that we could check?
So summed up:
1. Why are all the crabs dying?
2. How on earth do you get rid of the turf algae!!!!!