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marine aquarium help?
ok so for some reason everythings dying in my tank. i check the water regulary so that’s fine i don’t know what it is. i got a starfish and about a week later it died. it’s leg had come off in 2 bits, a couple of his other legs at the tips had come off and had white stuff which looked like cotton coming out of them. then last night my cleaner shrimp died. it’s whisker – antenna things looked curly like they had been burnt. what the hell is going wrong with my tank!!! please help
You say your water tests are “fine” but it would be more helpful to list what you test and your results – there may be something you aren’t testing which could be the problem.
Check these parameters against results for your tank:
ammonia and nitrite = 0 (ideal) or less than 0.5 (if your tank is still cycling)
nitrate less than 20 (although lower is better)
pH 8.2 to 8.4
salinity 1.024-1.026
temperature 76-82o F
Do you keep any fish in the tank? Not all fish are safe with invertebrates, so one may have attacked them.
You don’t specify what type of starfish you had, but some of these are difficult to keep and feed, so if this was one of the more difficult species, it may not necessarily have been conditions in your tank. The problem may have been ongoing from the time of collection, or how it was kept in your dealer’s tank. See the difficulty level for yours: http://www.tropicalfishoutlet.com/InvertSubCategory.asp?InvertCategoryID=12
Apart from these, the thought of a mantis shrimp or crab is a possibility if you have live rock.
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