sivart33

ya here are some pics, when in a acclimation container, i got a hold of it and got some good pictures of it.

okay ill prob get some, been planning on it anyhow soon, but hopefully he does not pass away soon, cant get to the lfs for a couple days :/

the eye is white, puss on the eye looking. flaking scales looking around the eye?

trying to get a better pic jsut he hides alot

so i have no idea what this could be sorry about the bad picture. the fish hides well.

how to treat would be great also. i will look more around the internet, but this is prob the fastest way.

the LFS give away rodi water. ya getting some brown algea but nothing crazy...yet.

ill use rodi on my next water change.

oww ya also, my well has a water softener on it, i ahve not looked to far into what type of filter it is exactly, look like a huge rodi system will have to look into it more.

the LFS give away rodi water. ya getting some brown algea but nothing crazy...yet.

ill use rodi on my next water change.

well water, and what do you mean by dose?

its a little over a month old, used live sand/live rock. 30 gal no sump, just hob. and a powerhead for water flow. heater, temp does not change much at all. maybe 1 degree though out the day. 1.023 saliently also.

the snail wasnt a normally turbo snail. it was pink body with a blue line on the outer edge. wish i got pictures of it, also i tossed them, wish i kept them to bring back, but the acclamation could have been the issue but i thought i did it right ( first time)

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looks like a small button coral, just all brown and small. not saficent light on the tank yet to support corrals but that guys seems to live

yes it is glass, ill have to take the water in to get tested for copper, but i ahve some other inverts that have been in there since the start of the cycle that are doing fine. but ill have it checked to make sure. honestly i am hoping just for just bad luck with them and nothing wrong with my water.

i like to think my water is good and am proud of it.

not that, they have it down at the LFS just cant think of the name.

also to add, i am getting a small hitchhiker coral ( brown polup) growing, so i know my water cant be hiding something i am not aware of or at least i hope.

so my parameters are like so

ammonia: 0

no2: 0

no3: 0 ( or super super low)

ph its hard to read on my cheap test strips but seems like 8.2 ish

The tank has cycled great. had snail and a few crabs live through the not so ruff cycling with live rock (fresh).

i have never put copper in the tank, nor the water from the LFS.

now i picked up a snail( unknown) big 2 inch beauty. 1 hermit crab, and one sally lightfoot crap. i got them all 3 together, drip acclimated them all 3 at once for oww a good 1.5 hours. on saturday

First the sally light foot dies on sunday night or at least i noticed.

then this mourning the snail has kicked the bucket. they where both actively eating and moving around the first day and the snail both days.

and just found a dead small unknown crab hitchhiker

the hermit looks fine, eating away and have 2 clowns in the tank + hitchhikers ( emerald crap and a cerith snail) that i have found.

the tank peramaters have not changed since i put the inverts in. is there something i am missing. i got my water tested at the LFS when i got my invers and fish and both times it looked good (phosphate was tiny bit but nothing to worry bout is what i was told)

need some help? just bad live stock? just unlucky? didn't acclimated long enough?

well time to find a new lighting fixture. ill be looking around over the weekend, still on the cycling process. even though got the water tested and everything is perfect, well phosphate is a tiny bit up, but i mean minimal and will go away with water change.

so lighting is not a rush. should be putting in a few fish next weekend so hopefully get the lights by then so i don't have to worry bout it after fish, even though its not a big deal for fish.

ya ill see what my lfs sells for lighting, i like buying stuff in person rather then online since if it doesn't work i cant just go in and trade it, ill have to wait. the lfs may have bigger ones for there 75g set ups they sell as a package

ty for the input

ill have to look around though, i like the hood i got since it blocks off the evap more then a open top. maybe 1/2 a day if that. i know there are some 50/50 bulbs for it. i don't like open tops for some reason.

but ill have to look around. see what options i got

ill have to look around since my tank is 30 inches long, unless they are suppose to be front to back. ty now i know what to look for

mind tossing me a link to what you are looking at, there area ton i mean a ton of random crap up on ebay.

dont have a pay pal account... sucks but what ever. ill figure out a way. might just have to open one up

well ill return the light, cause pointless to keep if not going to have corals, i don't know much about lighting ill have to read up more about it.

not the biggest deal, only thing is i might have to buy something online since the LFS has a small amount of other stuff, other then fish and verts.

ya i am just starting out so no hard corals yet, so might as well start out with the easier corals and less intense light till i get more money/ bigger tank maybe

and i got another 10 lbs of live sand. still a little murky, also i cleaned out the filters and what not.

its is a very blue color, the box, yes they are into sell, that si for salt water tanks, corals and all. the k range is not on the box :/

so i went and got a bulb for my hood, a marine-glo t8. http://www.fosterandsmithaquatics.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=3812

but the 24" ones.

any have any idea how well they will work for corals, looked around but not finding any real info on them.

Seabeck is in Washington, the peninsula. ya if the purple thing is a sponge it is dead for sure, it has been exposed to air, if a coral it may not live much longer on 4k lighting. Has not grown any, but there is another one up on another rock. so ill have to see, the lighting is on about 12-14 hours a day though so try and have any corals on the rocks live if possible till i find adequate lighting.