Snails need to eat, but there is nothing for them to eat in your tank
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EricTMah
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We will try our best to help the best we can.
Does the store you deal with do free water testing? If yes, bring them a sample of your water for a second test for comparison to your own results.
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Does the store you deal with do free water testing? If yes, bring them a sample of your water for a second test for comparison to your own results.
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EricTMah
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For your snails to have melted in just two days strikes me as a bit odd.
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He uses aquarium by design iirc. I can assume whomever he has been dealing with does not know the data on these lights. Then again, they are only available if you ask and I had to ask twice to get what I needed. Fluval advertising is very deceiving.
YeAh I did bring water in to get tested everything the same there's nothing like what wrong with my tank o swear it's lights or waters to pure ? And when I had snails I had the brownish algee got snails to clean it (didn't help they were lazy) and died to I got a sponge cleaned it all up hasn't came back in like 4 months
EricTMah
Aquariums by Design
Sorry guys. But I'm going to have to bow out of this discussion. It might become a conflict of interest as I am employed by Aquariums By Design. But have no association with their retail store.
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heath
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I have a 30" odessy here that extends longer that you can borrow if you can get to Woodstock or know of someone close to grab it for it..
Oh, and yes, you have LPS and softies, but ones that would be labeled difficult to keep. A lot of experienced reefers can't keep bta's, elegance or sunny d zoas.
Not nessicairly hard to keep, but I would not recommend them to beginners as they are finicky. IMHO, based on the info emailed from Fluval, the lights perform exactly as advertised, but they do not meet the requirements for the corals you are purchasing other then the mushrooms. But even some mushrooms are more difficult to place and care for.
My suggestion would be to get a new light and to feed a little more, Eben sit down the sooner for a few days. Maybe give it a good cleaning just because. Cabbage coral looks okay, a little limp from others I have seen. Maybe someone else can come in there
For a 20 gallon...I would need to be home to Google shit, but for $200 you could probably get 2 PAR38 full spectrum bulbs. You would just need a way to hang them about 6-8" above the water line.
heath
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not sure I can look in the morning, its packed in the closet of the fish room, I use on my qt tank.. it was bought originally for my 30 gal coral tank and I had great results with it..I bought it off of ebay and with shipping from TX the cost was less than 150.00..I'm thinking that its 54 w..its a T5HO QUAD...
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Even with no food snails would last for weeks before they starved...and the cabbage looks very limp and that has nothing to do with the lights as they need very little...(my unlit sump was full of them when I had them in my fish system)
No pond pumps with plated bronze hardware leaching copper (caught me once) or any other potential sources of contamination?
Using a refractometer to test salinity on tank and makeup water?
I am a firm believer in stability being the key and most tank crashes are snowball effects. We start making changes to fix one problem...the changes cause more issues so we change more and soon nothing can adapt to the conditions.
Guys I'm at a point of giving cup I spent well over 1000$ for a 20 gallon and there's o my 2 options
1 - wrong lights
2- water is to clean and not enought stuff left over for corals .
I'm at the point of wanted to give it all up because im so fed up of spending
Money on things like the fluval light (200) and I can only keep mushroom and stuff that's super easy , I want zoas ! Nothing harder then that .. The store probably won't take my lights back because opend and I don't even know how much I'd get for em used , is it possible to add something to boost up the wattage on one side of the tank for like around 100$ ? And I could keep zoas and elegance under ?
1 - wrong lights
2- water is to clean and not enought stuff left over for corals .
I'm at the point of wanted to give it all up because im so fed up of spending
Money on things like the fluval light (200) and I can only keep mushroom and stuff that's super easy , I want zoas ! Nothing harder then that .. The store probably won't take my lights back because opend and I don't even know how much I'd get for em used , is it possible to add something to boost up the wattage on one side of the tank for like around 100$ ? And I could keep zoas and elegance under ?
heath
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don't give up Luke, we have all been there and we are all here to help.. very few of us have unlimited budgets and I know that when I got into it I made more mistakes and bought the wrong stuff more than anyone else here by listening to stores..
if you want to borrow my lights to see if that will help you are welcome, I don't have anything going into the qt tank for awhile and where its sitting it gets enough sunlight...
if you want to borrow my lights to see if that will help you are welcome, I don't have anything going into the qt tank for awhile and where its sitting it gets enough sunlight...