Rosefox
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Hi,
I have a 48 litre River Reef, which currently holds 1 Clown, three hermits, toadstall coral and polyps. The lighting is 9 months old, came with the tank. Water tests show all is fine and at correct levels. I've had the tank since March 2010. I have fours pieces of live rock, two pieces are new, and since i added it I have had an algae infestation that I cannot get rid of it. It looks like green hair - I bought another pump for water flow, tried a ball of macr algae, but it covered that and the micro drops, but the algae is on a mission and has already killed off a lot of the polyp corals. I now use a toothbrush to get rid of it. Apart from the algae problem, I had a starfish, which went under the gravel two weeks ago and has never returned. it is a gravel feeder, but surely two weeks is a long time not to come out? My new problem however is with the mysterious deaths of my cleaner shrimp - one died on Sunday evening - on Sat it was happy and eating, and Sun morning it was dead, everything was intact, he wasn't eaten by anything. The next day the other shrimp is writhing around and drops down dead. The coral look healthy, the fish and hermits are fine and the coral is out. Things I did differently - water change on the Saturday with new water i bought from store - salted RO. But I have no idea what could have killed both my shrimp within 24 hours?
I have a 48 litre River Reef, which currently holds 1 Clown, three hermits, toadstall coral and polyps. The lighting is 9 months old, came with the tank. Water tests show all is fine and at correct levels. I've had the tank since March 2010. I have fours pieces of live rock, two pieces are new, and since i added it I have had an algae infestation that I cannot get rid of it. It looks like green hair - I bought another pump for water flow, tried a ball of macr algae, but it covered that and the micro drops, but the algae is on a mission and has already killed off a lot of the polyp corals. I now use a toothbrush to get rid of it. Apart from the algae problem, I had a starfish, which went under the gravel two weeks ago and has never returned. it is a gravel feeder, but surely two weeks is a long time not to come out? My new problem however is with the mysterious deaths of my cleaner shrimp - one died on Sunday evening - on Sat it was happy and eating, and Sun morning it was dead, everything was intact, he wasn't eaten by anything. The next day the other shrimp is writhing around and drops down dead. The coral look healthy, the fish and hermits are fine and the coral is out. Things I did differently - water change on the Saturday with new water i bought from store - salted RO. But I have no idea what could have killed both my shrimp within 24 hours?