Well, this is a sort of two fold question, it has become apparent that my Yellow Tang is suffering from HLLR. It has two white spotches on either side of his body, his color has faded and his top fin has cuts in it. And I also believe that the cause of this is the fact that I've been very busy and my younger sister has been doing the feeding for the part month or two. She feeds them all just Marine flakes, clownfish, tangs all alike, nothing but marine flakes. Well I took some initiative a few weeks ago and changed things around.
Instead of using chemically treated tap water for water changes, I decided to go the extra step and now I purchase gallons of distlled water from the supermarket, about 20 gallons at a time, usually costs me about 12 dollars and I just add salt, mix, let the power head run through it for the whole day and add it into the tank at night. Well this has sort of cured my red slime algae problem that I had, but I still have two problems.
These little white dots appear on the underside of
LR, filters, and the back of the aquarium. I was told these are sort of tiny worms that live in these little shells, but they're kinda getting out of hand. Also, I only had a red slime algae problem previously, which is gone, but now I have this hair algae problem which has now shown it's face. I tested the water and Ph is perfect, ammonia, nitrates and nitrites are 0. Salinity, well it's a little more than it should be, around 1.027 but I usually add a bottle of fresh water every now and then to get it under control.
My question is, is it ok to use distilled water? I'd rather not make a purcahse of a
RO Unit, much happier spending 14 dollars every two weeks.
And ideas on the algae problem?
For some reason every time I move the
LR around while gravel cleaning, these little transparent bodies of really tiny looking shrimp float around. They look like discarded shells, is this something I should be worried about?
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