BlueDolphin
Aquarium Advice Freak
hello everyone! i haven't posted on here in a loooong time, but i always search the forums whenever i have any concerns. so, i have a few questions. i have a 60 gallon tank that has been established for about 3 years or so. i have a blue tang, percula clown, rose bta, two peppermint shrimp, and various snails and crabs (including my favorite guy - "bluey" - an electric blue hermit). i am setting up my qt in preparation for a new fish addition, so i checked my water parameters today:
ammonia = 0
ates = 10
ites = 0.3
silicates = 1.16 ppm
kh = 7.7
alk = 2.74
and the odd reading (which has been the same since back in december):
calcium = >500 ppm
is this reading too high? i am using a salifert test kit. i don't have any corals (tried a few awhile back, but they never did well).
one more thing - i have an orange sea star that has been doing well since i first introduced him on 2/12/06. i dripped him for around 5 hours and tried my very best not to touch him or expose him to air. i haven't supplemented his feeding but, like i said, he has seemed to be doing fine until a few days ago. i found him curled up and the bottom of the tank and thought that was the end - but i didn't want to remove him just in case. good thing i didn't because two days later he was back up and moving on the glass. the only thing that concerns me is the tips of his legs are slightly curled and whitish in color. any ideas?
sorry for the long post. tia!
ammonia = 0
ates = 10
ites = 0.3
silicates = 1.16 ppm
kh = 7.7
alk = 2.74
and the odd reading (which has been the same since back in december):
calcium = >500 ppm
is this reading too high? i am using a salifert test kit. i don't have any corals (tried a few awhile back, but they never did well).
one more thing - i have an orange sea star that has been doing well since i first introduced him on 2/12/06. i dripped him for around 5 hours and tried my very best not to touch him or expose him to air. i haven't supplemented his feeding but, like i said, he has seemed to be doing fine until a few days ago. i found him curled up and the bottom of the tank and thought that was the end - but i didn't want to remove him just in case. good thing i didn't because two days later he was back up and moving on the glass. the only thing that concerns me is the tips of his legs are slightly curled and whitish in color. any ideas?
sorry for the long post. tia!