Hello, recently I had a weird issue with my invertebrate, I have 2 tanks, one 35 gallon salt water tank, and one 60 gallon tank, both of these tanks are over 5 years old with no water changed ever on them, here are the specs:
1. Type & how long you have had it: 5 years
2. Current lighting & Bulb Age: led strip lighting, homemade, for a few months, before I had regular led/florescent tube lighting
3. Nitrate: 0 ppm
4. Calcium: don't know
5. Phosphate: don't know
6. Alkalinity: don't know
7. pH: 8.4
8. Salinity: 28-30 ppt
9. Temperature: 73
10. Liquid or strip test kits: saltwater liquid master test kit (tests PH, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite)
11. Location in tank: what?... in the living room
12. Current amount of flow: good
13. Current tank dosing regimen: ?
14. Nearby coral: no
15. Nitrite: 15 ppm
16. Ammonia: 0 ppm
17. Explanation of problem: When I put in new invertebrate in the large tank, they just freeze up and look like they are dead, but they are breathing and if you gently touch them (with my feed stick) or tap on the glass, they spaze out a little, but in my smaller tank, when I put them there, they came back to normal,
At first the pH level was 7.8, so I rose it back to 8.4 (the tank was almost unused for a few months, a infection killed all my fish) with a PH buffer,
So I put back the invertebrate to the big tank, and some went back to being "frozen" and some stayed normal, I guessed the rest would come back to normal...
But didn't, for a week, and now in my small tank, I have some spider crabs and other invertebrate that just also froze up, with the same symptoms, I made tests on both tanks, 1 week before and now, and for the small tank everything is the same (pH nitrite ammonia nitrate) whats going on??? in my algae scrubber/rain system filter I have a blue crab that eats waste, but hes not frozen unlike the rest, please help
1. Type & how long you have had it: 5 years
2. Current lighting & Bulb Age: led strip lighting, homemade, for a few months, before I had regular led/florescent tube lighting
3. Nitrate: 0 ppm
4. Calcium: don't know
5. Phosphate: don't know
6. Alkalinity: don't know
7. pH: 8.4
8. Salinity: 28-30 ppt
9. Temperature: 73
10. Liquid or strip test kits: saltwater liquid master test kit (tests PH, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite)
11. Location in tank: what?... in the living room
12. Current amount of flow: good
13. Current tank dosing regimen: ?
14. Nearby coral: no
15. Nitrite: 15 ppm
16. Ammonia: 0 ppm
17. Explanation of problem: When I put in new invertebrate in the large tank, they just freeze up and look like they are dead, but they are breathing and if you gently touch them (with my feed stick) or tap on the glass, they spaze out a little, but in my smaller tank, when I put them there, they came back to normal,
At first the pH level was 7.8, so I rose it back to 8.4 (the tank was almost unused for a few months, a infection killed all my fish) with a PH buffer,
So I put back the invertebrate to the big tank, and some went back to being "frozen" and some stayed normal, I guessed the rest would come back to normal...
But didn't, for a week, and now in my small tank, I have some spider crabs and other invertebrate that just also froze up, with the same symptoms, I made tests on both tanks, 1 week before and now, and for the small tank everything is the same (pH nitrite ammonia nitrate) whats going on??? in my algae scrubber/rain system filter I have a blue crab that eats waste, but hes not frozen unlike the rest, please help