Mook Man
02/18/2009, 08:01 PM
I just saw the other dude's post about a missing anemone and cloudy water but I wanted to dedicate a new thread to my recently departed RBTA - I too came home today to a cloudy tank, tiny pieces of florescent red tentacles circulating around my tank, and a mangled foot swaying aimlessly on a piece of live rock.
Just got done with an emergency 25% water change, all I had, my corals seem to be okay for now, still open and still getting PE from my SPS, fish are swimming around, ate all of the couple pellets I tossed them...I tested for ammonia and there are traces of it showing up, maybe 0.2 ppm - what would the best course of action be going forward? Water changes every day to keep nitrates down as the ammonia is processed? My tank params were pristine before today:
1.025 sg
ammonia, nitrate, phosphate undetectable
450 ppm Ca
1200 Mg
...and so forth
I am currently cleaning the neck of my skimmer every 15-30 minutes while it bubbles what's left of the anemone out of the water - will continue for the next 4 hours until bed time.
Just got done with an emergency 25% water change, all I had, my corals seem to be okay for now, still open and still getting PE from my SPS, fish are swimming around, ate all of the couple pellets I tossed them...I tested for ammonia and there are traces of it showing up, maybe 0.2 ppm - what would the best course of action be going forward? Water changes every day to keep nitrates down as the ammonia is processed? My tank params were pristine before today:
1.025 sg
ammonia, nitrate, phosphate undetectable
450 ppm Ca
1200 Mg
...and so forth
I am currently cleaning the neck of my skimmer every 15-30 minutes while it bubbles what's left of the anemone out of the water - will continue for the next 4 hours until bed time.