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Posted: November 11 2012 at 9:01pm |
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Has anyone ever seen anything in there tank that they can't explain?
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Posted: November 11 2012 at 9:57pm |
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Yup, twice.
Once many years ago I had a 40g sps dominant tank, and no matter what, my birdsnests, montis, and acros were dying. Come to find out later that is was low potassium...back before there were test kits or any real information on the symptoms.
The other time everything started dying...so I did water changes...and things kept getting worse. Thankfully I ran out of salt and switched to another brand. Turns out, it was a bad batch of salt.
I hate those weird random things.....
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Posted: November 12 2012 at 9:08am |
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Lucky on the salt thing, at least it didn't wipe out your whole tank. my one thing I couldnt explain was a couple of my chalices were receding couldn't figure out why. Just random sections would be gone. Until I put a new one in and my peppermint shrimp ate a eye and I caught the sneaky punk. Since he's been gone everything has been healing up nicely.
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Posted: November 12 2012 at 9:12am |
 ReefdUp wrote:
Yup, twice.
Once many years ago I had a 40g sps dominant tank, and no matter what, my birdsnests, montis, and acros were dying. Come to find out later that is was low potassium...back before there were test kits or any real information on the symptoms.
The other time everything started dying...so I did water changes...and things kept getting worse. Thankfully I ran out of salt and switched to another brand. Turns out, it was a bad batch of salt.
I hate those weird random things..... |
What do you mean bad batch of salt? Can salt go bad??
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Posted: November 12 2012 at 9:13am |
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Oh no, I lost just about everything with the bad salt. I had a 200g bucket and was doing water changes on a 40g...took a while to run out. Just glad we caught the problem before I tore everything down and gave up.
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Posted: November 12 2012 at 9:18am |
tfmreefs wrote:
ReefdUp wrote:
Yup, twice.
Once many years ago I had a 40g sps dominant tank, and no matter what, my birdsnests, montis, and acros were dying. Come to find out later that is was low potassium...back before there were test kits or any real information on the symptoms.
The other time everything started dying...so I did water changes...and things kept getting worse. Thankfully I ran out of salt and switched to another brand. Turns out, it was a bad batch of salt.
I hate those weird random things..... |
What do you mean bad batch of salt? Can salt go bad??
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A few years ago a particular company had at least one batch that was bad. Some reefkeepers in Europe had the same problem I was having and found it contained insane levels of organics. Not sure that was the problem, but it was the only thing we could easily test. We contacted the manufacturer and ne er heard back. I assume that sort of thing is rare...but look at what just happened with Kent's carbon.
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Posted: November 12 2012 at 10:18am |
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Oh, jeez I was thinking that you meant the salt can go "bad" Like food... haha I was going to say I leave my salt out sometimes:0 But I guess it cant go "rotten"
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Posted: November 12 2012 at 12:21pm |
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I had a Bobbitt worm once that was 30" long and no one knew it existed until we pulled the aquascaping apart and rebuilt the rock structure.
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Posted: November 13 2012 at 4:19am |
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I had a Bobbitt worm once that was 30" long and no one knew it existed until we pulled the aquascaping apart and rebuilt the rock structure. |
Ahhhhh!!!!! That's always been my worst fear.
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Posted: November 13 2012 at 7:40am |
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what is a bobbitt worm?
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Posted: November 13 2012 at 8:56am |
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looked online and it looked like a bristle worm??? Are they the same?
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Posted: November 13 2012 at 8:59am |
30 inches that's crazy! Found this molt one day had like a little be stinger. 
Edited by Dionysus - November 13 2012 at 9:07am
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Posted: November 13 2012 at 9:08am |
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Posted: November 13 2012 at 9:09am |
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No idea why they flipped sideways
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Posted: November 13 2012 at 7:30pm |
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Posted: November 13 2012 at 8:26pm |
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what is a bobbitt worm?
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They are worms in the genus Eunice. In the wild they can get up to 30-50 feet long. I think the longest one found in an aquarium so far was just over 6 feet long. Many are just scavengers, but like many wild things, they'll eat whatever in order to survive.
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Posted: November 15 2012 at 12:55pm |
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Reefdup any idea what my picture is? I was told it could be a molt of a rock crab?
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Posted: November 15 2012 at 12:57pm |
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Posted: November 15 2012 at 4:22pm |
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If I had to guess, I'd probably guess a mantis shrimp.
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Posted: November 15 2012 at 6:10pm |
Dionysus wrote:
Reefdup any idea what my picture is? I was told it could be a molt of a rock crab?
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Yeeesh, it's hard to tell from that photo (not even sure I'd know it if I saw it in person.) My best guess from the photo is a gall crab. How big was the molt? This is a live female for reference: 
Edited by ReefdUp - November 15 2012 at 6:17pm
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