Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[SashimiTurtle]

They're so hardy and easy to keep but seems they become prey to fish and/or disease for some reason

My last ones were victim to heavy metal poisoning.

 

[sfin52]

My last ones were victim to heavy metal poisoning.

I remember that tough times. Good seeing your tank come around

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I remember that tough times. Good seeing your tank come around

No more of that sand... ever. I'm sure it was the cause of 2 betta deaths also

 

[sfin52]

No more of that sand... ever. I'm sure it was the cause of 2 betta deaths also

Your experiences stopped me from adding to my fowlr.

 

[sfin52]

@Robin Haselden do you still have smiley. (Skull). If you do are you still adding encrusting corals on it

 

[Katrina71]

Stopped me from getting it for Andrew.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

@Robin Haselden do you still have smiley.

Yes :D

 

[sfin52]

Yes :D

Love it. Looks like it was made your your tank. That looks gnarly

 

[sfin52]

*back story* @Robin Haselden used black sand in a build. Turned out the sand contained medals that leatched out. The heavy metal poising. Took a lot to figure out. A sample was mailed and tested. I don't remember who tested.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Love it. Looks like it was made your your tank. That looks gnarly

Blaze calls it home...

 

[SashimiTurtle]

*back story* @Robin Haselden used black sand in a build. Turned out the sand contained medals that leatched out. The heavy metal poising. Took a lot to figure out. A sample was mailed and tested. I don't remember who tested.

@Brew12 was kind enough to run it thru an electron microscope at his job. The sand by then had mostly leached out, but traces of vanadium and large deposits of nickel were found. The two metals I have the most of were vanadium and nickel. I have since learned that vanadium is easily dissolved in salt water, so it came out first amd in the most toxic quantities. Over 2000ppm at its highest concentration if I remember.

This is the thread that documented my ICP results and the electron microscope results.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/triton-results-high-sn-ni-mo-and-v.346872/

 

[Why-Me]

It's supposed to be a fish tank not a wrench tank ;Smuggrin

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Anyone wondering, this is the exact sand to avoid... it's the Tahitian Moon color and I'm certain it has been discontinued by Caribsea for killing freshwater fish.

 

[Why-Me]

Anyone wondering, this is the exact sand to avoid... it's the Tahitian Moon color and I'm certain it has been discontinued by Caribsea for killing freshwater fish.

So super and so natural they left the rare earth metals intact in the sand...

 

[SashimiTurtle]

It's supposed to be a fish tank not a wrench tank ;Smuggrin

Probably could have forged a wrench with the metal content of my water. 500ppm nickel at one point.

BTW, DO NOT use H2O2 in a metal contaminated tank. Instantly oxidizes everything in the tank. Zoas close up instantly and melt in hours...

 

[sfin52]

Anyone wondering, this is the exact sand to avoid... it's the Tahitian Moon color and I'm certain it has been discontinued by Caribsea for killing freshwater fish.

I believe it was recalled

 

[SashimiTurtle]

So super and so natural they left the rare earth metals intact in the sand

We figured the lava went thru a metal vein when it came thru the earth. Whatever was in it when collected, got pulverized and went right into the bags.

My tip off after finding so much metal on ICP was dragging a magnet thru the sand looking for a screw or razor, picking it up and all the sand was stuck to the magnet. Brew offered to test it before the magnet, but while the sample was in the mail, I was pulling sand out and throwing it away.

FWIW, the "Hawaiian Black" sand was tested also in the above thread. It had trace amounts of iron, which should be ok if you have a fuge to use it up... but I wont trust anything but pure white aragonite sand from now on.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I believe it was recalled

I believe you're right.

 

[living_tribunal]

I swear, some people on here can be so frustrating. People take idioms of the hobby and use them to excuse everything.

If another person tells me to stop chasing numbers when I'm trying to figure out how to increase phosphates to combat dino, I'm going to drink this bottle of hydrogen peroxide.

Lol, let me just leave my tank alone and starve my corals of nutrition while allowing dino to bloom unfettered in the name of "letting the tank work itself out".

Facepalm. My rant is over, I promise.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I swear, some people on here can be so frustrating. People take idioms of the hobby and use them to excuse everything.

If another person tells me to stop chasing numbers when I'm trying to figure out how to increase phosphates to combat dino, I'm going to drink this bottle of hydrogen peroxide.

Lol, let me just leave my tank alone and starve my corals of nutrition while allowing dino to bloom unfettered in the name of "letting the tank work itself out".

Facepalm. My rant is over, I promise.

I've been thru the ringer in the hobby... and I think a happy medium is the best approach in normal situations. Dont chase numbers but let them tell you where they want to be, within reason.

When having issues that effect the health of your tank and leaving it be would cause certain damage. Chase the numbers...