This may be a silly question, but I've recently set up my first frag tank (repurpose quarantine tank that was just sitting around since I finished stocking my tank last July), I had it cleaned out, seeded with new Seachem matrix that was sitting in my other tank and effectively just running for months.
It started the ugly phase and I dropped a snail in from my display tank, which just sat there for a week. I didn't even think about it, but I tested alk and it was a lot higher than my display tank because I was using cheaper salt (reef crystals vs Tropic Marin) and there was a difference. I adjusted it and it is the same as my display tank for all parameters except nitrates and phosphates.
Is there risk of shock/death of CUC by moving them back and forth from the display and frag tank if the nitrates and phosphates differ? I want to be able to drop in a snail or hermit without acclimation each time. I am going to use the same salt going forward so I can move frags back and forth, but I plan on having higher nutrients since the frag tank is going to be just zoas and shrooms vs my SPS mixed reef.
It started the ugly phase and I dropped a snail in from my display tank, which just sat there for a week. I didn't even think about it, but I tested alk and it was a lot higher than my display tank because I was using cheaper salt (reef crystals vs Tropic Marin) and there was a difference. I adjusted it and it is the same as my display tank for all parameters except nitrates and phosphates.
Is there risk of shock/death of CUC by moving them back and forth from the display and frag tank if the nitrates and phosphates differ? I want to be able to drop in a snail or hermit without acclimation each time. I am going to use the same salt going forward so I can move frags back and forth, but I plan on having higher nutrients since the frag tank is going to be just zoas and shrooms vs my SPS mixed reef.