TankYouVeryMuch
Active Member
I had a crash a few weeks ago and have been trying it cover ever since. I’ve made many posts about it here but am typically met with silence. t this point I’ll just say that I think I have dinos and I think they’re something unusual.
They’re smaller than expected. The shape is different. But they seem to be toxic as hell assuming that’s what’s killing things (a big assumption). Aside from a single instance in which I got some kind of brown, foamy stuff that was dinoesque, about the most I see is a brown coating in rocks and sand occasionally.no stringy snot. The brown coating will generate bubbles sometimes.
I used some strip tests from Amazon and they matched with what my higher quality drop tests showed. The strip tests also show no presence of iron or copper, and everything tests good to ideal.
Today I bought a hermit and a snail. I began drop acclimation and almost immediately the hermit crab started panicking and the snail started shriveling. Half an hour after going into the tank it was dead. The hermit seems ok for now.
Meanwhile, an urchin and another snail survive in the tank by hanging out as close to the waterline as possible. My fish are OK, but so far every invert other than the ones listed has died. Starfish, snails, hermits, conchs.
I am trying to raise my silicates. I’ve been dosing a drop of 41% waterglass every single day (watching ph, which is stable). My nitrate is now up to from feeding and turning off skimmer, but I bought ammonium and sodium phosphate to start dosing using Randy’s recommendations. no visible changes after a week.
If this doesn’t work, I’m going to nuke the tank—remove the sand, add a snail to test, and it that doesn’t work remove a rock and try again. If necessary I’ll bleach the rocks. I’ll bleach the whole dang tank. Maybe I can inject UV into the animals…
I can direct people to the posts covering the extensive, book length details about everything I have tried and the complex series of events that precipitated the crash. All I know now is that I have a microscope video of some critters that no one seems able to identify as dinos. So either I have one of the other 2000 species than the four commonly found in tanks, or people just can’t tell from my videos. I’ll also note that I’ve been dealing with wise chronic health issues than normal including burning eyes, so maybe it’s dino toxins. My cats are acting odd too.
They’re smaller than expected. The shape is different. But they seem to be toxic as hell assuming that’s what’s killing things (a big assumption). Aside from a single instance in which I got some kind of brown, foamy stuff that was dinoesque, about the most I see is a brown coating in rocks and sand occasionally.no stringy snot. The brown coating will generate bubbles sometimes.
I used some strip tests from Amazon and they matched with what my higher quality drop tests showed. The strip tests also show no presence of iron or copper, and everything tests good to ideal.
Today I bought a hermit and a snail. I began drop acclimation and almost immediately the hermit crab started panicking and the snail started shriveling. Half an hour after going into the tank it was dead. The hermit seems ok for now.
Meanwhile, an urchin and another snail survive in the tank by hanging out as close to the waterline as possible. My fish are OK, but so far every invert other than the ones listed has died. Starfish, snails, hermits, conchs.
I am trying to raise my silicates. I’ve been dosing a drop of 41% waterglass every single day (watching ph, which is stable). My nitrate is now up to from feeding and turning off skimmer, but I bought ammonium and sodium phosphate to start dosing using Randy’s recommendations. no visible changes after a week.
If this doesn’t work, I’m going to nuke the tank—remove the sand, add a snail to test, and it that doesn’t work remove a rock and try again. If necessary I’ll bleach the rocks. I’ll bleach the whole dang tank. Maybe I can inject UV into the animals…
I can direct people to the posts covering the extensive, book length details about everything I have tried and the complex series of events that precipitated the crash. All I know now is that I have a microscope video of some critters that no one seems able to identify as dinos. So either I have one of the other 2000 species than the four commonly found in tanks, or people just can’t tell from my videos. I’ll also note that I’ve been dealing with wise chronic health issues than normal including burning eyes, so maybe it’s dino toxins. My cats are acting odd too.
