Father of 9 (soon to be 10) with 320 gallon system
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2 months since I turned the pumps onHello, Welcome to R2R!!
As I read through the tread the two recommendation I would have suggested have been said. ICP test and pull the concrete chuck.
How long has the system been setup?
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I posted previously as having a 90 gallon tank, with plans to move into a 180 gallon tank. 2 years ago there was an ice storm here in Oregon and my 90 gallon tank crashed.
I now have a 180 gallon tank with a 50 gallon (ish) sump, and a 90 gallon (my old tank) refugium.
I have 4 chromis and 4 firefish in the 180 who are doing fine. I tried to add some snails, hermit crabs, and emerald crabs. They all died. The crabs lasted a little longer than the snails, but everything died pretty quickly. The LFS owner I got them from talked about the possibility of heavy metals in the water. What's the best way to check for that? If that is the case, the only possible sources I can think of are a chunk of concrete in the water or the pump I use to transport water to the system from my salt water mixing system, which dies have rust on the bleeder plug. Should I eliminate one or both things right away, or test first? My best guess is the fish will be okay for now, and that every crustacean in my rock is already dead. Testing shows no ammonia, no nitrates, and 10 ppm of nitrate. I do have brown algae starting. I thought I knew what I was doing, since I was following the pattern that worked very well when starting my 90 gallon tank, but I guess still have much to learn.
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That's a pretty cool tank.
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Just got an email that Triton finally got the test. Waiting on results
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So Zinc and Copper were very high, phosphates are high
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Copper is great at killing snails.
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Triton recommends six 15% water changes after using Triton detox
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It sure is. Do you think the concrete is the probable source. There were some brown mounds on it that I thought were diatomaceous but could have been corrosion sprouting from metals in the concrete.
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Was the rock used? If it was from a QT it could have been treated with copper and soaked it up.
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Most of it was from my old tank and had been out I'm the weather in a plastic trash can. The new live rock was from an LFS in Salem, Oregon and was supposed to have crustaceans in it.
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