I have recently lost my conch, just got a new one after about a week or two. I had a bloom of diatoms in the sand (brown normal looking). This smaller conch has not cleaned them up yet, he seems a bit timid still. Anyways I come home today to find pecks of sand that are white again...at first I attributed to my nassus snails moving about. Then I realized by Leopard had a full belly....hoping this wasnt a bacterial infection of some sort I just watched for about 10 minutes. She is literally eating the brown coating of diatoms (at least i think thats what this is!). I got real close and made sure she wasnt picking copapods off the sand (I know they tend to pick at these when avaliable) and I could see none.
Is this normal behavior? She is legit taking in mouth fulls of this stuff and has a packed belly. I am positive shes eating it. And it looks exactly like a diatoms. Do I have a cause for concern here guys? Any help would be appreciated! I have been doing weekly 20% water changes, all my corals are fine and my possum wrasse seems healthy as can be. All my parameters are in check, minus my phosphates which are still a bit high. Everything else is good and the tanks seems healthy as can be other than this bloom of brown.
Is this normal behavior? She is legit taking in mouth fulls of this stuff and has a packed belly. I am positive shes eating it. And it looks exactly like a diatoms. Do I have a cause for concern here guys? Any help would be appreciated! I have been doing weekly 20% water changes, all my corals are fine and my possum wrasse seems healthy as can be. All my parameters are in check, minus my phosphates which are still a bit high. Everything else is good and the tanks seems healthy as can be other than this bloom of brown.
