I bought phyto from my lfs that the owners grandson is culturing. At first I had no problems but two weeks ago I added some to my reef and overnight a cleaner shrimp a scarlet shrimp and a blue coral banded suddenly disappeared. Today I replace the cleaner shrimp and added a Zanzibar coral banded shrimp around noon. Everything was fine, around 7pm I added more of the phyto and within minutes both new shrimp died. I think my pistol shrimp is toast too.
Parameters 78°pH8.2, Ammonia 0ppm, nitrite 0ppm, nitrate .23ppm, phosphate .6ppm, dkh 12. Everything else looks just fine. Fish are active and normal, corals all bright with extended polyps, snails cruising around doing their thing. All the shrimp just suddenly dead two times, correlation says its the phyto.
Parameters 78°pH8.2, Ammonia 0ppm, nitrite 0ppm, nitrate .23ppm, phosphate .6ppm, dkh 12. Everything else looks just fine. Fish are active and normal, corals all bright with extended polyps, snails cruising around doing their thing. All the shrimp just suddenly dead two times, correlation says its the phyto.