Hi Fauna Marin,
I've just tested your REEF ICP TEST TOTAL and was very impressed the speed and completness of the test. So much information and advice!
But there's some things I'd like to ask your advice about anyway.
The tank is recovering from an almost crash this summer, when some water parameters got way off (Ca 230.. and more). I've corrected and stabilized the the basic values. Battled some cyano and taken down the nutrion levels to an almost ULNS level. Most SPS are growing just fine and getting nice bright colors. So most things seems to be going in the right direction.
But a Squamosa clam I've had for more than a year and had survived all of the previous problems were suddenly closing up more and more. I suspected a Navarchus, so I sold that fish but the clam already looked quite bad then and died shortly after. About two weeks later, when everything else still looked fine I bought 2 large Maxima clams. Both of these never really like it here. The were not opening up fully, eventhough I couldn't see anything bothering them. I checked both for things from above (fishes, snails and similar) and from below with snails, worms and others but found nothing. Both clams died in about 2 weeks.
My ICP test were taken somewhere in between these 2 incidents.
Although far from everything is perfect in this test I can't really see anything that would kill a large clam in a quite short time. The basics are quite OK as I see it.
Iodine I always get low results, but this was not an extremly bad value as I see it.
Flouride I haven't checked before, but can this value be that bad?
Aluminium and Barium are both high, but have been even higher before? Could these be "killers"?
Any other ideas?
I've just tested your REEF ICP TEST TOTAL and was very impressed the speed and completness of the test. So much information and advice!
But there's some things I'd like to ask your advice about anyway.
The tank is recovering from an almost crash this summer, when some water parameters got way off (Ca 230.. and more). I've corrected and stabilized the the basic values. Battled some cyano and taken down the nutrion levels to an almost ULNS level. Most SPS are growing just fine and getting nice bright colors. So most things seems to be going in the right direction.
But a Squamosa clam I've had for more than a year and had survived all of the previous problems were suddenly closing up more and more. I suspected a Navarchus, so I sold that fish but the clam already looked quite bad then and died shortly after. About two weeks later, when everything else still looked fine I bought 2 large Maxima clams. Both of these never really like it here. The were not opening up fully, eventhough I couldn't see anything bothering them. I checked both for things from above (fishes, snails and similar) and from below with snails, worms and others but found nothing. Both clams died in about 2 weeks.
My ICP test were taken somewhere in between these 2 incidents.
Although far from everything is perfect in this test I can't really see anything that would kill a large clam in a quite short time. The basics are quite OK as I see it.
Iodine I always get low results, but this was not an extremly bad value as I see it.
Flouride I haven't checked before, but can this value be that bad?
Aluminium and Barium are both high, but have been even higher before? Could these be "killers"?
Any other ideas?