Snails and crabs just can't keep them

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yea, anyone close have rodi? A cheap test would be instant ocean good rodi and a big wc. Amazon IO is like $8 for 10g I think.

 

[Naiad]

Do you or a lfs nearby have a TDS meter? Also poly pads are helpful in keeping livestock alive when an unknown contaminate is in play.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Do you or a lfs nearby have a TDS meter? Also poly pads are helpful in keeping livestock alive when an unknown contaminate is in play.

good call. cheap too.

 

[thrasher1472]

Isnt 1800 high for Mag?

 

[Bob Escher]

Yes but reading everything else on parameters then it's ok
My located LFS is a hour away. Amazon water did someone say?
Someone wanted a full pic of the tank
Here it is most the shells are just shells nothing in them.

 

[Bob Escher]

Ok so like I said yesterday I bought two snails and a chocolate chip starfish. They are still alive ( but the starfish is going back I dint know they weren't good for corals. And I bought two large turbo snails so we shall see how it goes

 

[scardall]

ALK of 14 is too high. 7-12dkh is the norm.

 

[Bob Escher]

So what would be the safest way to lower that? It's from a RO/DI filter ( well water)

 

[scardall]

So what would be the safest way to lower that? It's from a RO/DI filter ( well water)

The normal way is to stop adding the alk. and or ph bufferer supplement/s. I'm unfamiliar with a RODI filter output with a high alk.

 

[thrasher1472]

I had a small snail die off a couple months ago. I believe I finally figured out my mag was too high which isn't good for some snails. I first noticed my Cal Alk were very high, so I bought a refractometer to replace my hydrometer. I was over adding salt mix because the hydro was so far off, which made the cal, alk and mag raise.

 

[Bob Escher]

Not adding supplements at this time. I'm using a BRS 6 stage filter and that's it. Other having pukani dry rock from BRS and live rock and 60 lbs of Fiji pink that's it

 

[thrasher1472]

Are you mixing your own saltwater? If you are not adding anything then I dont know how those levels are that high unless you are mixing in more salt mix than needed, which was my downfall. My old hydrometer always read 1.022 with just half cup of salt per gallon but I was adding more salt to get to 1.025, before I knew it my levels were sky high.

 

[Bob Escher]

I had a refractometer that had been calibrated wrong but it has since been recalibrate do both by a zero solution and a 1.026 solution. Hydrometer read right on the money

 

[Naiad]

The mag level could cause issues with snails but not usually crabs found that out after trying to get rid of bryopsis. My alk runs higher than it should as well but as long as I acclimate things they do fine. We're you able to test the tds of your ro to make sure it was working right?

 

[Bob Escher]

I have the BRS RO/DI 6 stage filter. I'm running it now but I have very bad water pressure ( well) at about 25 PSi the TDs has 3 settings
1. 73
2. 00
3. 07
I actually could not understand what was what
I'm doing another parameter test right now and will post

 

[Bob Escher]

Here are my settings for today:
The snails I added ( narsarrius and 2 turbo's look like they're gone but I pulled them out of the main andput them along with the starfish into the QT tank to see if it would help or change
Doesn't look good

Test results 04/22/2016

Aquarium parameters
Ammonia: 0.0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: between 0 and 2
Alkalinity: 12.6
Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 77.7
PH: 7.82
Magnesium: 1600
Calcium: 450

 

[Naiad]

Do you have a pic or link to the type of tds meter so we can try to figure out its readings? Wish I lived closer I would just bring you some water I know is fine. Does your LFS sell poly pads? They will remove almost any contaminate and also turn colors to cue you in to what is wrong.

 

[Bob Escher]

I'm actually using polyp ads right now going to my overflows. We shall see what's strange is I had snails and shrimp in my freshwater. I have the TDS meter from BRS

 

[Bob Escher]

The TDs meter is a TRM-1 it was packaged withe the 6 stage BRS filters

 

[Naiad]

Ok then your source water coming out of ro is fine. It is the 0. Have all these snails come from the same lfs?