Back to Square One

[Amy]

Well after much heartache and frustration I am back to square one.

 

As many of you know my issue with water quality since April was driving me insane trying to figure out what is all causing this.

 

I don't think I will ever know the only reason for it but this is what I can assume:

 

To many Anemones (4 in a 3 gal)

 

Ricordea Frag was attached to rock when I bought it then came off and the Ric itself was attached to wood, yes wood.

 

One of the pieces of live rock had a dead coral attached to it, did not notice it till I removed the rock from the tank and low and behold the smell.

 

Another RIcordea I bought was attached to an Oyster Shell piece, that ric died along time ago but I never thought that shell would cause so much grief so I left it in the tank. Well it caused more than grief.

 

So I had one of two options, sell everything and give up or keep only what I wanted and start new.

 

So I decided that I could not part with my Rock Flower Anemone, its to beautiful but I can sell my Mini Max Anemones and I did just that. I even sold all the other frags I did not want in the tank as well.

 

The sand was new from and established system so I knew this was not going to be an issue for me at all so I kept the sand, kept my Rock Flower Anemone, kept a very small frag on rock of some zoas, kept my fancy green fuzzy mushroom I was given and bought a new piece of live rock from a different place

for it to spread on, kept my Blue Porcelain Crab, 2 Nassarius Snails, bought a new frag of Paly's and one small snail for the glass. I went back to the 2 gallon tank, have not had any water issues at all everything is happy and healthy just watching my readings incase of a mini cycle but here are a few pics of it now.

 

 

[seabass]

Looking good. I bet you're glad that you figured it out. You don't always have to know the "one" cause, as long as you solve the problem. Good job.

[Amy]

Yes I think it was a combo of all those things, if it were in a larger tank I probably would not have had the issues like I had or at least not as bad but with these little tanks there is no room for error at all.

[Cameron6796]

Oooooo ooo ooo following this is gonna be goooood