help I need an answer quick

[amphipod]

I got a live rock from the store for the aiptasia on the rock and one day later my nems are contracted and are detaching, also the worms ran out of the rocks and I think that they died, could the salinity be causing this problem?

[Dramad1]

What is your salinity?

[NorthGaHillbilly]

You got the rock "for the aiptasia"

 

What are the nems that are detaching?

[aviator300]

I dont think a quick answer is possible until you post water param's because it could be tons of things like an ammonia spike from the new rock die off, etc.

[amphipod]

My aiptasia are detaching and I have no water testing equipment, only a tongue and the animals responses and an original sample of water. What will aiptasia do with too much or too little salt?

[JMarcink91]

So you want aptasia in your tank? Pretty sure they will detach to spread around the tank

 

 

Hahah wait you say a tongue to test salinity? Lmao

[Lawnman]

My aiptasia are detaching and I have no water testing equipment, only a tongue and the animals responses and an original sample of water. What will aiptasia do with too much or too little salt?

[amphipod]

Correct, sadly it always worked before, but I've been sick so I can't taste it right now properly

[hey]

My aiptasia are detaching and I have no water testing equipment, only a tongue and the animals responses and an original sample of water. What will aiptasia do with too much or too little salt?

 

obv mortons brand aquarium salt.

[kimberbee]

Correct, sadly it always worked before, but I've been sick so I can't taste it right now properly

 

Wut...?

[amphipod]

No, I used non iodine salt and some from the pet store but mostly Mediterranean sea salt

[Mariaface]

Correct, sadly it always worked before, but I've been sick so I can't taste it right now properly

 

You... You don't actually put aquarium water in your mouth, do you?

 

 

No, I used non iodine salt and some from the pet store but mostly Mediterranean sea salt

Is... Is that what you mix your aquarium's saltwater with?

 

[hey]

You... You don't actually put aquarium water in your mouth, do you?

 

 

Is... Is that what you mix your aquarium's saltwater with?

 

Obv never heard of vibrio. I wear gloves lately, but only because I have psoriasis and skin can crack in places= open wound in bacteria water.

[Mariaface]

Obv never heard of vibrio. I wear gloves lately, but only because I have psoriasis and skin can crack in places= open wound in bacteria water.

 

I'm really, really crossing my fingers that this is some sort of trolling. Really hard. Cross your fingers with me. (only instead of a happy face, make it a mentally disturbed one)

[amphipod]

It's true

[Snow_Phoenix]

Anyone else thinks this is an attempt at trolling? Because I'm starting to think so.

[amphipod]

But please I need answers

 

I'm dead serious not trolling, just please help me

[kimberbee]

I'm really, really crossing my fingers that this is some sort of trolling. Really hard. Cross your fingers with me. (only instead of a happy face, make it a mentally disturbed one)

 

[Mariaface]

But please I need answers

 

It takes less time to google how to start up a saltwater aquarium than to get answers from a forum. Did you google it? Ever?

[erictorres0311]

Why do you want aptasia? What do you have in tank ?

[Mariaface]

On the off chance that you're actually serious and this isn't some sort of joke:

 

Do not use table salt or 'aquarium salt' in a saltwater aquarium. Use an actual salt (Instant Ocean is cheap and available, go for it). Get a refractometer. Use distilled water. Mix the two until you're at a specific gravity of 1.025. Add to an aquarium. Use a heater to keep the water in the tank at 80F. Check against a glass thermometer and adjust as necessary. Keep the water moving with a powerhead or filter, with about twenty times the tank volume in total circulation.

 

Every week, use a bucket to mix about 10-20% of your tank's volume in distilled water with enough salt to bring it up to 1.025. Use a heater in the bucket to bring it up to 80F. Turn off filters/pumps in the tank. Remove the same amount of water from the tank. Add the new water. Turn the electronics back on.

[amphipod]

Yeah I googled of my issues, but to no avail, there wasn't enough info about aiptasia ills. I at present have harpactoids bubble and Stein algae. I got other aiptasia in a in a different enclosure

 

Refractometers are not cheap you know, there were also none at the pet store, is there any way to save them if by any chance there was any iodine in the salt?

[Mariaface]

Yeah I googled of my issues, but to no avail, there wasn't enough info about aiptasia ills. I at present have harpactoids bubble and Stein algae. I got other aiptasia in a in a different enclosure

 

Refractometers are not cheap you know, there were also none at the pet store, is there any way to save them if by any chance there was any iodine in the salt?

 

Iodine in trace amounts is in most salt mixes. Which salt mix are you using? You said 'mediterranean sea salt'. Unless you live down the street from the mediterranean and gather your saltwater there (still a terrible plan), that makes me think you're not using a salt mix meant for aquariums. That would be why your tank's inhabitants are upset.

 

And for the record, I'm not sure you should be delving into the hobby if you can't buy a refractometer. Salinity is the most basic water parameter that you need to keep track of. Then there's temperature, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate. And once you throw corals into the mix there are alkalinity, calcium, magnesium, and phosphate just to name the basics.

[Mstefa1]

Refractometers are not cheap you know, there were also none at the pet store,

 

About $40 if I recall.

 

Or if your cheap and don't are about precision you could spend $7 on a hydrometer.

[ETucc]

He's not joking. He's trying to raise the Aiptasia. I don't understand why... Get a hydrometer. They're inaccurate compared to refractometers, but it should suffice for you, amphipod. They cost less than $10. And get some aquarium salt, dude.