Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 Well, I think it's a big problem! Yesterday I added a Branching Hammer Frag to my 20H, which already had Shrooms, and a rock filled with Zoanthids. After about 6 hours of having the Hammer in there, I rearranged the rock a little, and everything in the tank closed up. I figured this was normal from the sand cloud. That was around 7:30pm last night... it's now 11:30AM the next morning, and the shrooms, zoo's, and hammer are STILL closed! Is this normal? Link to comment
kamalehi Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 yes,they are just ajusting to the change,my anemones do that too Link to comment
vyger Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 They may just be stressed out a little from your rearranging things.Give em' some more time. I 've had pollups close up for a couple of days at a time and then all of a sudden open and look ok. Link to comment
Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Well, I can understand that they're adjusting, but usually if I move my shrooms around, they perk back up in a matter of hours. Is it the fact that I added a new coral so close in the tank to the other two maybe? Oh, also.... after I moved the zoo rock, I noticed a very small pinkish-purplish haze coming out of one of the polyps... I figured I must've hit that particular one with my finger or something.... Link to comment
Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Here's the Hammer as of 2 minutes ago... Link to comment
Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 And the shrooms... Link to comment
phergus_25 Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 yea it looks like it might have gotton contaminated, if you have any amquell or noav aqua give the recomended dosage and do a heafty water change like 50% today and then 25% tommorow Link to comment
Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Uh oh... I use store-bought distilled.... and we just got slammed by 18 inches of snow... Somehow I don't think my lowered S10 pickup will make it there and back. Can I use tap water w/ the tapwater conditioner that I use for my 75g FW as a temporary fix?? Link to comment
phergus_25 Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 i would say just put some waterconditioner in the tank, make shure that it dosent afect the PH, but you can also change your carbon and hope it sucks it out, i did a tank with tap water for a while but it had horrible problems from copper to algae so deep you cant see the rock Link to comment
Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Well, in the middle of all this... I just looked in the tank, and there's a mushroom floating around... Link to comment
phergus_25 Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 yea somethign is way off wack, check your ph that could be it Link to comment
Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Here's the results- PH- 7.8 Ammonia- 0.35 Nitrite- 0.25 Nitrate- 0 Phosphate- 0 Link to comment
EL Diablo Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 Something gave you an ammonia Spike. You need to do a water change ASAP. 50 percent and re-test. Link to comment
Hartdude Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 What were your water params before adding your Hammer? Link to comment
Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Well the water change is under way... The Hammers seems to be poking out and pulling back in ever so slightly. We'll see how they look once the new SW mix is added in. The shrooms are still looking real bad, like I said, one let go and is floating around the tank. There's 3 or 4 more that are 1/4 to 1/2 detached... I'm really hoping the new water makes everyone happy again. Hartdude... I generally don't check my water params unless there's a problem. But everything was 0 when I put the Zoos in last week. Link to comment
Hartdude Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 Odd. I wander what caused the NH3 spike. Have you noticed anything "missing" lately? I hope that the water change helps. Also, I would run some carbon to be on the safe side (if your not already). Link to comment
Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Yeah I've got a big bag of Carbon sitting in my AC500 fuge... Nothing's missing, but one of the snails I bought has'nt moved very much... and I'm not sure if he's dead. His very small amount of movement could be from other snails/fish hitting him. Link to comment
ravenmore7 Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 if your tank is well established you shouldn't get an ammonia spike period, even if something does die in your tank. How long has the tank been running? Link to comment
Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Originally posted by ravenmore7 if your tank is well established you shouldn't get an ammonia spike period, even if something does die in your tank. How long has the tank been running? Just over a month... Link to comment
Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Here's a pic of one of the Shrooms pulling off the rock... and it's got something coming out of it... which I just noticed... Link to comment
Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Here's the Hammer starting to come back out... I guess thats a good thing... Link to comment
Cesar Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 What are your readings now? Link to comment
anarchyman2099 Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 From my understanding about shrooms and their behavior. that stuff coming out of its mouth is its stomach and it means they are hungry.I'm probably way off but that is what I've been told. Link to comment
Mastermind Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 I'm doing the tests right now... but "anarchyman2099" made me think of something... Yesterday after I put the Hammer in, I spot-fed some Kent PhytoPlex... would that maybe cause this reaction... since it's never been introduced into my tank before?? Link to comment
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