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10-25-2010, 10:02 PM
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10-25-2010, 10:44 PM
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Ya, that's the idea. Unless you want to clean the filter 2x weekly it will cause you a lot of grief in the long run. Canister filters are designed with the freshwater nitrogen cycle in mind, not saltwater.
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10-25-2010, 10:48 PM
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thats great to know but wont other things build up inside the can?
Also what would be a good CUC for this tank? Right now I have 3 Zebra Crabs 1 Dwarf Electric Blue Crab 1 Scarlet Skunk Shrimp 1 Pincushion Urchin 4 Nassarius snails
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10-29-2010, 05:13 PM
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Death has landed in the tank! went to work everything looked fine, come home about 6 hours later and my urchin is in the gravel, no spines left and upside down, about 10 min later (after I got cleaned up from work) theres 4 big bristleworms on him and within another 2 hes hollow...
I checked the water and everything is fine... Ammonia-0ppm Nirites-0ppm Nirates-less than 5ppm PH-8.0-8.2 SG 1.025 Temp 80 I dont know what I did wrong  he was eating like crazy cleaning off a rock I had, half of the rock was clean then all of a sudden he dropped dead...I did a drip when I first got him, made it last about an hour and changed half the water once the volumed doubled etc. Rather sad thats now 2 inverts I have lost. A peppermint shrimp and a Blue Tuxedo urchin
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10-29-2010, 06:56 PM
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Hollow
Are you sure he is not hiding? Hollow? Molt perhaps? I don't see a bristle worm eating the entire thing in two minutes.
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10-29-2010, 07:00 PM
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the peppermint shrimp? hes long gone and the urchin is hollow when I turned him over, there are worms inside of him, hes done. I think he was pretty much gone in the morning and the worms were cleaning him out already. I removed him today and theres nothing left to him and I dont have enough LR in the tank yet for him to "hide"
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10-29-2010, 07:32 PM
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Tank
How long has your tank been running?
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10-29-2010, 07:37 PM
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Too fast
You need to slow down. If you added livestock after a week of being set you are asking for issues.
Slow down. Add no more until you watch the tank for at least a month. If this is your first salt set up.... I can tell you patience is a virtue. If you rush it... you are going to lose a lot of livestock and money. Take your time. It will pay off. Inverts are sensitive creatures to begin with. Let your tank cycle for a month regardless of what your test results are. There is always possibility of die-off in the first month.
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