Dead Shrimp and Emerald Crab...

[Bifferwine]

10% a week is perfect...

Sometimes animals die with no good explanation... The obvious things have been ruled out. I'd say wait a few weeks and see if anyone else dies. If no one does, it could have been a fluke.

 

[mng777777]

+1 Biff

 

[yote]

HAve you by any chance heard any clicking coming from the tank?

 

[dcantucson]

What's your feeding schedule. You may be getting nitrates from over feeding. Your nitrates are too high, especially for the shrimp. I would do a larger water change if you can.

What's left in the tank?

 

[SaltwaterNoob17]

HAve you by any chance heard any clicking coming from the tank?

No. No clicking. I inspected my LR really well before I put it in. And the tank is in my bedroom, so I'm pretty sure I would have heard some clicking by now...

As for my feeding schedule, I feed Omega One Freeze Dried mysis or brine shrimp around 5:00pm each day. At 5pm, I only put 3 "servings" (each the size of a sewing pin head) in the aquarium because I only had 1 goby, 4 shrimp, the emerald crab, and then miscellaneous snails and hermit crabs.

I'm going to check my nitrates again today, and probably do another 10% water change just to get them down.

 

[SaltwaterNoob17]

My tank has a faint smell of rotten eggs. I think it is probably just the smell of decay from the shrimp and crab that died. Could it mean something else, though?

 

[Bifferwine]

Yeah... It could mean trapped gasses in your sandbed. How deep is your sand?

 

[SaltwaterNoob17]

2-3 inches

 

[SaltwaterNoob17]

Yeah... It could mean trapped gasses in your sandbed.

What do you do about that?


Also, I re-tested for stray electricity in my tank with my dad's help. The voltmeter read at 0.02. However, when I removed all of the equipment from my tank one at a time, it still read 0.02. What's up with that?

 

[treadwater]

whats the clicking supposed to be? i assume some sort of bad apple in your tank?..hehe. shoot first ask questions later?

 

[dcantucson]

mantis shrimp

 

[Bifferwine]

Well 2 or 3 inches isn't really enough to cause a problem with trapped gasses. The smell was probably your dead inverts. It won't hurt to run some carbon.