Snail and Coral Death
 

I have recently started up a new tank at the office and things have been going well. The tank is about 5 weeks old now and I started adding love stock about a week ago after the nitrite dropped to 0. So far the fish, crabs and shrimp are doing very well. I brought in a couple of mushrooms and a small patch of green star polyps from my home tank and neither has expanded and both appear to be near death.

Snails also appear to have the same trouble. I bought 2 snails and did a several hour acclimation and they never moved. I thought that I may have acclimated them too quickly so a couple of days later (after a 20% water change) I bought 1 more and did a slow drip acclimation over 16 hours. Same result, it never moved.

Salinity, temp, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate all look fine (close to home tank). I have no idea what else to test for that the fish, crabs and shrimp would be immune to. Any suggestions?

Thank you,
Patrick

Ph?

Back off on the love.

Check your Mg.

Thanks for the tips, I will pick up some test kits tonight.

And will try to stop smothering them with love :) I guess that spell check didn't have a chance on that one.

any chance a cleaning person could be spraying windex or other cleaning chemicals near it?

I don't think so. I have given very specific instructions regarding the cleaning of anything in on or around the tank. But I will ask around, it never hurts to double check.