Astrea snail question/problem????

[Aquattro]

Originally posted by EmilyB:
The tank was dosed with cupramine well over a year ago, and has housed anemones, coral, and many inverts since that time.
:rolleyes:

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">As I reread my post, it should have said NOT pose a problem. To reiterate, copper from the skimmer is not a concern!

[Delphinus]

The ammonia reading has got to be a sure suspect. Weird, my theory is that you should never have to test for ammonia, you would know about it anyways if it was there (e.g., something died). Very strange! I'd almost be suspecting your test kit on that one .. knowing your tank, I have a hard time beleiving you could get an ammonia spike.

[Aquattro]

Jon, are you using Hagen kits? I had one that always read 0.1ppm, even in RO water.

[Canadian Man]

Dam.... :mad: Yes I am using hagen test kits.
I suppose though that it is reading diffrent than what it used to.
I am using the Saltwater/freshwater one as they also make a freshwater only one that does not work on salt water.
It used to read 0 but now it is reading an amount so I susspect that it may be true that ammonia is present.

Grrr this is frustrating to go look at my tank and see ALL my snails belley up Sleeping :rolleyes: :(

[Canadian Man]

Update!

Well In the afternoon I did a 25g waterchange and aprox, half of the snails perked up and are now cleaning the rock once again.
I just preformed another 25g waterchange about 6 hours later and hopefully that helps even more.

Must be something in the water AMMONIA????

[Canadian Man]

Another update.
All the snails are alive, well and once again eating algae.
So on to the next problem, all my corals are shrivled up cause of the massive water change :rolleyes: