HELP..Hermits and snails dead

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  1. Strickland_673

    Strickland_673 Fire Shrimp

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    the first ones(turbo snails/conches) i floated but not long enough for like 30minutes, but they're still living, except the conches. but usually i'll use a drip method, in a bucket and use a slow drip for like 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours?!?!
     
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  3. Strickland_673

    Strickland_673 Fire Shrimp

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    this is what the "TUBEY" snails are Super Tongan Nassarius Snail
     
  4. 10acrewoods

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    well the red hair stuff is probably cyano bacteria and that might be a problem for your snails. If you can't get your phosphates down you might phosphate reactor or use phosban. Keep using r/o and do some water changes, this will help alittle. As far as the snail situation. I always have snail die off when I buy snails. The cyano might also be choking off your good algaes and your snails have no food cause of this. have any pics of tank
     
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    Do you ever feed your narssarius snails.
     
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    unclejed Whip-Lash Squid

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    Hello strick, Everyone means well and the things they asked for should have been, however, I have the same (for lack of a better word) phenomenon. I have put 12-24 Blue legs in my 55 gal. and within weeks 1/2 would die off. The ones that have lived (12 maybe) are doing great and have been in there quite a while. I have a grounding probe and all parameters are as perfect as a test can show. Here is the bizarre twist, the exact same thing has happened in my 14 gal. Biocube. I recently had my LFS buddy over for a Coral consultation and told him and he was totally puzzled. I saw your post and it grabbed my attention because of my situation. Will be curious to see what others say but I think this one may fall into that black hole of "no answer".
     
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  9. Strickland_673

    Strickland_673 Fire Shrimp

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    here let me know what you think. you can see the red algea on the back glass.
     

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    Strickland_673 Fire Shrimp

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    woods: I do, i feed the Omeg 1 shrimp pellets, and sometimes fresh shrimp.

    jed: REALLY? wow someone out there with the same problem. weird eh? really weird!! do you have red algea problems?
     
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    Strickland_673 Fire Shrimp

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    I got most of my rock from a lfs, that was closing for renovations!!! well aged desplay tank rock for........... $3.20 / LB !!!!!!!!!! like holy crap right!!!
     
  12. 10acrewoods

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    that is not red hair That is coraline algae. that is good algae to have. you are probably just experiencing die off of snails and crabs. I think snails don't ship to well cause lots of lfs buy in a big bulk. I once noticed my lfs brining in snails and they were 50 packed in one bag, same with crabs. I think your tank looks great.