Invert Trouble

Have you bought any fish from lfs tanks that might have copper in the water
mine does so I have to be carful not add any water from the bag to the tank

 

Well,


I tested for idodine and I get nothing...that was one hell of an expensive test kit though! 0 iodide and 0 iodate.

I bought a ground probe and placed that in my sump.

I tested all of my parameters again, and everything remains the same.

I never put any water from my LFS into the tank...I use the drip method for acclimitization and then net them out of the bucket into the tank.

Any other ideas about what could be killing my inverts?

-Mike

 

The other possiblities I see are
1. coral banded shrimp is killing them
2. lack of algea for the snails-starvation

 

There is plenty of algea in the tank...I am scraping (with magnet) the front and side glasses nearly every day in order to keep it from getting sooo thick that I can't see through the tank! I'm sure the coral banded isn't killing them cause they arent being attacked, they are more or less just wasting away to nothing and slowly dying.

-Mike