Why won't this open?

[adamsky27]

I used to do a 25 gallon water change every two weeks. I tested the water and my nitrates are high. I'm going to start doing it every week until my nitrates go down. This still doesn't explain why it has been like this for so long, my nitrates just recently starting going up.

[afelder]

What's your salinity like? My brains both do this when my salinity goes outside the norm. The temp might be an issue too. It's been hot around here.


Good Luck
Ariel

[bower23]

Wow, you ever decide to frag that.... there will be a line! Put me in it!

[paininthewrasse]

I want that.. how much you want for it???

[adamsky27]

The temperature is a steady 77, I have a chiller. My salinity is also steady at 1.024. You can frag this type of brain?

[Chads29]

Oh Yeah!

[MCsaxmaster]

Originally posted by adamsky27
I used to do a 25 gallon water change every two weeks. I tested the water and my nitrates are high. I'm going to start doing it every week until my nitrates go down. This still doesn't explain why it has been like this for so long, my nitrates just recently starting going up.

How high is nitrate? What about phosphate? My advise would be a series of several large water changes to flush the system, though it is certainly useful to know the water parameters to start with. Have you determined what caused nitrate to rise recently?

cj

[CHAR3]

It still hasn't opened to this day.

[cristhiam]

Do you have tangs? I had a blue tang that nipped mine amost to dead. I sold the tang and it was back to normal. Also my saifin tang did the same thing, this time I end up selling the brain. Cover the brain with a 1/2 2 litre soda bottle and see if it puffs up, if it does someone is picking at it. The way I caught the blue tang nipping at it is I put my camera filming for a couple of hours and caught the little $#@!!

Look at the brain to the left all puffed up inside the bottle