Hi Tonmo!
I'm in a lab raising bobtail squid and in the last 4 months we've started to get this VERY strange black sooty looking stuff in only our egg nursery. We've also noticed that clutches in the nursery have been hatching very poorly but when we put them in our other 4 systems they hatch perfectly normally. We make our seawater from instant ocean, it's not carbon dust, and I only 1 of our 4 systems has it. I'm wondering if anyone has seen this before and what they've done about it?
Anything that enters the water gets the black silt
What bioballs SHOULD look like
What the nursery's bioballs currently look like
Any advice would be appreciated!
Sarah
I'm in a lab raising bobtail squid and in the last 4 months we've started to get this VERY strange black sooty looking stuff in only our egg nursery. We've also noticed that clutches in the nursery have been hatching very poorly but when we put them in our other 4 systems they hatch perfectly normally. We make our seawater from instant ocean, it's not carbon dust, and I only 1 of our 4 systems has it. I'm wondering if anyone has seen this before and what they've done about it?
Anything that enters the water gets the black silt
What bioballs SHOULD look like
What the nursery's bioballs currently look like
Any advice would be appreciated!
Sarah