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Ok so i have my little Zim (banesis) purchased from octopets (thought he was Officianlis but he never got bigger than 6 inch)
hes been doing just fine but now hes got what look like small 1/2inch or so calous looking things on the ends of his tentecles.
I checked all the stuff and
ph is at 8 (a little low for my tastes) and
Nitrite is at 0
Nitrate is at 20 (yikes)
and ammonia is at 0
Salinity is at .027 (slightly high added a gallon of water)
Zim is about 6 months with me and there fore about 9 months or so old.
he eats constantly and shows no other signs of ill health
notable changes to tank recently are
2 hunks of rock (non live) rinsed and placed in tank 3 days apart from each other
and a Fluval 404 filter now sits as my sump pump
water goes into sump around a bunch of stuff i have had down in there forever and then gets sucked up by the fluval and pumped into the tank (thought was that anything that gets through that filter system is to hard core to deal with anyway)
tank is almost 1 and 1/2 years old
sand bed is 1or 2 inch deep (with some bare spots because Zim likes to bury himself.)
any thoughts on what the white things are ?
they wont change color when he does and are almost like the top layer of skin is gone
my thoughts are that he might be rubbing them on the sand to much
or he is scraping on the new rocks
but its a 75 gal tank with PLENTY of room.
any ideas?
Has it been seen before?
Thank you for your time in this matter
hes been doing just fine but now hes got what look like small 1/2inch or so calous looking things on the ends of his tentecles.
I checked all the stuff and
ph is at 8 (a little low for my tastes) and
Nitrite is at 0
Nitrate is at 20 (yikes)
and ammonia is at 0
Salinity is at .027 (slightly high added a gallon of water)
Zim is about 6 months with me and there fore about 9 months or so old.
he eats constantly and shows no other signs of ill health
notable changes to tank recently are
2 hunks of rock (non live) rinsed and placed in tank 3 days apart from each other
and a Fluval 404 filter now sits as my sump pump
water goes into sump around a bunch of stuff i have had down in there forever and then gets sucked up by the fluval and pumped into the tank (thought was that anything that gets through that filter system is to hard core to deal with anyway)
tank is almost 1 and 1/2 years old
sand bed is 1or 2 inch deep (with some bare spots because Zim likes to bury himself.)
any thoughts on what the white things are ?
they wont change color when he does and are almost like the top layer of skin is gone
my thoughts are that he might be rubbing them on the sand to much
or he is scraping on the new rocks
but its a 75 gal tank with PLENTY of room.
any ideas?
Has it been seen before?
Thank you for your time in this matter