my 8L nano has suddenly gone cloudy and the corals arent looking good. ive been doing 2L water changes but not doing much. any ideas what it may be?

done water tests yet? do water tests now, post results up here. have you shuffled the rock around, played with your sandbed?

no i havnt touched anything

all your filters runing ok

What does ammonia test at? Any sick livestock might be releasing something? Is there enough aeration? Has it overheated?

ok went in and talked to john, my nitrates were up but no ammonia so he thinks its quite possible that they were so happy that one of them tried to spawn hehe

sweet waters all clear, and in doing so it entised snails to breed now my glass is covered in snail eggs

I'd be keen on some of those snails if they survive? John was going to try and get me some but I haven't heard anything back from him so I'd imagine his attempts have been unsuccessful

il let ya know whathappens with them

I'd go a few too... I'll even give you money

Mayb it was the snails that caused the mirky water. Have you got Astraea's? They are know to! Have a read here: http://www.nanoreef.co.uk/index.php/spa ... urbo-snail & http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic34265-13-1.aspx

il see if any live first haha, there certainly a heap of eggs so fingers crossed. Yeah when i saw them doing their mating game i thought it may have been them but there were no eggs or anything prior and it was very very cloudy so not thinking it was them

If they are the rounded green shelled snails from John's shop they tend to just lay eggs in clusters rather than squirt them around - unlike tHEcONCH's which squirt after every water change - doesn't really cloud the water though - looks like little whisps of smoke that disapate fairly quickly.

yeah they were from john but definitely did a lot of squirting and a whole heap of eggs all over the show

if some survive ill take some and pay for them mine did a week ago but the eggs vanished ill be very keen to get them

are the corals still looking sad ?

try pm'ing joeblog i'd say he'd have a heap of snails and probably wouldnt mind