AustinCase
New Member
Hi everyone,
I am new to the saltwaterfish.com community but have been on reef2reef before.
I have been keeping saltwater fish for just over a year now. My first tank was a 29g, then I got a 55g about 8 months later. Now I'm on a 120g and converted my 55g to a sump (overflow box drains to 2 filter socks then I have a protein skimmer and fuge). I have about 60lbs or LR and about 80lbs of LS all out of the 55g. The sand was never out of water and the rock sat out for less than 2 days. The transition took 2 days to get the 120 operation with HOB filters. It took another day to get the sump added and going. During the transition I lost a few fish, my clowns were the only fish to survive. Fish I lost were a Royal Gramma, Hippo Tang and Lawnmower Blenny as well as my clowns anemone.
The 120 has been running for 3 weeks now and my parameters have been reading the same since a couple days after it was set up an fully running. I tested today, PH is 8, Ammonia is 0, Nitrites are 0, Nitrates are between 5 and 10, Phosphates were reading between 0 and .25
Over the past 2 weeks I've been trying to add a Tomini Tang, Hippo Tang and Flame Angel. The Hippo I purchased is doing great but the Flame and Tomine I can't seem to keep and they keep dying after a few days. Keeping in mind my clowns and hippo are doing great. The first go around the Flame didn't make it to the next morning and the Tomini didn't make it to the 3rd day. I didn't notice any signs of aggression from the clowns or hippo and my parameters have been the same as above. A week later I tried again and the same results. This time though the Flame lasted 2 days (lost it on Friday) and the Tomini 4 days (found it today). The Tomini seemed to be doing great, it was eating and swimming and getting along with the others and the Flame for the short time it was in the tank seemed to do good and was swimming with the others but did seem a little more shy than the rest but also ate when I fed. Now since they were in the tank longer I was able to observe them and no I didn't see any signs of aggression from anyone.
I will add that my acclimation procedure is to float for 15 to 20 minutes then drip until I have filled the bag twice. This usually take about an hour of time total.
I also notice this evening before lights out that my Hippo and one of the Clowns had white spots (I'm assuming it's ich). My first Hippo would get it occasionally but it would usually go away after a day or 2. So before I do crazy I wanted to see if this is just a short spell caused by the stress of introducing new fish and them dying.
So now I'm really not sure what the heck to do. Has anyone been through this? I'm obviously done trying to add fish until I have a solution.
I am new to the saltwaterfish.com community but have been on reef2reef before.
I have been keeping saltwater fish for just over a year now. My first tank was a 29g, then I got a 55g about 8 months later. Now I'm on a 120g and converted my 55g to a sump (overflow box drains to 2 filter socks then I have a protein skimmer and fuge). I have about 60lbs or LR and about 80lbs of LS all out of the 55g. The sand was never out of water and the rock sat out for less than 2 days. The transition took 2 days to get the 120 operation with HOB filters. It took another day to get the sump added and going. During the transition I lost a few fish, my clowns were the only fish to survive. Fish I lost were a Royal Gramma, Hippo Tang and Lawnmower Blenny as well as my clowns anemone.
The 120 has been running for 3 weeks now and my parameters have been reading the same since a couple days after it was set up an fully running. I tested today, PH is 8, Ammonia is 0, Nitrites are 0, Nitrates are between 5 and 10, Phosphates were reading between 0 and .25
Over the past 2 weeks I've been trying to add a Tomini Tang, Hippo Tang and Flame Angel. The Hippo I purchased is doing great but the Flame and Tomine I can't seem to keep and they keep dying after a few days. Keeping in mind my clowns and hippo are doing great. The first go around the Flame didn't make it to the next morning and the Tomini didn't make it to the 3rd day. I didn't notice any signs of aggression from the clowns or hippo and my parameters have been the same as above. A week later I tried again and the same results. This time though the Flame lasted 2 days (lost it on Friday) and the Tomini 4 days (found it today). The Tomini seemed to be doing great, it was eating and swimming and getting along with the others and the Flame for the short time it was in the tank seemed to do good and was swimming with the others but did seem a little more shy than the rest but also ate when I fed. Now since they were in the tank longer I was able to observe them and no I didn't see any signs of aggression from anyone.
I will add that my acclimation procedure is to float for 15 to 20 minutes then drip until I have filled the bag twice. This usually take about an hour of time total.
I also notice this evening before lights out that my Hippo and one of the Clowns had white spots (I'm assuming it's ich). My first Hippo would get it occasionally but it would usually go away after a day or 2. So before I do crazy I wanted to see if this is just a short spell caused by the stress of introducing new fish and them dying.
So now I'm really not sure what the heck to do. Has anyone been through this? I'm obviously done trying to add fish until I have a solution.
