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I have a small port jackson shark in a 150 gallon tank. (I plan on up grading in the future). He is fairly small, and the water quality is great. He some times looks like he is dying. He lays on his back for about 2 minutes and then swims around. He does it more after a feeding at night. Is this...

I have a Port Jackson shark that acts died. It swims around then flops died. It does this all day long. It's been doing this for 2 months now. I watch my water quailty really close. When it flops died it lays on its back. Help keep sharky a live!!!!

Thanks for your help!

I still have a lunare wrasse and some hermit crabs alive in the tank. I did a 50% water change this morning and the wrasse is acting like himself again. I can't cycle the tank with shrimp if he lives to see tomarrow.

Ya, after reading some threads I feel very mislead from the fish store, I wish I would have fond this earlier!! So now what should I do?

It's been set up for 2 and a half months, we started with 4 fish to cycle. Then added one at a time, 2 weeks apart.

The fish store told me to lower the salinity and higher the temp to help with the ich. I guess I should'nt have done that.

Yes!

Salinity was at .018 (sorry) and yes a uv sterilizer.

I'm pretty new to the saltwater fish tanks. I have a 55 gallon that had a tomato clown, lion fish, fox face, lunare wrasse, and a blue throut trigger. The fish were all very young, I was past the cycle stage. So I added a nigar trigger. The clown had ich so I treated the tank with the 100 %...