Originally Posted by
ghostiroc
So i did the big switcharoo. I went from 55gal to 125 and all the parameters looked good. I got the fish out of the small little tank, acclimated them for a few hours in a bucket with a heater and the put them in the new tank and da da they are dropping like flies. So far I have lost my sgt major damsel, my lavender tang, my clown fish, my blue devil damsel, my yellowtail damsel and when I came down this morning the yellow tang is still stressing along with the domino damsel. The Lunar Wrasse, 2 Niger Triggers, 4 stripe damsel, Velvet Damsel, 5 Hermits, are all doing great and accepted food when I gave it to them this morning. I am sad...not because of the loss of livestock due to money, although there was quite a bit invested, or about the time it took to raise them to this size. But because of the loss of personality in the tank. All those fish were different in personality. They did different things, they had routines, they were like little dogs, so happy to see me come up to the tank to watch them, and mainly probably feed them. If feels like I lost family. I thought everyone would be so happy in their new tank with all that room and all that new rock and I guess the trip into the bucket, into the temp tank and back into the bucket in a matter of a week were all to much for them to take.
R.I. P my friends.... and have fun in the big ocean in the sky. You will truly be missed!
RIP
Sarge
Blue Devil
Lavy Tang
Funny guy clown fish
Ole Yellow Tail
Sorry for your loss, How many fish per bucket(how big a bucket) did you acclimate at a time?
You said for a couple hrs acclimation, bigger fish require more O2 and will use it up more rapidly. Suffication could be the stress here and the new tank was just too late for some.
I'm planning to upgrade like this, but was thinking of cycling the bigger tank for 2 weeks, then go tank to tank. But was also thinking of bigger tank in same location, is this why you went to small tank first(what size?). I only acclimate fish for an hour dosing w/ tank water every 15 min after 30mins removing half the water collected in the bucket(3g pail). The extra hour might have done it on older or larger fish w/o circulation. Just some experiences I've run into when the power went out and had bigger fish die or stressed more rapidly and smaller ones survived(before I knew about Peroxide). Again sorry for your loss, You're right never mind the money, the beauty is gone.
