first fatality

socalracer

Member
i ve had my tank up and running for about 4 months and in the last 3 days i have had 2 snails die and a bicolor blennie die. he showed no signs until the night before he died. when i woke up the hermits were eating the top of his head. all water parameters i can test are normal(salinity, ph, ammonia, trite,trate) although my ph is 8.4 is that a little high? o and all other fish and snails are acting normal, eating, swimming, and breathing as usual..... is this just bad luck?
 
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n_sarno

Guest
what are you exact water parameters? We cant really do much w/ out them..
 

teri vinso

New Member
:help: i have a yellow tang that seems to be gasping for breath - all my other fish are swimming and doing fine what can be wrong and can i do anything for it??????
 

poniegirl

Active Member
Originally Posted by socalracer
any ideas?
Bottom dwellers need a very mature tank, so that there is enough available food. Snails eat algae, and a young tank may not be able to support them?
What are your other fish? What size tank? Equipment? Live rock? And substrate.
All of these could factor in. :thinking:
 

socalracer

Member
my tank is a 100g with 50lbs lr i have hermits, snails, flamehawk, blue devil damsel, and tomato clown, tank is about 4 months old, trites were 0 ammonia 0, trates 5 ppl i think(well in range) also the night b4 it died it appeared to have blood under its skin towards its gills, i could tell b/c it was very pale but just a couple hours earlier it ate just like always
 
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