team2jnd
New Member
I purchased a 55 gallon tank after christmas. At the start ot the tank, i had the help of both of my brothers who were experienced with marine aquariums. They helped me cycle the tank but have recently been deployed in Iraq and have not been able to help me due to obvious reasons. As luck would have it i have recently been having troubles with the fish in my tank. It first started with a blue devil damsel. He began to breathe heavily and went to the top of the tank and tried to breath from the surface as if there was not enough oxygen in the tank. He later sunk to the bottom and died. As far as filtration and circulation goes I have a Fluval 304 canister filter a red sea prizm skimmer and two aquaclear 3000 powerheads (one on each side) I thought that perhaps it was just the fish that was the problem but i recently lost an orangeback basselet to the same symptoms. My salinity ph temperature are all fine. I have not tested ammonia or nitrite recently because i ran out of tests but could this really be the problem? The inverts in my tank are fine and the corals are perfect. I figured with poor water quality these things would be the first to go but this has not been the case. I read multiple posts from other people who had similar symptoms and they discussed treatments such as lowering salinty significantly and things like this. Can anyone who is knowlegable on this topic please inform me on such procedures and how you would go about doing them? Thank you.
