HELP! Fish keep dying

[beccascott]

I have a 4 month old aquarium that I cant keep clowns alive in. After a couple of days-weeks they just start turning really white or pale at night and end up dying later on.....
The only thing I could keep alive was a couple of yellow tail damsels which I ended up getting rid of.
In the tank I also have a chocolate chip starfish, coral banded shrimp, a few zoanthids and a seabe anemone(I know now that I shouldent have gotten an anemone with such a young tank but I didn't read up on it first) but all of those are doing fine
PH 8.0
ammonia -0
nitrate-0
temp-79
salinity-1.025

 

[gemmy]

How do you acclimate the fish?

 

[beccascott]

I put the bags in the water for like 15 minutes and then put some of my water in and took some of the bag water out and kept putting mine in and taking bag water out for over the course of an hour

 

[gemmy]

Can you post some pics of your setup?

 

[beccascott]

Unfortunatly I dont have a camera :/
I can try to describe anything you need to know.

 

[spongeycrab]

Dripping is better than plopping in water. Plus do you have a phone any family have a phone?

 

[beccascott]

I dont have a way to drip acclimate them...but I also dont just plop them into the tank either...

 

[luvmyreef]

Do you run carbon on your tank? Also, I find it odd that your nitrates are 0. You should have some by this point. What is your source water? RO/DI, distilled, etc.??

 

[spongeycrab]

I dont have a way to drip acclimate them...but I also dont just plop them into the tank either...
I realize you don't plop them, but drip acclimation is easy and cheap just go to the dollar store get a bucket and some tubing and if you can't find tubing there go to any pet store trust me at the maximum price range it would still only be $5 or less.

 

[spongeycrab]

Oh and get that chocolate chip outta there the'll kill all the inverts.