help!!! fishies dieing

trying4reef

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Have have had my tank setup for just over a month and it finally finished cycling about four or five days ago and all my levels are at 0. After about a week of it being setup I put 2 blue damsels in it to start the cycle and then a blue angel fish about a few days after that. about two weeks later one of the blue damsles and the angel fish fins looked turn almost but to even, more like they had worn away and they couldn't swim. after a few more days I got a striped damsel and just this morning he is showing sings that he is not going to make it. his eyes looked blugy and he is brething heevy. and while he is usually up at the top of the tank he is now almost on the ground. Does anyone have any idea what keeps happening to my fish? my LFS said the frist wave of death was an ammonia spike, OK that I can buy but now what is the cuase? sorry for the long post and thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
 

trying4reef

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I have an amircle wet/dry filter w/ rio 2100 pump, sea clone protien skimmer, two power heads one at 300gph other at 150 gph one at either side of the tank pointed at the middle, my water is pretty good when i checked last night this is what I got
amm - 0
nitrite - almost 0
salinyty -0 1.023
ph - 8.0
temp - 77
also my LFS told me not to do amy water changes for a couple weeks to make sure the tank was fully cycled first
 

trying4reef

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thanks for the tip ed but shouldn't my tank be done cycling now if my levels have droped to zero? they were up an I admit almost to toxic levels but now they have droped way down to an almost unmessurable amount. One other thind if I set up a Qtank (i have a spare 15 gl tank) should i use water from my tank or start fresh and let it cycle on it's own?
 

trying4reef

Member
in reading on my search like Trry said I ran acroos a post that mentioned bubble-eye? is that something that might be going on with my fish? his my filer does send a ton of fine bubble into the tank via the return from my rio2100. I have tryied raising the water lever and nothing seems to help. if that is the cuase how do i get the bubbles out?
 
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