help

[blpring]

Hello
I need help. i came home from work yesterday and had two sick fish (the Yellowtail Butterfly was dead when i came home from work today

). They are in a hospital tank. The Bicolor Angel appears to be sheading (is looking better today) and the Yellowtail Butterfly gills are red and around mouth is red. i checked Ph(8.0), Ammonia (0.0), Nitrite (0.0), Nitrate (40), and Calcium (420). All my other fish and anemones look fine. Does anyone know what it could be?
I have a 125 Gal. Tank with 2 Ocellaris Clowns, 2 Tomato Clown, 1 maroon Clown, 1 Green Mandarinfish, 1 Midas Blenny, 1 Yellowheaded Sleeper Goby, 2 Anemones, 2 Star Fish, 1 Salley Light Foot Crab, 1 red and white shrimp, 15 hermet crabs, 4 snails and lots of live rock. (i think thats all)
I feed them 3 times a day in the morning i give them pellet and flake, in the afternoon brine frozen shrimp and other frozen foods, in the evening pellet and more brine frozen shrimp.
Water changes we do 15% every two weeks.
Im going to do a water change right now.
Thanks
Blpring

 

[plumbjohn]

Hey blpring I posted this in your other thread. You are probaly over feeding wich is causing high nitrates.Cut back feeding to once a day and nothing more than can be eaten in less than 5 mins. Also what is your substrate? CC or LS. If it is CC you might want to consider changing to LS especially now if your fish are in HT. As far as the redness it might ba a bacterial infection caused by high nitrates. I'm not sure what kind of cure is for this. Do a search for bacterial infections in this section and see what you can find. Good luck John

 

[beth]

Did you just recently add those fish?
Personnally, I think its a good idea to feed your fish 3X a day if you can, however, not processed foods such as flakes and pellets.