Help.....

[mfinnegan]

:help: Ok...we set up a tank over a month ago....it was an already put together tank...we transported everything home with us in rubbermaid containers...well...when we got the tank, some fish had HLLE. That was on the mend....everyone was looking good. I ended up bringing a huge sailfin to LFS and giving it to them, cuz he was picking on the other fish....he was huge.......
Everything was going along great.....no problems, we bought a Eheim filter system, and had a Red Prism protein skimmer we could never get to work......but...everything was moving along great......THEN......the LFS was having a blow out sale.....the beginning of this month.....we bought two sally lightfoot crabs, a conch, and a lawnmower blenny.....
Well....the conch died right after about a week of having him.....A couple of weeks ago, we noticed dots on some of our original fish, so...we thought it was ick....so we treated for ick.....(we bought the treatment you could do with inverts).....Well....last week...we lost all the new stuff.....lawnmower, crabs......Also, our clown fish started to get this slimmy stuff on him....and....he died on Saturday
Now, my issue.....my other sailfin.......he is on the verge of dying I think.....He started off with dots......then on a certain area of him his skin started to get bumpy.....now, he is shedding this slimmy stuff, his tail looks like it's looking the skin on the end of it.... and....his skin is looking pitty (almost raw)....he's not eating......
We went to the LFS....they said it's not worth putting him in a quarentine tank now....something is in the tank and we need to treat the tank.
We are putting in vitamins, garlic, essential elements......
We have a Remora Protein Skimmer coming in tomorrow......
LFS has been testing the water.....and it is good.......we did have a nitrate spike, but....that is normal now.....
Please help.....my fish are yellow tang, blue hippo tank, one clown, the sailfin, snails, watchman goby and bar goby now.......I so don't want to loose these guys......
Please let me know what info you need to help me....
It's a 90 gallon tank.
New fish were not q'd......ugh.

 

[lion_crazz]

First off, I need all of your water parameters. I need to know your pH,kH, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, salinity, and temperature?
What medicine did you use in your display tank?

 

[shawnf]

PH 8.3
Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
Temp 80
salinity 26
specific gravity 020
Used no medicine......except garlic and vitamin supplement.
Now the sail fin is holey.....ugh...he's gonna die.....
Now my blue tang is starting with the white coating and red blotchy holes.....

 

[lion_crazz]

You said:
we thought it was ick....so we treated for ick.....(we bought the treatment you could do with inverts)

 

[lion_crazz]

Do you have live rock or live sand?
How often are you doing water changes?

 

[shawnf]

Oh sorry.....It was Ick something....reef safe version......
we have live rock
we do water changes 1x every 2 weeks....
Here's a picture...(I hope) couldn't post picture...says it's too large....ugh.....

 

[lion_crazz]

Resize the picture in paint and then repost it.
Without knowing what product you dumped in your tank, I cannot help you too much. Some products claim that they are reef safe and they really are not.
I cannot see how you have 0 nitrates with only doing water changes every two weeks. Have you ever had your test results double checked at the LFS?

 

[shawnf]

our nitrates were spiked on Sunday....and yes the LFS has been testing them as well....today it is at 0.
I'm sorry...we finished the ick treatment and threw the bottle away. We are moving the sail fin to the Q tank tonight and adding Rally Ruby Reef to that tank and the main tank....we are also going to do a dip of the blue hippo in Para Guard and then return him to the main tank.
Q tank is only 10 gals.....