jeffk
New Member
This is my first time to post on a fish forum, but I have nowhere else to turn. My lfs is at a loss for our situation.
We have a 75 gallon reef tank. Its been up and running for about a year and a half now. Every herbivore we introduce in our tank does not live very long. It doesn't matter if it is a angelfish, tang, etc... We have tried several times and are tired of wasting money.
I test my water parameters weekly, do 10 gallon water changes weekly, and everything looks great. I have my lfs do the same tests and she confirms my numbers. After adding a skimmer a few months ago, I immediately noticed a huge difference in the health of our tank. Our hair algae is all but gone and the corals starting going crazy.
Here is what we have in the tank that is thriving:
Maroon clown hosting a rbt anemone. The clown has been in the tank for a little over a year.
Mandarin goby, fat and happy, been in the tank for 10 months
Royal gramma, in the tank about a year
Several corals, zoas, candy canes, frogspan, hammer, and recordias...all are multiplying wonderfully and have great color
Our latest addition was a little 2 inch blue hippo tang. After about a week in our tank I noticed he was hugging the bottom and was breathing rapidly. The next day I was unable to find the tang. Yes...I know a 75 will eventually be too small for a blue hippo. Our plan was if all goes well, we would upgrade our tank once the fish outgrew the 75. Our lfs quarantines all her fish for one week before selling. When I was talking with her today, she pointed out the tank that the fish came from and there were 4 other blue hippos from the same shipment doing fine.
Any type of angelfish we introduce ends up dying, even turbo snails end up dying. Anything that eats algae.
So...anybody have any ideas of what might be going on? Fish that don't eat algae thrive and corals thrive.
Thanks in advance!
We have a 75 gallon reef tank. Its been up and running for about a year and a half now. Every herbivore we introduce in our tank does not live very long. It doesn't matter if it is a angelfish, tang, etc... We have tried several times and are tired of wasting money.
I test my water parameters weekly, do 10 gallon water changes weekly, and everything looks great. I have my lfs do the same tests and she confirms my numbers. After adding a skimmer a few months ago, I immediately noticed a huge difference in the health of our tank. Our hair algae is all but gone and the corals starting going crazy.
Here is what we have in the tank that is thriving:
Maroon clown hosting a rbt anemone. The clown has been in the tank for a little over a year.
Mandarin goby, fat and happy, been in the tank for 10 months
Royal gramma, in the tank about a year
Several corals, zoas, candy canes, frogspan, hammer, and recordias...all are multiplying wonderfully and have great color
Our latest addition was a little 2 inch blue hippo tang. After about a week in our tank I noticed he was hugging the bottom and was breathing rapidly. The next day I was unable to find the tang. Yes...I know a 75 will eventually be too small for a blue hippo. Our plan was if all goes well, we would upgrade our tank once the fish outgrew the 75. Our lfs quarantines all her fish for one week before selling. When I was talking with her today, she pointed out the tank that the fish came from and there were 4 other blue hippos from the same shipment doing fine.
Any type of angelfish we introduce ends up dying, even turbo snails end up dying. Anything that eats algae.
So...anybody have any ideas of what might be going on? Fish that don't eat algae thrive and corals thrive.
Thanks in advance!
