I Woke Up This Morning And Guess What

[bandaid]

Hello all and greetings. After working a hard night as a cop in Florida (One Arrest Where He Wanted To Fight And A Stolen Vehicle Pursuit). I arrived home this morning to enjoy my saltwater tank (Very Peaceful To Me Helps Me To Calm Down) I had lost 4 members of my fish clan. I lost my fav. Blue Korean Angel, Bicolor Blenny, and 2 Percula Clowns. So guess what Im so P#$%#- now, so off to the water testing I go. PH:8.2, Alk:Normal to High, Amm:0, Nitri:0, Nitra:0. My calcium is around 450 and my salinity is 1.23 to 1.24. So I run down to my LFS and he says my specs are very nice and wanted to help replace my lost fish (Of Course Buy From Him With No Help On What Happened) I told him I would return after talking with my SaltwaterFish.com Buddies. So here I am at a lose with no clue why. Here is my tank 110 gal. tank with wet/dry filter, protein skimmer and 2x maxijet 1200s (Nice Water Flow With No Dead Spots). 150 lbs. LR and 150 lbs. LS (3 inch sand bed). I have Coralife advanced lighting system 2x 150 watt 20,000k bulbs with moon lights. I have a Yellow Tang (Misses His Blue Angel Buddy), 5 chromis (Swims In A School Looks Really Cool), Niger Trigger, and a Royal Gramma (Misses His 2 Clown Buddies, I Call Them My Triple Odd Gang). I have a few soft corals. 3x Brains, 2x plates, 4x Green Ricordea, 10x Blue/Green Ricordea, and a waving Xenia. This tank has been established for a little over 4 months and it was running and looking really good (Still Is Without My Other Fish). There no signs of stress or disease. No chewed fins or fast breathing from their gills. I also have shrimps, crabs, feather dusters the typical cleaning cure. So if anyone could help me I would like it very much. I will have photos ready soon just got my camera. Just trying to learn how to paste them on here.

 

[weberian]

Any signs of a power outage while you were working? Was anyone else in the house or apartment? Did you feed anything new lately? Any new additives? What is your tank temperature?

 

[jdragunas]

any signs of ich, or any disease at all? Do you use R/O water? Is it possible someone (maybe a child or wife who doesn't know better) may have sprayed windex near the tanK, or possibly dropped something else toxic in? If four died in one day, there's gotta be something going on that you don't know about. have you added any disease treatments lately, or anything else you can think of?
Jenn

 

[snailheave]

you should write 4 tickets today to avenge the deaths

 

[bandaid]

My water temp is 80 and no new additives were added. My wife knows not to touch the tank so noway there was anything put inside. Theres noway that a power outage occurred because I have a generator built into my home since the hurricanes last year here in Florida. So keep the answers coming please. I use top off water with additive remover by the way.

 

[jdragunas]

i'm stumped! Maybe post this in the "disease and treatment" forum, they know all of the right questions. Sorry i couldn't be more help!
Jenn

 

[bandaid]

Thanx Jenn I will write 10 UTCs (Tickets) tomorrow when I go Back. I will write tickets tell I get the answer LOL.

 

[jdragunas]

GOOD FOR YOU, you get those maniacs!!! lol.
"officer, was i speeding"
"no ma'am"
"well was i swerving or weaving?"
"no"
"why did you pull me over?"
"my fish died... can you sign here please..."
Jenn

 

[hedonic]

Does the temp stay at 80? or is there any flux? Was it RO water? Where the bodies of the fish stressed in any other way?

 

[bandaid]

Yes water temp stays at 80 with heater and chiller. I have a water filteration and I use a additive remover for chlorine. LOL Jenn U so funny.......I dont think It would fly but Ill try that line LOL.

 

[jdragunas]

You should probably not use the tap water filtration/ water conditioner method. This can lead to problems in the future with algae... i learned this the hard way. You should use R/O water, which can be purchased at your local grocery store. If you have a walmart, they sell bottled water called "drinking water" with a green label, and green lid. It also has a calcium additive, which helps, as R/O process really tends to remove calcium too.
Filters only ever remove like 95% of dissolved minerals and crap from the water, so i'd suggest trying to get into the habbit of using R/O water. You can also get an R/O unit for about $200, a good unit too. This could be your best bet, as you can hook them up to the kitchen sink, and your tapwater becomes R/O water. It's the best for you to drink too.
Jenn

 

[hedonic]

Originally Posted by jdragunas
You should probably not use the tap water filtration/ water conditioner method. This can lead to problems in the future with algae... i learned this the hard way. You should use R/O water, which can be purchased at your local grocery store. If you have a walmart, they sell bottled water called "drinking water" with a green label, and green lid. It also has a calcium additive, which helps, as R/O process really tends to remove calcium too.
Filters only ever remove like 95% of dissolved minerals and crap from the water, so i'd suggest trying to get into the habbit of using R/O water. You can also get an R/O unit for about $200, a good unit too. This could be your best bet, as you can hook them up to the kitchen sink, and your tapwater becomes R/O water. It's the best for you to drink too.
Jenn

Right on!

 

[hurt]

Bandaid- Do you run carbon on your tank?

 

[bandaid]

I run carbon 24 hours once every two weeks.

 

[rainfishy]

What do you feed your fish? That might be the problem. I thought I was feeding my fish a good diet, but had a couple die on me; then figured out it was what i was feeding them. Now i use home made fish food (thanks to Beth) and my fish are more awesome, and colorful then ever!! and no more dead fish!!

 

[hurt]

I run carbon 24 hours once every two weeks.
You may wish to do that a little more often. I run carbon 24/7 and change it every week. It sounds to me from losing 4 fish at the same time, you had some bad chemicals in your tank. Carbon will fix that problem.