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jackie dh
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Wed night I added some huge mexican turbos and a beautiful electric blue hermit to my 120. I stood in front of the tank enjoying the crystal clear water and the healthy beautiful fish. I turned the lights out later and went to bed. When I got up yesterday morning I noticed the water was really cloudy, I have a pair of Maroon clowns that like to dig up the substrate so I assume that they had been redecorating again. And hour later I check the tank again and all my fish are on the bottom gasping!
I go into panic mode and start a big water change, I just about lost my mind waiting for the water to fill my 40 gallon tub, it seemed to take forever.... by the time it was full and I had the salt mix in my big fish weren't moving any more.... I frantically start draining the tank, while I'm doing that my Mom stops by and decided that my tub of new salt water was too full and she grabbed a dirty mop bucket from the kitchen and scoops out some water!!!!!! I actually stopped and cried.....
It was all the mix that I had left so I had no choice but to use it...... every thing that I did went wrong, I knocked things over, broke a drawer, spilled salt water and fresh all over the living room carpet...... I got the water changed and didn't have enough to refill the tank high enough to run the filter..... so I drag out my old canister filter and hook it up to get the water moving while I run to town to get more salt. My adult Emperor angel was not breathing and neither was my saucer sized Heniochus butterfly, I run into the other room were I have a 55 for a quarantine tank, adjust the salinity to match the big tank and scoop the two big fish out and put them in the 55. At this point I figured that I had nothing to lose by trying this since the looked dead already..... they were.
I make a mad dash to town (30 miles away) buy the only box of salt a the pet store and run back and mix enough water to get all the filters going and turn on the lights.... I had lost the prettiest Lemon peel Angel, my big blue head wrasse, royal gramma (still can't find the body) my coral banded shrimp and of course my Emperor and Heni. All that I have left are my Maroon clowns and three Pajama cardinals and snails and hermits. I am heart broken.......
This fish were perfect and 10 hours later they were dead. The only change was to add a few snails and a hermit, nothing else. They came out of a pristine tank full of healthy inverts so I doubt that they caused this. I have not tested the water but I will soon. The remaining animals seem OK but I plan on doing another water change tonight just in case. I also hooked up a HUGE protein skimmer in the sump, it's rated for a 300 gallon tank, funny thing is nothing is coming out of it yet???
I wish that I knew what happened..... I'm going to be scared to buy any more fish for fear of this happening again, especially at the current prices...... the Angel would cost $170 to replace as an adult, even a juvi is what $80 or $90? I make $12 an hour, I can't afford fish priced like that.
I go into panic mode and start a big water change, I just about lost my mind waiting for the water to fill my 40 gallon tub, it seemed to take forever.... by the time it was full and I had the salt mix in my big fish weren't moving any more.... I frantically start draining the tank, while I'm doing that my Mom stops by and decided that my tub of new salt water was too full and she grabbed a dirty mop bucket from the kitchen and scoops out some water!!!!!! I actually stopped and cried.....
It was all the mix that I had left so I had no choice but to use it...... every thing that I did went wrong, I knocked things over, broke a drawer, spilled salt water and fresh all over the living room carpet...... I got the water changed and didn't have enough to refill the tank high enough to run the filter..... so I drag out my old canister filter and hook it up to get the water moving while I run to town to get more salt. My adult Emperor angel was not breathing and neither was my saucer sized Heniochus butterfly, I run into the other room were I have a 55 for a quarantine tank, adjust the salinity to match the big tank and scoop the two big fish out and put them in the 55. At this point I figured that I had nothing to lose by trying this since the looked dead already..... they were.
I make a mad dash to town (30 miles away) buy the only box of salt a the pet store and run back and mix enough water to get all the filters going and turn on the lights.... I had lost the prettiest Lemon peel Angel, my big blue head wrasse, royal gramma (still can't find the body) my coral banded shrimp and of course my Emperor and Heni. All that I have left are my Maroon clowns and three Pajama cardinals and snails and hermits. I am heart broken.......
This fish were perfect and 10 hours later they were dead. The only change was to add a few snails and a hermit, nothing else. They came out of a pristine tank full of healthy inverts so I doubt that they caused this. I have not tested the water but I will soon. The remaining animals seem OK but I plan on doing another water change tonight just in case. I also hooked up a HUGE protein skimmer in the sump, it's rated for a 300 gallon tank, funny thing is nothing is coming out of it yet???
I wish that I knew what happened..... I'm going to be scared to buy any more fish for fear of this happening again, especially at the current prices...... the Angel would cost $170 to replace as an adult, even a juvi is what $80 or $90? I make $12 an hour, I can't afford fish priced like that.
