hantzum
New Member
Hi,
I think I am in some need of direction here. I have been a salt water tank hobbyist for going on 9 years now. I had a 80 gallon for 7 of those years and about 2 years ago upgraded to a 200 gallon. What I am so tired of happening is fish and invertebrates dying all the time. I had a large maroon clown with a huge 2 foot long tentacle anenomie with a large blue hippo and two large yellow tangs and some chromis and shrimp for about 5 years in my tank. Never any problems; well I mean if I ever added new fish the new fish would be just fine for a few days but would eventually go into what I call the death swim where they just hover in one spot of the tank then bite the dust over night. I didn't add many fish during this 5 years but just last year we were on vacation and we had a power outage. Well my UPS that keeps the filtration running when this happens must have broke because when we got home all of my guys were dead and none of the equipment was running. So......I cleaned everything out of the tank and did a series of large water changes for several weeks to get all nitrates, nitrites, phosphates, and ammonia out of the tank. I added some hardy blue yellow tail damsels in and let them do there thing for about 5-6 months. No one died and I continued to do bi-monthly water changes of 25%, about 50 gallons worth. I continued to monitor water levels and then just last week placed a massive order with the saltwaterfish.com website. Well I received a few DOA's and a few of the smaller fish died within a few days but everything else look great. Well, every day as I come home I see more of the fish acting weird and now I have two more tangs going into the death swim where they will mst likely be dead by morning. I am at a total loss here. I know this website guarantees there fish for 15 days but I really feel bad making all these guarantee requests because I have dead loss every couple of days. I went ahead and posted a link of how the tank looks as of this Saturday. The anenomie is a little stressed out in this vid but he is doing great now. I will post all of my test results on water conditions below too. I do intend on bumping the salinity up to about 1.0235 over the next couple of weeks because thats where most anenomies like it and get really big. Any suggestions would be great on any additives or medications or anything you may think so I can quit having dead loss every couple of days. Thanks
The first two vids are how the tank looks now. One of the vids is before my order from saltwaterfish.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uf6P8XcHdM&list=UUsTrqjf1uwGAbh6zcZegvew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9elOfFoBFgY&list=UUsTrqjf1uwGAbh6zcZegvew
Here is the vid of how the tank looked earlier last year before the crash happened. All these fish are about 6 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oug9TplMPno&list=UUsTrqjf1uwGAbh6zcZegvew
Tank size:200 gallons
Filtration: One Emperor 400 with active carbon filtration X2. Changed every two weeks.
Two power heads. CAnt remember the brand. you can probably tell in the vid link
10 gallon sump with 200 gallon coralife protein skimmer
2 pouches of Phos-Zorb: changed every 2 months
Lighting: 1 orbit 325 watt light fixture with 2 blue 420nm actinic and 2 10K dual-daylight
1 GLO T-5 with two bulbs. One 460nm actinic and 1 10K dual Daylight
1 Piece of crap light strip the tank came with. I use this mainly to keep the light from getting out into the house and directed down to tank. It serves its purpose. LOL
Current water conditions
Salinity: 1.0215
Ammonia: about.25ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: between 5 and 10 ppm
PH: 8.2
Temperature: 74.4 F*
Phosphate: between 1-2 ppm
Calcium: 420ppm
*dKH- 15
Current supplements added according to the directions of the manufacturer
Kalkwiser added with fill water. Approx 1 tablesppon for 5 gallons
Strontium & Molybdenum
Magnesium
Iodide
I think I am in some need of direction here. I have been a salt water tank hobbyist for going on 9 years now. I had a 80 gallon for 7 of those years and about 2 years ago upgraded to a 200 gallon. What I am so tired of happening is fish and invertebrates dying all the time. I had a large maroon clown with a huge 2 foot long tentacle anenomie with a large blue hippo and two large yellow tangs and some chromis and shrimp for about 5 years in my tank. Never any problems; well I mean if I ever added new fish the new fish would be just fine for a few days but would eventually go into what I call the death swim where they just hover in one spot of the tank then bite the dust over night. I didn't add many fish during this 5 years but just last year we were on vacation and we had a power outage. Well my UPS that keeps the filtration running when this happens must have broke because when we got home all of my guys were dead and none of the equipment was running. So......I cleaned everything out of the tank and did a series of large water changes for several weeks to get all nitrates, nitrites, phosphates, and ammonia out of the tank. I added some hardy blue yellow tail damsels in and let them do there thing for about 5-6 months. No one died and I continued to do bi-monthly water changes of 25%, about 50 gallons worth. I continued to monitor water levels and then just last week placed a massive order with the saltwaterfish.com website. Well I received a few DOA's and a few of the smaller fish died within a few days but everything else look great. Well, every day as I come home I see more of the fish acting weird and now I have two more tangs going into the death swim where they will mst likely be dead by morning. I am at a total loss here. I know this website guarantees there fish for 15 days but I really feel bad making all these guarantee requests because I have dead loss every couple of days. I went ahead and posted a link of how the tank looks as of this Saturday. The anenomie is a little stressed out in this vid but he is doing great now. I will post all of my test results on water conditions below too. I do intend on bumping the salinity up to about 1.0235 over the next couple of weeks because thats where most anenomies like it and get really big. Any suggestions would be great on any additives or medications or anything you may think so I can quit having dead loss every couple of days. Thanks
The first two vids are how the tank looks now. One of the vids is before my order from saltwaterfish.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uf6P8XcHdM&list=UUsTrqjf1uwGAbh6zcZegvew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9elOfFoBFgY&list=UUsTrqjf1uwGAbh6zcZegvew
Here is the vid of how the tank looked earlier last year before the crash happened. All these fish are about 6 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oug9TplMPno&list=UUsTrqjf1uwGAbh6zcZegvew
Tank size:200 gallons
Filtration: One Emperor 400 with active carbon filtration X2. Changed every two weeks.
Two power heads. CAnt remember the brand. you can probably tell in the vid link
10 gallon sump with 200 gallon coralife protein skimmer
2 pouches of Phos-Zorb: changed every 2 months
Lighting: 1 orbit 325 watt light fixture with 2 blue 420nm actinic and 2 10K dual-daylight
1 GLO T-5 with two bulbs. One 460nm actinic and 1 10K dual Daylight
1 Piece of crap light strip the tank came with. I use this mainly to keep the light from getting out into the house and directed down to tank. It serves its purpose. LOL
Current water conditions
Salinity: 1.0215
Ammonia: about.25ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: between 5 and 10 ppm
PH: 8.2
Temperature: 74.4 F*
Phosphate: between 1-2 ppm
Calcium: 420ppm
*dKH- 15
Current supplements added according to the directions of the manufacturer
Kalkwiser added with fill water. Approx 1 tablesppon for 5 gallons
Strontium & Molybdenum
Magnesium
Iodide
