New Fish Problems

[efarm10]

I can not figure out what is going wrong. I lost a blueface angel after two days. I lost cuban hogfish after two days. I lost a Emp. angel after 4 days. All established fish doing just fine. The lost fish looked and were all eating up to death. There were no visable signs of disease. Any help would help me out greatly.

 

[jerth6932]

how long has the tank been established? And what are your Levels?

 

[efarm10]

The tank has been set up since Jun 05. Test levels are NO2 ,0. NO3. 10, NH3. 0, PH 8.3, sal. 1.023, temp. 80. the helthy fish are a flame hawk, Two clowns, c.c star, eng. gobie, and yellow tail damsel. the new fish that die all go the same fine for two days then gasping followed by death on the third day. Bought from different stores all drip accl. for about an hour. Any thoughts.

 

[jerth6932]

how many did you introduce at once?

 

[jr2857]

tank size maybe affect it. also check if the skimmers, heaters, filters, etc. are working. if tank size to small, lack of oxygen may be the cause of death

 

[jr2857]

last chance if the problem is not found is to reset up the tank. that would suck

 

[efarm10]

The tank size is a 125 fish only with about 80 #s of live rock. have two brand new ebo jager 200w heaters. the protein skimmers seems to be working fine. Have given about aweek or two between trying each fish. Really took the death of the angels hard they were looking and eating great. Thought it might be the oxygen thing so pointed all three power heads to surface.

 

[jerth6932]

surface agitation is a good thing!