snakeblitz33
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone,
In a tank that I take care of, I can't figure it out worth anything. It's a 225 gallon aquarium, two mag drive 12's and two hydor koralia 4's in it for extra flow. It gets a 10% water change once a week.
Water Parameters are as follows:
Nitrate: 20ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Phosphate 0.01+-
pH: 8.3
Alk: 6 dKH
Temp: 78F
First, a 12" naso tang got ich. I took him out and treated him, he died. Then, the yellow tang wouldn't eat, the sailfin and the foxface got ich. I took them out and treated them, they got better. Then, the following week when I came back, the lawnmower blenny, the pink spotted goby, a cardinal, a strawberry pseudo, a royal gramma (I know the pseudo and gramma don't get along, but they did in this large tank.) and a couple of other fish just disappeared or died.
I put the sailfin and the foxface back in the tank. The yellow tang refused to eat and it died in my care. Then, a week later, I went back and the foxface had died and a chromis had died. The owners took the dead fish out.
I took the water parameters again:
Nitrate: ~30ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Phosphate: 0.01+-
pH: 8.2
Alk: 6dKH
Temp:76F
Salinity: 1.022
Now, understandibly, the nitrate would go up, but what would cause these fish to just... die? The only thing that I can think of now is electrical shock - but everything is on a GFCI Unit. I haven't tested with a voltmeter yet though.
Not everything died of Ich either. No, there's not a mantis shrimp because nothing new has been put in the tank for at least six months. No new rock or anything.
If anyone needs me to check any other parameters, do any testing, anything at all - let me know. I want to get this thing under control before I put some new fish in there.
Thanks everyone.
In a tank that I take care of, I can't figure it out worth anything. It's a 225 gallon aquarium, two mag drive 12's and two hydor koralia 4's in it for extra flow. It gets a 10% water change once a week.
Water Parameters are as follows:
Nitrate: 20ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Phosphate 0.01+-
pH: 8.3
Alk: 6 dKH
Temp: 78F
First, a 12" naso tang got ich. I took him out and treated him, he died. Then, the yellow tang wouldn't eat, the sailfin and the foxface got ich. I took them out and treated them, they got better. Then, the following week when I came back, the lawnmower blenny, the pink spotted goby, a cardinal, a strawberry pseudo, a royal gramma (I know the pseudo and gramma don't get along, but they did in this large tank.) and a couple of other fish just disappeared or died.
I put the sailfin and the foxface back in the tank. The yellow tang refused to eat and it died in my care. Then, a week later, I went back and the foxface had died and a chromis had died. The owners took the dead fish out.
I took the water parameters again:
Nitrate: ~30ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Phosphate: 0.01+-
pH: 8.2
Alk: 6dKH
Temp:76F
Salinity: 1.022
Now, understandibly, the nitrate would go up, but what would cause these fish to just... die? The only thing that I can think of now is electrical shock - but everything is on a GFCI Unit. I haven't tested with a voltmeter yet though.
Not everything died of Ich either. No, there's not a mantis shrimp because nothing new has been put in the tank for at least six months. No new rock or anything.
If anyone needs me to check any other parameters, do any testing, anything at all - let me know. I want to get this thing under control before I put some new fish in there.
Thanks everyone.
