waterchange stressed clown

[nuro]

i did two 20% water changes back to back. After the first one my smallest clown seemed little sluggish and looked to be mouth breathing. I turned the lights off and finished up and he came around in about 20 minutes or so. I made sure to test the ph and salinity of the new water ph was perfect and the salinity was 30 ppt and the tank was at 27/28 ppt(im trying to bring it up). I had a powerhead in the new water for about 20 hours. What did i do wrong?

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by nuro
http:///forum/post/2598299
i did two 20% water changes back to back. After the first one my smallest clown seemed little sluggish and looked to be mouth breathing. I turned the lights off and finished up and he came around in about 20 minutes or so. I made sure to test the ph and salinity of the new water ph was perfect and the salinity was 30 ppt and the tank was at 27/28 ppt(im trying to bring it up). I had a powerhead in the new water for about 20 hours. What did i do wrong?
How long have the clowns been in your tank?

 

[lexluethar]

Was the temp stable?

 

[nuro]

clowns have been in there for 8 days.. the temp of the tank was 79 the water i added was 77

 

[camanuch]

you really want the temp to be rexact. that could of been the problem. also add water slowly to tank. on my 75 with a 30 gal sump i add and remove water through sump so fish dont get stressed at all. use a low pressure pump and let the water slowly pump into tank. if possible. just my .02$

 

[perfectdark]

My guess, assuming your water perameters were spot on, is you just freaked your fish out. 8 days isnt a long time and depending on where they came from anything and everything is new to them, its not hard to stress them out. If your total tank temp went down 2 degress in 5 minutes that too would add to their stress. Not sure what 79* water and 77* water would do to the total tank temp, but anything more than a degree in a 5 minute span could add to the stress. JMO.

 

[ibew41]

what size tank do you have,and what are your tanks water test results?is this a new tank

 

[nuro]

55 and its been up for 3 months. i add the water via the sump, and pump it in, the overall tank temp dropped by about a degree, but it did drop. I had to do the changes because i had been over feeding and had a moderate level of trates and amm, as well as needed to siphon out the slime algae that had formed as a presumed result of the excess nutrients.

 

[ibew41]

trates up a little is ok but no ammonia is ok can you bring some water to a lfs and have it tested?temp dropping a few degrees or up temporarily will not bother the fish.how much flow is in your tank?

 

[stdreb27]

Another thing to consider is the water source, if it had clorine and it was not removed then you will have the same problem. I actually crashed my whole tank that way one of the first times I did a water change.

 

[nuro]

i'm using the tap water filter from aquarium pharm. and i test for chloring before mixing in the salt. I'm fiarly certain the amm was up from over feeding, i did lose a snail earlier in the week that i never found, but he had been on his way out for a few weeks. I'm going to test again tonight to see where I'm at... if i have to do another one I'll post the behaivor of the clown and see what else we can come up with. thanks for all the help!

 

[stdreb27]

Originally Posted by nuro
http:///forum/post/2598496
i'm using the tap water filter from aquarium pharm. and i test for chloring before mixing in the salt. I'm fiarly certain the amm was up from over feeding, i did lose a snail earlier in the week that i never found, but he had been on his way out for a few weeks. I'm going to test again tonight to see where I'm at... if i have to do another one I'll post the behaivor of the clown and see what else we can come up with. thanks for all the help!
Well now that I think about if you leave a power head in the bucket for 24 hours the clorine should not be a problem.

 

[tizzo]

Nuro, do you add any powder buffers to your sump?? I ask because when I added water to my sump it stirred up all that was on the bottom of it, and I was worried at the time that residual buffer may have been in there... A freaked out fish will usually hide, not breathe rapidly. That's strange.
The only thing I can figure is that something was on the bottom your sump that got stirred up. Have you done a parameter check since the water change?

 

[nuro]

Originally Posted by Tizzo
http:///forum/post/2598628
Nuro, do you add any powder buffers to your sump?? I ask because when I added water to my sump it stirred up all that was on the bottom of it, and I was worried at the time that residual buffer may have been in there... A freaked out fish will usually hide, not breathe rapidly. That's strange.
The only thing I can figure is that something was on the bottom your sump that got stirred up. Have you done a parameter check since the water change?
just salinity, i'm going to test when i get home today. i dont add anything at all to the tank, just water and food. it should eb noted that the bigger clown nor my LMB showed any abnormal behaivor