westwind77
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I posted yesterday with a pleade for quick help, now I am trying to figure out what the
happened!
16g bow front, up and running for about 2 years. Never had an issue before with anything. I tested the water before my bi-weekly water change, everything was 'normal'. I have an Eheim Ecco canister, which was due for maint as well. Changed out the pads (like i always do) the ONLY difference in my routine was to dump the substrate balls onto a sheet of tin foil while I cleaned the filter, not into my normal plastic container. Dump the balls back into the filter baskets, and set back up under the tank.
I was using a swing arm for a while until I found this group, then bought the 'good tool' and found my salt to be high, 1.029 in that tank. Took out a few gallons and added a few gallons, problem was I was in a rush and misread the tool, salt was very low in the water added. Dropped the measurement to about 1.022-23, however did not realize this until i got up in the morning and saw all my fish on the bottom breathing extremely fast and looking bad.
The ONLY other thing that I did was change my intake to a different one, which had a crack and I used super glue to fix the grate (which i let dry for a while before installing)
So all morning, afternoon, evening I watched each fish fall over and die
At about midnight I took the remaining 2 out and placed in a 5 gallon bucket of water with about 1 gallon of tank water. Brought them to my 110g and drip acclimated them for about an hour, and placed them into the tank. The 110g is at 1.023 FYI. I figured they were doomed in the other tank, this was a last resort. Woke up this morning and both fish have almost 100% of their color back and it looks like they will make it. I did not want to move anything before for the fear or additional shock would kill them.
What the
happened?!?!?! As far as I can tell it is can only be a couple things......
1) Sudden salanity drop (however they came right back in the 110g with lower levels so that does not make sense)
2) Something with the tinfoil and saltwater created some kind of toxin that i released into the water when the substrate balls was on it.
3) Some chemical came from the superglue that caused this.
Those are the only 3 issues that have been different from all other times.
The coral in the tank was fine, so signs of strees either and have been moved to the 110g as well.
I do not trust the tank now and will break it down 100%. Not even sure I trust the LR, might have absorbed whatever was causing the problems. Not sure I am even going to set that one back up, but anyone want to play a little detective and place their best guess out there?
16g bow front, up and running for about 2 years. Never had an issue before with anything. I tested the water before my bi-weekly water change, everything was 'normal'. I have an Eheim Ecco canister, which was due for maint as well. Changed out the pads (like i always do) the ONLY difference in my routine was to dump the substrate balls onto a sheet of tin foil while I cleaned the filter, not into my normal plastic container. Dump the balls back into the filter baskets, and set back up under the tank.
I was using a swing arm for a while until I found this group, then bought the 'good tool' and found my salt to be high, 1.029 in that tank. Took out a few gallons and added a few gallons, problem was I was in a rush and misread the tool, salt was very low in the water added. Dropped the measurement to about 1.022-23, however did not realize this until i got up in the morning and saw all my fish on the bottom breathing extremely fast and looking bad.
The ONLY other thing that I did was change my intake to a different one, which had a crack and I used super glue to fix the grate (which i let dry for a while before installing)
So all morning, afternoon, evening I watched each fish fall over and die
What the
1) Sudden salanity drop (however they came right back in the 110g with lower levels so that does not make sense)
2) Something with the tinfoil and saltwater created some kind of toxin that i released into the water when the substrate balls was on it.
3) Some chemical came from the superglue that caused this.
Those are the only 3 issues that have been different from all other times.
The coral in the tank was fine, so signs of strees either and have been moved to the 110g as well.
I do not trust the tank now and will break it down 100%. Not even sure I trust the LR, might have absorbed whatever was causing the problems. Not sure I am even going to set that one back up, but anyone want to play a little detective and place their best guess out there?
