jordan2496
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no they came from differnt stores it's my girlfriends fish so if the fish dies, so do i lol
what's wrong with my clownfish
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Kristin1234
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Uh ohh. Well... I wish you the best. Lol!! Hopefully she understands. How are you acclimating your fish? Temp of the tank?
jordan2496
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just the old put the bag in the tank for a while. I've always done this before. between 73-75 usually
Kristin1234
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Some may argue but I think you should do more. Lol. I usually float bag then empty bag into a fish safe container and add 1/2 cup of aquarium water every 10 min for an hour. Never put some one else's water into your tank. Some fish require up to 2 hours of acclimation.
jordan2496
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next time I'll do that. im also going to establish a qt tank tonorrow.
bang guy
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There are a lot of debates concerning acclimating fish. All ways are probably valid and have their advantages & disadvantages. If there is a guarantee on a fish then that usually comes with a specific acclimation procedure attached whish should be followed.
For shipped fish ammonia is a big problem. The excess CO2 from the fish's respiration will detox the ammonia by lowering the PH but as soon as you open the bag and the CO2 outgasses the ammonia again becomes highly toxic and the clock starts ticking with damage to the fish for every minute it's in the water. Adding AmQuel will detox the ammonia but it will also reduce available oxygen so again, the clock starts ticking. Personally, I use the drip acclimation method with AmQuel and an airstone to reoxygenate the water. I do not know if that is any better than just plopping the fish directly into the QT after floating the bag to temp acclimate.
For shipped fish ammonia is a big problem. The excess CO2 from the fish's respiration will detox the ammonia by lowering the PH but as soon as you open the bag and the CO2 outgasses the ammonia again becomes highly toxic and the clock starts ticking with damage to the fish for every minute it's in the water. Adding AmQuel will detox the ammonia but it will also reduce available oxygen so again, the clock starts ticking. Personally, I use the drip acclimation method with AmQuel and an airstone to reoxygenate the water. I do not know if that is any better than just plopping the fish directly into the QT after floating the bag to temp acclimate.
The mesh containment could cause more stress to the fish and it isn't serving much purpose since you can't offer treatment in it. There is not much that can offered for treatment without a cycled QT.
Is this fish eating and if so what are you feeding it and how often?
Is this fish eating and if so what are you feeding it and how often?
jordan2496
Member
how do I treat a fish if I don't know what's wrong with it? Iva had various saltwater fish over the past 4 years, never acclimated one of them, and have only lost 1 fish within the first 3 months of owning it
jay0705
Well-Known Member
Over time your mandy should eat frozen. Mine eat, mysis, brine, cyclopese, and prawn roe.
jordan2496
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cool thanks man
jay0705
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When u get new fish check the sg of the water in the bag. If its the same as the tank your temp acc is prob ok. However in some cases lfs keep theres lower, I've seen it as low as 1.017. Now my tanks are at 1.022-1.023 so if I just temp acc and dump that would most likely kill it.
bang guy
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If you know that already in advance why not lower the salinity of your QT to get closer to your LFS? Then you have plenty of time to let salinity rise before adding it to the DT.
Generally speaking, fish handle a rising salinity just fine. Not so true for the opposite but they can handle a lot. Inverts on the other hand... oy!
jay0705
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My qt is at 1.020. Generally the places I get fish from are 1.020-1.025. Not all are the same tho. Also many use hydrometer's I use a refractometer. So there 1.023 maybe be different then mine.
ttotally agree w inverts, you have to spot on. When ur talking a $30-$40 shrimp u better b lol
ttotally agree w inverts, you have to spot on. When ur talking a $30-$40 shrimp u better b lol
jordan2496
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just tested my water and my ammonia was slightly between the 0 and .25 on my test kit. doing a 10 gallon water change with distiller water today. should that help? or is this no problem? I have a green star polyp and pulsing Xenia as well.
jordan2496
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the water was in my tank for 2 weeks with nothing but live rock and a 950gpg circulatory pump
jordan2496
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anyways, the fish died when I examined it out of the water i couldent find any visible problems
jordan2496
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i got my water tested at a legit reef store. same numbers