marie1993
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I've had my saltwater tank for almost a year and a half maybe.It is a 55 gallon tank with lvbe rock and crushed coral gravel
- V. Lionfish (outgrown tank, was planning on getting him a new home this weekend)
- large clown (atleast had for 6 months)
- dragon wrasse (fairly new, but great appetite)
- snowflake eel (almost a foot)
- many hermit crabs
- as well as a blue damsel and a yellow damsel
I woke up in the morning and my lion was dark and my clown looking like it was about to die. This had just happened 2 weeks ago and we knew what to do to get them better (after our LFS had told is to do) we take out the filter media mainly the carbon and replace it, we add prime, get the protein skimmer on to get the water moving ,do some water changes with double filtered water (brita filter on faucet and pitcher) as well as add some salt if the salinity gets affected (after they look better). Fish literally improove in 10-15 min. This time however, in the afternoon they got bad again, we did the same and added more carbon also. Also raised temp to 84 (was at 82). Fish were fine through rest of day/night.
Woke up to "splashing" around 2:30am (the tank is in my bedroom) the two damsels were literally trying to jump out of the water, the wrasse was dead the clown was dead, the eel was not gulping water to breathe, the lion was on his side dark, and his jaw was locking up when he tried to breathe. Got eel and two fish out into a differnet temporary tank with just filtration, they even had the same aquarium water, and still improved in minutes...all of them.
I have no idea what happened, everything went downhill in less than a month, no fish had diseases, looked stressed, or had stopped eating. All water levels were fine apart from what was high nitrates at the beginning of the month but those had been steadily brought down...
I just was wondering if there is some hidden killer in the tank...could it be hiding in the gravel or the undergravel filter, or in the rocks, or bad city water (even though we filter? My family is not sick?) maybe a combination? It just happens/happened so suddenly and drivIng me mad that I have no answer, even worse that the fish that survived are looking 100% normal again in the same aquarium water that killed the others...
- V. Lionfish (outgrown tank, was planning on getting him a new home this weekend)
- large clown (atleast had for 6 months)
- dragon wrasse (fairly new, but great appetite)
- snowflake eel (almost a foot)
- many hermit crabs
- as well as a blue damsel and a yellow damsel
I woke up in the morning and my lion was dark and my clown looking like it was about to die. This had just happened 2 weeks ago and we knew what to do to get them better (after our LFS had told is to do) we take out the filter media mainly the carbon and replace it, we add prime, get the protein skimmer on to get the water moving ,do some water changes with double filtered water (brita filter on faucet and pitcher) as well as add some salt if the salinity gets affected (after they look better). Fish literally improove in 10-15 min. This time however, in the afternoon they got bad again, we did the same and added more carbon also. Also raised temp to 84 (was at 82). Fish were fine through rest of day/night.
Woke up to "splashing" around 2:30am (the tank is in my bedroom) the two damsels were literally trying to jump out of the water, the wrasse was dead the clown was dead, the eel was not gulping water to breathe, the lion was on his side dark, and his jaw was locking up when he tried to breathe. Got eel and two fish out into a differnet temporary tank with just filtration, they even had the same aquarium water, and still improved in minutes...all of them.
I have no idea what happened, everything went downhill in less than a month, no fish had diseases, looked stressed, or had stopped eating. All water levels were fine apart from what was high nitrates at the beginning of the month but those had been steadily brought down...
I just was wondering if there is some hidden killer in the tank...could it be hiding in the gravel or the undergravel filter, or in the rocks, or bad city water (even though we filter? My family is not sick?) maybe a combination? It just happens/happened so suddenly and drivIng me mad that I have no answer, even worse that the fish that survived are looking 100% normal again in the same aquarium water that killed the others...
