boilermaker1
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Forgive this for probably getting long and a little rant-ish, I'm so frustrated right now that I'm ready to give up.
Here goes....
6 weeks ago we bought a house, so I had to move my tank. I decided it was a good time to upgrade a bit, so I went from a 180 which was doing perfectly, to a 220 in the wall of my basement which is doing absolutely miserably.
I moved all the fish, all the rock all the coral, it all made it over here. I set the tank up and it was running before I moved the fish, I then moved the fish, got them over here to realize the rubbermaid tub they were in was leaking, so sooner than I wanted to, but not so early that the tank wasnt ready, I had no choice but to put them in. A couple days later, I acclimated and added the corals, next morning, all my acros were dead.
Several days go by, nothing else really doing spectacularly but I figured the coral would take a few days to settle in. The fish were eating like little pigs, but then my Blue Tang started showing a few spots.... wonderful, havent had ich in 3 years. It was just a few spots, and it cleared in a day or two, then a few days after that, all my fish had ich.... spots everywhere.
I have too many fish and too small of a QT to pull them all out, so I did it in reverse and yanked the corals, and started a hypo cycle on my display. This is about when the mayhem started. That was sunday, since then I've lost 5 fish that I've been able to find (2 anthias, a zosters butterfly, a starry blenny and one of my clowns), my majestic angel is MIA, my other clown looks horrible (she looks to be sloughing her slimecoat off). I've got a couple more anthias that look like nothing is wrong with them, the blue tang looks spot free but hasnt come out from under a rock for more than a minute in 2 days, and my other butterfly, a yellow pyramid, looks decent, and is alert and sometimes swims around. The only fish that are eating are the remaining anthias, and occasionally the yellow pyramid.
I'm still in the process of dropping the salinity, as I'm limited by the amount of water I can make in a day when I'm home to monitor it.
When I moved tanks, the sand was new, and a couple of the rocks were new, but it was all dead, dry items that were rinsed and cycled before adding.
I'm at an utter loss of what to do now. I feel helpless in stopping this despite spending almost every waking minute I'm not at work trying to do something. Is it possible to have had something in the sand even though it was dry?
I cant think of anything else that could have been introduced. The last fish I got was almost a year ago. Havent gotten new coral in even longer than that. Everything is QTed and I havent seen a spot of ich in my display in almost 3 years (that time everything was removed and fallowed). Can it be possible that I'm dealing with something that isnt ich? And if thats possible, without adding any live items, how the heck can that be possible?
Ammo is 0, PH is 8.15, temp is 79, everything else is looking pretty normal as well. The water is RODI and Seachem reef salt.
Here goes....
6 weeks ago we bought a house, so I had to move my tank. I decided it was a good time to upgrade a bit, so I went from a 180 which was doing perfectly, to a 220 in the wall of my basement which is doing absolutely miserably.
I moved all the fish, all the rock all the coral, it all made it over here. I set the tank up and it was running before I moved the fish, I then moved the fish, got them over here to realize the rubbermaid tub they were in was leaking, so sooner than I wanted to, but not so early that the tank wasnt ready, I had no choice but to put them in. A couple days later, I acclimated and added the corals, next morning, all my acros were dead.
Several days go by, nothing else really doing spectacularly but I figured the coral would take a few days to settle in. The fish were eating like little pigs, but then my Blue Tang started showing a few spots.... wonderful, havent had ich in 3 years. It was just a few spots, and it cleared in a day or two, then a few days after that, all my fish had ich.... spots everywhere.
I have too many fish and too small of a QT to pull them all out, so I did it in reverse and yanked the corals, and started a hypo cycle on my display. This is about when the mayhem started. That was sunday, since then I've lost 5 fish that I've been able to find (2 anthias, a zosters butterfly, a starry blenny and one of my clowns), my majestic angel is MIA, my other clown looks horrible (she looks to be sloughing her slimecoat off). I've got a couple more anthias that look like nothing is wrong with them, the blue tang looks spot free but hasnt come out from under a rock for more than a minute in 2 days, and my other butterfly, a yellow pyramid, looks decent, and is alert and sometimes swims around. The only fish that are eating are the remaining anthias, and occasionally the yellow pyramid.
I'm still in the process of dropping the salinity, as I'm limited by the amount of water I can make in a day when I'm home to monitor it.
When I moved tanks, the sand was new, and a couple of the rocks were new, but it was all dead, dry items that were rinsed and cycled before adding.
I'm at an utter loss of what to do now. I feel helpless in stopping this despite spending almost every waking minute I'm not at work trying to do something. Is it possible to have had something in the sand even though it was dry?
I cant think of anything else that could have been introduced. The last fish I got was almost a year ago. Havent gotten new coral in even longer than that. Everything is QTed and I havent seen a spot of ich in my display in almost 3 years (that time everything was removed and fallowed). Can it be possible that I'm dealing with something that isnt ich? And if thats possible, without adding any live items, how the heck can that be possible?
Ammo is 0, PH is 8.15, temp is 79, everything else is looking pretty normal as well. The water is RODI and Seachem reef salt.
