Clownfish issues

[Orikai66]

About a week and a half ago i added 2 clowns to my freshly cycled 10 gal.

I used bio spira towards the end of my cycle.

2 days ago i added a very small CUC, yellow watchman goby and a small rock of zoas.

Since i got them the clowns seemed to have labored breathing (i think) and they werent super active.

One of them died yesterday. Right before it died it was kind of "falling" to the bottom of the tank, hitting the bottom and sitting there for a minute. Then it would swim away. I also did not see this particular fish eat, so idk if it was starvation or something else.

I thought it could be lack of oxygen so i added an airstone last night.

Since that happened my other clown was hanging out on the zoas for a while and then drifted farther down and is now on the bottom of the tank surround by rockwork (behind the rock with the snail in the pic) and it wont eat now.

All water params are normal and idk what to do...

 

[Orikai66]

I managed to get a pic of the fish from the back of the tank

 

[Dkuhlmann]

What exactly are your parameters?

 

[Orikai66]

Ammonia is slightly higher than 0, maybe like .1
Nitrite 0
Ph 8.2
Nitrate 10
Sg 1.025

I know ammonia should be 0 but i cant see that tiny bit causing all this. Especially since people used cl9wns to cycle tanks.

 

[dochoot]

I have never put fish in a tank with detectable ammonia.

 

[Orikai66]

Unfortunately the fish died. Im going ti take it to my LFS tomorrow to see if they can tell me anything, though i doubt it. Its worth a shot

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Doesn't sound like your tank is cycled. When you were going through the cycle how high did you see ammonia spike?

 

[Reef Bass]

Ammonia is toxic. Tank not completely cycled +1.

 

[Orikai66]

When i was cycling my ammonia went dark green, cant remenber what the highest number on there is right now, 8? Then it went down and nitrites went way up. Now its all 0 except for that small ammonia spike.

I didnt add the fish until that was all done. And i still dont see how that tiny bit of ammonia could have been the problem. People use clown fish to cycle their tanks.

 

[scooter31707]

Also when you finish the cycle, fish should not be the first thing in your tank IMO. CUC should be the first living thing in there.

 

[g_langley]

CUC should be the first living thing in there.

+1, be patient as it pays off. Nothing worse than getting off to a bad start and then losing passion for the hobby.

 

[Orikai66]

I hear ya, thanks for the advice guys