JohnnyRedd
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For those that remember the wife's 120 cube would not clear ammonia. It would go from .20 to .50 and back down. This went on for months and nothing but the 4 original fish would survive.
Now we're a couple of months out of cycle. 120 pounds of new rock. GREAT Cheato growth in the new HOB fuge. Corals are looking fantastic. Skimmer works well and we have coraline growing on the glass. I don't have the numbers in front of me but the tank tests out within acceptable parameters. I would not be posting if I found anything out of whack. It tests very close to the 240 which it should since they share water source, salt, food, etc.
and fish keep dying.
The Cherub Angel and the Black Ice Clowns are hanging tough. The goby (I forgot which one it is) is fine. There is a cleaner wrasse, 3 black cardinals and a 3 inch sailfin tang.
Within the last 24 hours a 3.5 inch lemon tang and a 3 inch tomini tang have died. Both eating well. Saturday her 2.5 inch Royal Gramma just laid in the sand and quit moving. The Gramma and the lemon arrived 3 weeks ago. The Tomini last weekend. A few weeks ago she lost a Carpenter Wrasse and a few others along the way.
I don't get it. I have fish living in the sump of the 240 but we can't get more than a few fish to stay alive in this cube. Multiple vendors. Three LFS and Live Aquaria. Some fish last days some fish last weeks but we are back to a small solid group of survivors and can't seem to get past that number.
Interesting thing - the new collection of nerite snails do the same thing as last time - they hide in the sand until we put an algae clip in. Then they send a few to the top and the drop the seaweed to the sand bed and pile on. The snails that came out of the cube (that did this previously) do not do this in the 240.
Now we're a couple of months out of cycle. 120 pounds of new rock. GREAT Cheato growth in the new HOB fuge. Corals are looking fantastic. Skimmer works well and we have coraline growing on the glass. I don't have the numbers in front of me but the tank tests out within acceptable parameters. I would not be posting if I found anything out of whack. It tests very close to the 240 which it should since they share water source, salt, food, etc.
and fish keep dying.
The Cherub Angel and the Black Ice Clowns are hanging tough. The goby (I forgot which one it is) is fine. There is a cleaner wrasse, 3 black cardinals and a 3 inch sailfin tang.
Within the last 24 hours a 3.5 inch lemon tang and a 3 inch tomini tang have died. Both eating well. Saturday her 2.5 inch Royal Gramma just laid in the sand and quit moving. The Gramma and the lemon arrived 3 weeks ago. The Tomini last weekend. A few weeks ago she lost a Carpenter Wrasse and a few others along the way.
I don't get it. I have fish living in the sump of the 240 but we can't get more than a few fish to stay alive in this cube. Multiple vendors. Three LFS and Live Aquaria. Some fish last days some fish last weeks but we are back to a small solid group of survivors and can't seem to get past that number.
Interesting thing - the new collection of nerite snails do the same thing as last time - they hide in the sand until we put an algae clip in. Then they send a few to the top and the drop the seaweed to the sand bed and pile on. The snails that came out of the cube (that did this previously) do not do this in the 240.
