gone fishin
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I would agree with billdogg's assessment. Good luck
Everything is dying!!!
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heathlindner25
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I'm using a fluke t5 600.....
Bl@ckbird
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gone fishin
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:lol::lol: Gary.
heathlindner25
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I'm checking voltage in a fist tank... Is it a bad meter?
i keep waiting for an answer to this question, too. that was my first thought.
Bl@ckbird
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No. Fluke makes a good product. I was laughing because I suggested it may be a poor meter.... Like a harbor freight freebie or something. Lol.
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Pigpen17
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Me too.
radtech1976
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Yes it was the first thing I corrected. I added salt when I did my water changes and got it back up to good levels. But when I came home from my sons soccer game I found my 2 clowns dying. It seems they aren't getting oxygen even though I've added an extra bubbler and did another water change. I'm all out of ideas.
the question is what was your actual salinity reading on your refractometer before you corrected it and what was the actual reading after the correction?
Pigpen17
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Yeah. I was using a swing arm that I have had for 10 years, and come to find out it was way off. I found out my tank was at 1.022. Thank goodness I came here first and asked what to do. I ended up bringing it up over a period of days. It took about a week, but everything went through the change well.
SeaTila
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Lol. I'll keep reading...I'm on the edge of my seat waiting too.
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SeaTila
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Here are some thoughts for you to consider.
My assumption is you moved to using a refractometer and calibrated it with distilled water first. You said first you lost your blood shrimp. That may depend on how fast your salinity dropped in the first place. A friend of mine had a routine maint service and within hours lost all inhabitants. It appears a 20% saltwater change was accidentally done with at least 1 5g of ro in error...very easy to do. I check salinity and temp on every container before I pour in now because we sometimes put saltwater in ro jug because we run out of jugs. In a 200g...I poured 3g of ro in top of tank thinking it was saltwater. Coral under where I poured retracted immediately and quickly died.
Im wondering if ro was buffered (quick ph drop possible) and/or salinity drop faster because you didnt realize you used ro instead of saltwater. And as mentioned the salinity increase/correction sounds good over a week... The refractometer needed the exact number and same refractometer to guide the increase in salinity since interpretation by different people causes variance and also potential callibration issues.
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radtech1976
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It was .014 and after all the water changes it was .025. But most of the fish had already died before I got the salinity back up to normal
SeaTila
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So sorry you had to go thru that. So many things can go wrong. Trying to decide what to do about problems when there is little time to react is so frustrating. Then the aftermath of ...if i had done this or that.
I try to be positive and look at what was learned to avoid next time. My clowns got ich likely due to stress of moving to new tank. I tried to read and plan and yet wasnt sure it was ich at first signs and waited. Some people say wait, some talk about dips. Some just say make sure eating and best h20 conditions and wait and see without adding stress to fish. I decided to wait because never tried cupermune or hypo...one by one i watched them suffer and did nothing. one kept active and eating yet looked horrible for 5+ days. Still I thought he'd pull through but on day 6 he didn't. I had cupermine and a hospital tank but read all about how bad cupermine may be.
I read a ton of Hyposalinity is used to treat ich/velvet and you can drop salinity to 1.009 and fish can live ( ive read about but didnt try it). If ro was introduced in lieu of saltwater it could drop your salinity fast and kill off most everything I would think. Anything left alive is stressed and moving from .014 to .025 within a week seems pretty quick to me but who know if thats the reason. I may have moved the salinity to min like .22 and tried to hold there but no way to know if there would have been different outcome.
When I moved an established tank the salinity was at 1.029+. I dropped it .001 per day to 1.025. There was no sign in the tank from looking at the fish so as long as small moves fish may be able to handle a wide range of salinity. My regards, -S
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ScienceRulez
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In terms of voltage if you dont have your tank on a GFCI, you can buy one that simply plugs into the outlet at your local hardware store, or search online for a GFCI strip outlet.
I don't know what the outlet strips would cost but the stand alone cost me $14.
I don't know what the outlet strips would cost but the stand alone cost me $14.
