fish died in quarantine

UFO8MyCow

UFO8MyCow

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I went to feed my first two fish the QT tank in the fish room before work today and found my six line wrasse dead on the bottom. I have had him and a orange fire fish in there for 6 days and hadn't noticed any issues with either of them. The fire fish looks healthy and is swimming around .

After I took him out I inspected him and didn't see any signs of disease not that I really know what to look for but there were no spots or anything else strange.

The tank is 15 gallons and is in a dark room with a freshwater led fixture above it and I have been keeping the white lights off and only using the moon lights unless I am feeding.I have been doing 1/2 gallon auto water changes daily and siphoned all the detritus from the bottom of the tank yesterday and added water from the main display. I have been feeding LRS reef frenzy nano. and the fire fish didnt eat the first day but the wrasse did.

I tested the water with my API test kit and here are the results.

Temp 79
SG 1.024
PH 7.8
Ammonia 0.0
Nitrite 0.25
nitrate 0.0

I realize the PH is a little low but would that cause a death?

I did take a couple pics of him after I removed him but I thought that may be kinda creepy to put on here.
 
It happens..... thats why we QT.
That PH wouldn't kill the fish.
The good thing you kept whatever killed that fish out of you DT. Sometimes you just cant see what kills them.

I have 2 fish in QT right now and last week my heater got stuck on. QT tank temp got to 93 degrees before i found out. I thought theyd be dead for sure, i was wrong they both pulled through.... thanks to a six pack of cold beer i had in the fridge(all i had to cool it down).
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I was proud of you for sacrificing your cold beer for the fish but then I realized it was Michelob ultra. Must have been the wifes?
 
UFO8MyCow said:
I was proud of you for sacrificing your cold beer for the fish but then I realized it was Michelob ultra. Must have been the wifes?
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LOL my sister was over for the football game. I bought a 12 pack for us :lolspin: she likes it... truth is ill drink anything.
Wish my wife would drink.... id have more beer in the fridge.
 
If you have a nitrite reading then you may have had ammonia at some stage ie maybe the tank isn't fully cycled? Is that rock from your DT?
 
suta4242 said:
If you have a nitrite reading then you may have had ammonia at some stage ie maybe the tank isn't fully cycled? Is that rock from your DT?
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This plus a thousand.. The tank was still cycling or just starting a cycle..
May have been what killed your fish. Sorry about your loss.. I know how it feels :(
 
I don't have any rock in my QT. I am using a marine land bio-wheel HOB filter, heater, and some PVC fittings.. I have a ammonia badge in there that I have checked twice a day and haven't seen it change
 
There is constantly ammonia in our tanks from fish waste. It's always there but the bacteria consume it and the whole process of cycle works here as well. Ammonia-Nitrites-Nitrates. Since you don't have any nitrate consuming bacteria yet, you only see the nitrates. Mature tanks build up this nitrate consuming bacteria that is why mature tanks are so much more stable and with hardly any nitrates.
 
The
Op doesn't have rocks in his qt, that was another posters tank. To the op, good on you for having a qt. where did you
Get the fish from? What was the sg of the tank that they were in originally?
 
The fish came from a LFS. Im not sure of the SG but but I do remember that both fish came from different systems and were bagged seperatly. one of them was 1.024 and the other was around 1.020
 
UFO8MyCow said:
The fish came from a LFS. Im not sure of the SG but but I do remember that both fish came from different systems and were bagged seperatly. one of them was 1.024 and the other was around 1.020
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I would venture to say the firefish was in the small systems with the inverts and corals, most lfs I have seen do it that way, and the six line came from a larger system with fish only? If that's the case, maybe you introduced to six line to higher sg too fast?
 
Nitrite of 0.25!

Nitrite is toxic to fish also. That could have been the cause. You really need to have a good bio filter on a QT tank.
 
So what should I do with the file fish? He is still eating and not showing any signs of problems. I was only planning on keeping them both in observation for two weeks then adding them to the main tank.
 
I would at a minimum treat with prazi pro since flukes has been the main cause of death of my new fish throught the years.
If your not treating for ich prevention with TTM or some other way, I would hold it in QT much longer. Some people might think this is over kill but i keep my fish in QT for 2 months and treat with 3 rds minimum of prazi pro just as a prevention.
Since it was in a tank along with a fish that had a mysterious death. Id definitely hold it longer than 2 weeks.
 
I have 4 trays in my freezer 2 of pure rodi water and the other two of mixed salt water. when the tank gets too hot i put them in the filter or sump (usually in a sock or something so i can pull them out.
 
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