Fish killing fish

[WaterMelon]

Hi, my boss is going to fair me...... i work on a LFS,
i make the last fish order, and i pick the species to buy and all that, but, every fish is finghting, Please help me. All aquariums are conected so water quality is basicaly same:

NO3 40ppm
NO2 0ppm
NH3/NH4 0ppm
Ph. 8.2

Remember is a LFS is hard to low nitrate....
Well tank1:
30gal, coralife65, and 1 powerhead 300gph
4 neon velvet damiselfish (after i go for food 4, before just 3 i got eated), 2 jewel damisel fish, 2 bicolor damiselfish, 1 yellow tang, 1 purple anthias, 1 squierrel fish, i singapure angel fish, 1 racon butterfly, the jewel damiselfish is damaged, the neon damiselfish 1 die 2 have damaged fins.

Tank2:
70gal, wet dry, seaclone 100, mh 10,000°K 250wats
2 nemos (a.ocellaris), 1 semicirculatus angelfish, 1 sailfin tang, i bicolor parrot, the semicirculatos angel dont come out, dont eat, and look very stressed, i have lights off but is dificulty be cause customers like to buy in full light.

Tank3:
30gal, coralife 65, magnum 350, UV 9wats coralife
Many fish LOL, the dory (blue tang, P. hepatus?), is picking a yellow eye tang and a blue starfish, why?.

The other 2 tannks are fire, thats all.

 

[BreadmanMike]

Dude that is way too many fish for them little tanks. Sometimes I think you post to humor yourself and others....

 

[thanhtan090982]

damsels fish are evil they will kill each other even if it's not in the same group. They even bite my hand if I stick it into the tank.

 

[WaterMelon]

god, so i will never buy a damiselsfish again, but can you belive they are just 1.25 bucks, is very cheap, well no i dont lie Aquaticman74, maybe you dont belive me but im telling true, in fruitland ppl put 10-20 fish in 30gals aquariums, LFS always full tanks, but fish stay in the aquarium no longer more than 2 days, but btw this time i dont know whats going to happend, but i just want fish suvirve, im search them a good home, but customers dont like damiselfish.... well gotta go some1 get in the store.

 

[BreadmanMike]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7730858#post7730858 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by WaterMelon
in fruitland ppl put 10-20 fish in 30gals aquariums

This is what I mean... Every thread you start has some kind of ridiculous story. How can anyone take you serious?

 

[ACBlinky]

LFS tanks are often crowded, but that's an AWFUL lot of damsels. Being an LFS tank I'm guessing there's very little decoration as well (makes the fish hard to catch).
Whether the fish are in the tanks for two days or two years, the same guidelines apply -- research first, choose fish that are compatible, and give them some hiding places so they're less prone to fight for territory.
BTW where is 'fruit land'? What country are you in, I'm just curious

 

[scaryperson27]

Do you have any spare tanks at hand? Maybe You could set them or it up to alleviate the stress on the fish. Just do a "water change" but stick the water take out of the other tanks in the new one. Seperate the trouble and troubled fish into different tanks. Ect. This isn't rocket science.

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Yeah watermelon every time you post something, on RC, it makes me shake my head. Thats all I have to say.

 

[Tu Ku]

Yeah, there's no way that you were aloud to order fish and place them into tanks in the "fruitland" fish store that you work at and you have no idea what you're doing. People that run businesses just don't make mistakes of hiring people as clueless as you appear to be and not train them to handle this type of situation, the most basic situation of such a job! If I wasn't already wasting hours a day on this site, I would ask you to stop wasting my time.

 

[masterqaz]

LOL. aww that is quite funny.

 

[msuzuki126]

I remember an old thread from him about getting stung by an anemone. It was quite funny and didn't seem serious at all.

 

[TWallace]

Fruitland is Mexico as I recall from an older post of his. I think his posts are great, he's one of my favorite posters on this board .

 

[tsquad]

You guys need to give him a break, clearly English is not his first language. And Mexico seems to be the opposite of Germany in regards to reefkeeping, they are quite behind.

Watermelon, I suggest getting rid of a few of the larger fish, and splitting the damsels up.

 

[shawnaus17]

Well it depends on what you call overcrowding. I have a Hippo tang he swim in the rock work doesn't come out and free swim, a yellow tang he like going back and forth, a sailfin tang he is like the yellow expect he likes swiming threw the work too, 4 damsel yellow tail, 4 striped, chromis, blue devil, 5 gobies pink spotted dragon goby yellow watchman goby green clown goby jawfish. All my fish are fine. The tangs are fine. I don't believe though stocking a 30 gallon with 20 fish 8 at the most.

 

[scaryperson27]

I say sell the damsels off as fast as possible. Since you got them for such a good deal, why dont you try selling them to another store for the price you payed or maybe a little profit?? Anything to save your job. And please learn from this. I'm a novice in reefkeeping and i would never make the mistake of sticking 20 fish in a 30 gal. maybe damsels alone but thats it.