GSM Help please

[Brazengrrl]

I have a GSM, I have had her since the beginning of my tank. SHe has always been healthy and feisty. She and my bleached BTA have lived harmonously since then. I have had to treat my tank for Red Slime and since then my BTA has appeared to deflate like he was going to the bathroom every day and my GSM has been staying at the bottom of the tank acting very nervously. I did a water change yesterday and now she is hanging out at the top of the tank and she does not look well. My whole tank looks bad, it as if all of my LR has been under the sand and seems to now be getting hair algae. I have a yellow tang, kohl tang and scooter blenny that look fine, but I dont know what to do about the GSM. I have a 10 gallon tank and a power head, should I set up a hospital tank, and if so should I use fresh water or tank some from the tank? I hope this all makes sense and someone can give me some advice.

 

[cristhiam]

Are you using your skimmer? you might want to put some airstones, whe I use chemi clean for some reason it depletes the oxigen out of the tank

 

[waterfaller1]

Do not add airstones, corals don't like it, and it irritates the gills of sw fish. You need to test all of your parameters first. Is there any possibility of a foreign substance getting into the water, or from your hands, or the environment, the bucket used? Is anything missing..ie: dead..that could cause an ammonia spike? Test your PO4 as well as Alkalinity, amm, and nitrite,nitrate,PH. How much did you use?

 

[Brazengrrl]

Ok, heres the update. The BTA is open today and the GSM slept in him last night, but this morning she is swimming near the bottom of the tank. The bubbles from my skimmer were irritating the heck out of everything in the tank, because this morning there are alot less bubbles coming from the skimmer. The GSM even had bubbles stuck to her thats how bad it was. BUT there was a sand sifter starfish that had most of his legs gone ( by the pistol shromp I think ) gone and he died. I will test everything now and double check that thats not the problem.