HELP! All my tangs are DEAD!
- Thread starter dj synystr
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I believe alot of people have those feelings...
A little food for thought. Acceptable bio load is not just how much ammonia the filters can convert. It is also about oxygen capacity vs oxygen demands, sufficient elbow space, build up of hormones and such that can't be tested on a hobbyist scale and more. A yellow tang or hippo tang at all of 4" after 2 years is a tang with drastically stunted growth. Stunted growth is not a sign of a healthy fish, quite the contrary. Such problems often are accompanied by other health problems. A healthy tang in an adequate environment will grow, I've grown a few well past 5 inches myself and have seen many large (even over 10") tangs in friends tanks. So please give the overstocking/bioload issue some more thought as those issues are quite real and do very much apply to the situation.
integlikewhoa
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Why nothing said about the food put into the tank?
Ideally your macroalgae in the refugium should always have some air bubbles around them, meaning the water is saturated with O2 and any excess O2 produced by the algae is released out of the water.
I also run my fuge lights 24/7 with Chaeto and a few others, air bubbles (O2) are always visible on the algae.
I also run my fuge lights 24/7 with Chaeto and a few others, air bubbles (O2) are always visible on the algae.
JmLee
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6680270#post6680270 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rcarruth
I added up adult sizes for the five tangs, the trigger, the damsel and a lionfish. Unfortunately, "fish" is the plural of "fish" so I can see how I could have been misread.
-Clark
ohhhh i see!! yeah i was like whoa.... six foot tang? where!?
boxfishpooalot
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What kind of phosphate media are you using?
I heard that some product(probably phosphate) has a tendancy to kill tangs. Cant remember the name.
All I can see is you do change the phosphate media a lot. Possible cause also is the phosphate media. Especially since only the tangs died??
I heard that some product(probably phosphate) has a tendancy to kill tangs. Cant remember the name.
All I can see is you do change the phosphate media a lot. Possible cause also is the phosphate media. Especially since only the tangs died??
dj synystr
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i use a predator 2 skimmer. i have concluded it was the water change. that sthe only hting i changed that had to do with o2
dj synystr
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as for the reason it did it this time and not all the other times. i did a larger water change this time around because it had been a while since the last one. as for the phosphate media i only h ave to change it once every 3 or 4 weeks. the brand of it is phos-lock and has always worked well for me.
boxfishpooalot
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Im not 100% sure if RO removes oxygen, but If your using hot water, there will be a lot less oxygen compared to cold. Possibly may want to switch it to cold?Or just forget it if your already using cold. I do know that RO cannot remove CO2 because its too small and passes through the chamber(s).
ummm, you may want to check about O2 in the chemistry forum...:lol: good old Randy "the Droid"
ummm, you may want to check about O2 in the chemistry forum...:lol: good old Randy "the Droid"
John Kelly
Goniopora Aficionado
If there was excess co2 in the tank, wouldn't the ph have been much lower than 8.4?
Kent recently had a problem with some of their buckets of salt .....are you using Kent salt?
Edit: Also, I would think that fish respiration slows down at night too...???...just a guess.
Kent recently had a problem with some of their buckets of salt .....are you using Kent salt?
Edit: Also, I would think that fish respiration slows down at night too...???...just a guess.
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