AliceSchmidt
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1starfish dead, 2 shrimp dead... One bully fish lying on its side gasping. I don't know what to do anymore. Tried evereything. Water is light green. I give up.
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1starfish dead, 2 shrimp dead... One bully fish lying on its side gasping. I don't know what to do anymore. Tried evereything. Water is light green. I give up.
Shawn O
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Gasping fish is usually indicative of low oxygen or possibly ammonia or chlorine poisoning (not positive on that one).
How long has your tank been set up?
Did you complete the cycle before adding livestock?
Is there any Chlorine in the water?
What are your exact water parameters? List the numbers below.
Ammonia:
Nitrite:
Nitrate:
Alkalinity:
PH:
We need this info in order to help you.
How long has your tank been set up?
Did you complete the cycle before adding livestock?
Is there any Chlorine in the water?
What are your exact water parameters? List the numbers below.
Ammonia:
Nitrite:
Nitrate:
Alkalinity:
PH:
We need this info in order to help you.
Dkuhlmann
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Shawn read this: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2533736
AliceSchmidt
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Its been up for 6months. I got a few hermit crabs,1 bully, 7 flagtails. I have good flow of water that has been done a few hours ago by adding power heads. The other stuff can't tell you cause I don't have the things to test the water. Local petshop don't have any in stock. How can I change water quality?
AliceSchmidt
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How can I save my fish.
gone fishin
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I would suggest trying to give away your fish and stop. If you wish to continue then do some research.
You cannot improve water quality without even the most basic tests, It does not appear in either thread you volunteered up any vital info about the tank.
I would like to think you got put into a bad situation and are not just trolling.
You cannot improve water quality without even the most basic tests, It does not appear in either thread you volunteered up any vital info about the tank.
I would like to think you got put into a bad situation and are not just trolling.
Shawn O
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YIKES!
OK, pull the dead things out, do a 20% water change every day & replace the filters twice per week until the problem is solved. Make sure you're not over-feeding. If this is too much, please find homes for the livestock or return them to the sea, if they're local species.
Never return fish to the sea. They likely come from some other ocean and can kill local species. Lionfish entered the Caribbean from that sort of action, and are now a major problem.
That said, first aid for your situation, which is almost certainly lack of oxygen, is an immediate 30% water change, a carbon bag in the water flow, removal of surviving livestock to clean new water in a qt tank, and keeping them there until you have corrected the situation.
No matter where you live, you can purchase tests, salt, appropriate pumps (yours may be too small) live rock and sand, etc, for any tank, including tanks---online. Check our sponsors list. These are reputable merchants. You need a qt tank, at very least. If your water is green, you have a phosphate issue, and should be using a ro/di filter.
We're glad to help, but the situation you describe is a tank crash, and you are going to have to get that surviving fish out to another absolutely clean bare glass tank with good aeration asap, while you take measures to rebuild your tank ecosystem.
That said, first aid for your situation, which is almost certainly lack of oxygen, is an immediate 30% water change, a carbon bag in the water flow, removal of surviving livestock to clean new water in a qt tank, and keeping them there until you have corrected the situation.
No matter where you live, you can purchase tests, salt, appropriate pumps (yours may be too small) live rock and sand, etc, for any tank, including tanks---online. Check our sponsors list. These are reputable merchants. You need a qt tank, at very least. If your water is green, you have a phosphate issue, and should be using a ro/di filter.
We're glad to help, but the situation you describe is a tank crash, and you are going to have to get that surviving fish out to another absolutely clean bare glass tank with good aeration asap, while you take measures to rebuild your tank ecosystem.
stingeragent
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Im assuming all the water in your tank was from the ocean? Do you even have salt mix or a refracto meter or anything? If not, just take whatever is alive to a local fish store. Im afraid hope wont fix your tank.
CStrickland
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the other thread makes it sound like this tank was set up by like walking down to the shore and scooping a bunch of random stuff up to bring home. If that's true, this is probably the only situation where I would think that releasing the stock back to the source would be ok. It sounds like the only chance they'll have. That would only be ok if you never ever added anything from anywhere else. Not even a copepod. Not even frozen food because it may have a viable egg in it. Not even a chunk of rock from another tank.
That almost never happens, but it may have here.
That almost never happens, but it may have here.
stingeragent
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Yea. Id just take everything to a fish store. If something isnt done soon, anything left will be dead in another 24 hrs if that anyways.
AliceSchmidt
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I have given all live stock and live rock to a friend who works at a petstore. I will be setting up a new tank after I have gotten all the right stuff. Can anyone help me by telling me what equipment I should get. I have a 35L tank.
Dkuhlmann
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Everything you need to know is in this link. It's setup kind of like a book with chapters
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1031074
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1031074
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