SereneMarine
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Tank up and running 6 months, had a few recent crisis and now my clowns and goby won't eat. Would someone experienced PLEASE help me fix this. My heart loves these critters and I am so worried.
Water parameters were good at the beginning of these events.
1. While doing my weekly water change, I now know why, my heater exploded. There was actually fire in the back chamber of the tank. I unplugged everything, cleaned it up (including all the carbon that spilled into that chamber) and then added additional fresh salt water to compensate for the loss of that section of water. So I ended up with about 6 gallon water change in a 30 gallon biocube.
2. In the meantime I overnighted a new heater from Amazon as I am in a rural area and there was just no way to immediately get a new heater. Had ordered a blenny and a chromis from liveaquaria.com before the heater crisis so they came the same day as the new heater. Heater installed and up and running while the fish floated in their bag. Temp stabilized, drip acclimation started. Released fish at appropriate time and everybody was doing great.
3. Day 2, had a massive ammonia spike in the a.m., 2.0. Did a 3 gallon water change immediately, left for work and when I got home the ammonia was down to 0.25. Added some Seachem Stability. BUT NOW, MY CLOWNS AND GOBY WON'T EAT.
4. Day 3, ammonia still at 0.25 in a.m. Did 2 gallon change and added another capfull of Stability. Clowns and goby still won't eat, won't eat pellets or frozen soaked in garlic. And another sign of problems to me is that my pulsing xenias are tight and not pulsing.
I think I know what is going on, I think the temp in the tank dropped too low during the night when the heater was lost. What I want to know is how if there is a way can I speed this recovery process along without stressing the fish further? Will they recover? Is there more that I can do?
Water parameters were good at the beginning of these events.
1. While doing my weekly water change, I now know why, my heater exploded. There was actually fire in the back chamber of the tank. I unplugged everything, cleaned it up (including all the carbon that spilled into that chamber) and then added additional fresh salt water to compensate for the loss of that section of water. So I ended up with about 6 gallon water change in a 30 gallon biocube.
2. In the meantime I overnighted a new heater from Amazon as I am in a rural area and there was just no way to immediately get a new heater. Had ordered a blenny and a chromis from liveaquaria.com before the heater crisis so they came the same day as the new heater. Heater installed and up and running while the fish floated in their bag. Temp stabilized, drip acclimation started. Released fish at appropriate time and everybody was doing great.
3. Day 2, had a massive ammonia spike in the a.m., 2.0. Did a 3 gallon water change immediately, left for work and when I got home the ammonia was down to 0.25. Added some Seachem Stability. BUT NOW, MY CLOWNS AND GOBY WON'T EAT.
4. Day 3, ammonia still at 0.25 in a.m. Did 2 gallon change and added another capfull of Stability. Clowns and goby still won't eat, won't eat pellets or frozen soaked in garlic. And another sign of problems to me is that my pulsing xenias are tight and not pulsing.
I think I know what is going on, I think the temp in the tank dropped too low during the night when the heater was lost. What I want to know is how if there is a way can I speed this recovery process along without stressing the fish further? Will they recover? Is there more that I can do?