Lucas's 20g nano

update

update

water change went ok haha, like I said I'm new to everything and the first thing I did was suck a bunch of sand into the siphon. it was a rough start. After I removed the 2.5 gallons I took the time to clean inside the glass a little bit. I took apart and replaced my carbon in my media reactor. After I was done with the change the water was murky but I woke up to a nice clean and clear tank this morning! I think I will be buying new filter socks soon they are pretty dirty.
 
fish death

fish death

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Well I walked into my room tonight at 2:30am and found my clownfish laying on my carpet, by the time I got to my clownfish it was already shriveled and hard. This will be my first fish death. I am bummed out about the death. This clownfish was my first cool fish and I hand picked him out of a display tank so I am pretty bummed. I thought giving him a little memorial would be nice.
RIP bud, you will forever be my first cool fish. :fish2:
 
Babydaull said:
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Well I walked into my room tonight at 2:30am and found my clownfish laying on my carpet, by the time I got to my clownfish it was already shriveled and hard. This will be my first fish death. I am bummed out about the death. This clownfish was my first cool fish and I hand picked him out of a display tank so I am pretty bummed. I thought giving him a little memorial would be nice.
RIP bud, you will forever be my first cool fish. :fish2:
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Have you tested the water after the change? Maybe the salinity... Keep an eye on it and look for any changes of your coral and the anem.
 
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Water

Water

Got a full test done by Petco today. All levels were great! My salinity was at 1.023 which I thought was weird. So the next time my water gets low I am going to top off with salt water instead of RO water.
 
Fish

Fish

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I was pretty bummed last night about my first clown fish carpet surfing, then this morning I woke up to an email from LFS stating they just got in black clownfish. Sure enough I ended up at the store and picked one up to replace my first clownfish.
 
Coral

Coral

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While I was at the LFS I couldn't resist this torch hammer! it is so cool.
Due to my bank account I wont be buying anything new for my tank soon.
 
Week five notes

Week five notes

Things have been going pretty smooth. I am almost scared that things are going too smooth haha. I finally love being able to go to the LFS and actually getting new stuff. As much as I want to buy new coral, I need to make some equipment upgrades to my tank. Currently I want to get the spinstream heads for my return pump. I am going to get the upgraded caddy's for the my tank for filtration. I also got a protein skimmer from my uncle that needs a new motor so I need to purchase that as well. Hopefully things continue to run smooth. Please keep up with questions and comments! thanks guys!
 
Coral

Coral

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Today my torch hammer opened up the most I have seen it open. This is a great picture of it fully open and also featuring my cleaner shrimp.
 
2nd fish death

2nd fish death

Well I was driving to Cleveland today with my father for Father's Day and my mom called me and my 2nd clown fish died. I look at it before I left and it was fine and 45 minutes later it was dead. I can only say so much because I'm wasn't there but my sister said there the fish was really pale and losing color. I'll post some pictures but I'm really confused on what happened. This has been really discouraging with two fish dying in a matter of one week. Please post your thoughts... trying to figure out what made him die.
 
help me out

help me out

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Like I said earlier I had my 2nd fish death. My clownfish was acting lethargic and swimming very weirdly. along with this behavior he has color lose. As quick as it started it ended. Anyone know what might have happened? I went to Petco and got the full test. Everything checked out on spot.
 
Do you have the lid to the tank? It's odd that they are jumping out like that.. If parameters are checking out the only thing I can think is salinity spike.
 
Ken

Ken

ken1977 said:
Do you have the lid to the tank? It's odd that they are jumping out like that.. If parameters are checking out the only thing I can think is salinity spike.
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Yes I have the lid that comes with the tank! The first one jumped out the second one died in the tank. with all my parameters checking out to be good do you think this could be a case of brook?
 
Ken

Ken

ken1977 said:
Do you have the lid to the tank? It's odd that they are jumping out like that.. If parameters are checking out the only thing I can think is salinity spike.
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I had them check salinity, it was at 1.024 that's where its been for the past like 3 weeks
 
Man... I don't know could just be luck of the draw or one of your shrimp could be scarring the heck out of them to the point of death, it's like the Conjouring in there?
 
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