I am in dire need of major help here guys... This could be long and drawn out, please bare with me...
29g, 2 aquaclear 50 hob filters (200 gph each), 1 air stone, 1 150 watt heater, FOWLS
29 g that was a cycled high brackish (.015) housing 2 very small figure 8 puffers, 2 very small green spot puffers. The tank had a black sand bed which 1 month ago I added live aggrogite. This made the bed 2 1/2- 3 inches deep... I began slowly (over a couple of weeks) increasing salinity (.002 per 3 days). I found a small valentini puffer (for only $8!) and added him to the mix...
I lost a figure 8, got weak, pulled to intake, (in middle of the night) and had ripped open, was there for up to 8 hours. When I woke and found it I pulled it and did a 50% wc. Later that day I lost the other figure 8. (This is now a week and a half ago) I then set up an emergency hospital with a 10g I had just gotten home. I set it to the same salinity and temp (.021, 82) and bagged up my 3 remaining fish. I floated these guys for 1 hour and set them free... This tank I placed 1 of my aquaclear 50's on which had been cycled on 29 g prior to this eppisode (lightly rinsed off left over food but not enough to destroy the good stuff).
I had test done on 29g: amonia= 3.0, nitrite= 3.3, nitrate= 135, ph= 8.1
I then did a 75% wc and had retested: amonia= 2.8, nitrite= 3.0, nitrate= 133, ph= 8.1
Another round at 75%: am= 2.0, nit= 3.0, nit= 130, ph= 8.0
I this time stir all the bed, turning it over looking closely for anything left behind... Nothing. Break down the last filter, rinse it thuroghly... 95% wc: am=2.0, nit= 3.3, nit= 130, ph=7.9
Test water being used for wc: am= 0.0, nit= 0.0, nit= 0, ph= 8.1
All this and maintaning sg of .021
During testing of main tank I loose 1 gsp. Notice that other has cloudy poped eye which i assumed to be popeye. Valentini still looking beautiful (owned for 3 day at this point) although realise i have yet to see it eat, thinking it is nocturnal and is still shy and now probobly stressed, I go on. I purchase myracine 2 and begin treating hospital.
Being that this tank was not properly cycled (did not have choice) and my other tank is going nuts on me, I am wc every other day at 50%, and vacuming food every feeding.
The gsp was looking better for a few days till 2 days ago, (except for having stopped eatting himself for this duration of just under a week), he began bumping into everything, bitting everything in his face (glass, fingers, airline... not fish or food) and getting stuck to intake. Sadly he died last night... I was unfortunate enough to watch but was able to pull him as soon as it happend.
Now, the few remaining problems... The valentini since today has been very dark, swiming around less, not even paying any mind to my being in the room (which he had begun a few days ago). Do I have any hope for him?
My 29 is now in process of a new fishless cycle, which will be a while befor anyone can live there again.
What happend in this tank??? Why would peremiters go off the wall so bad like that?? No food decaying, nothing dead in sand (unless it was the sand), which leads to... Was my bed a factor in this?
I am down to 1 last fish and don't wanna go out like this... If you have any ideas,please help.
29g, 2 aquaclear 50 hob filters (200 gph each), 1 air stone, 1 150 watt heater, FOWLS
29 g that was a cycled high brackish (.015) housing 2 very small figure 8 puffers, 2 very small green spot puffers. The tank had a black sand bed which 1 month ago I added live aggrogite. This made the bed 2 1/2- 3 inches deep... I began slowly (over a couple of weeks) increasing salinity (.002 per 3 days). I found a small valentini puffer (for only $8!) and added him to the mix...
I lost a figure 8, got weak, pulled to intake, (in middle of the night) and had ripped open, was there for up to 8 hours. When I woke and found it I pulled it and did a 50% wc. Later that day I lost the other figure 8. (This is now a week and a half ago) I then set up an emergency hospital with a 10g I had just gotten home. I set it to the same salinity and temp (.021, 82) and bagged up my 3 remaining fish. I floated these guys for 1 hour and set them free... This tank I placed 1 of my aquaclear 50's on which had been cycled on 29 g prior to this eppisode (lightly rinsed off left over food but not enough to destroy the good stuff).
I had test done on 29g: amonia= 3.0, nitrite= 3.3, nitrate= 135, ph= 8.1
I then did a 75% wc and had retested: amonia= 2.8, nitrite= 3.0, nitrate= 133, ph= 8.1
Another round at 75%: am= 2.0, nit= 3.0, nit= 130, ph= 8.0
I this time stir all the bed, turning it over looking closely for anything left behind... Nothing. Break down the last filter, rinse it thuroghly... 95% wc: am=2.0, nit= 3.3, nit= 130, ph=7.9
Test water being used for wc: am= 0.0, nit= 0.0, nit= 0, ph= 8.1
All this and maintaning sg of .021
During testing of main tank I loose 1 gsp. Notice that other has cloudy poped eye which i assumed to be popeye. Valentini still looking beautiful (owned for 3 day at this point) although realise i have yet to see it eat, thinking it is nocturnal and is still shy and now probobly stressed, I go on. I purchase myracine 2 and begin treating hospital.
Being that this tank was not properly cycled (did not have choice) and my other tank is going nuts on me, I am wc every other day at 50%, and vacuming food every feeding.
The gsp was looking better for a few days till 2 days ago, (except for having stopped eatting himself for this duration of just under a week), he began bumping into everything, bitting everything in his face (glass, fingers, airline... not fish or food) and getting stuck to intake. Sadly he died last night... I was unfortunate enough to watch but was able to pull him as soon as it happend.
Now, the few remaining problems... The valentini since today has been very dark, swiming around less, not even paying any mind to my being in the room (which he had begun a few days ago). Do I have any hope for him?
My 29 is now in process of a new fishless cycle, which will be a while befor anyone can live there again.
What happend in this tank??? Why would peremiters go off the wall so bad like that?? No food decaying, nothing dead in sand (unless it was the sand), which leads to... Was my bed a factor in this?
I am down to 1 last fish and don't wanna go out like this... If you have any ideas,please help.
