Cephas27
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Hi everyone,
I am new to this hobby so please bear with a small prelude to the story.. I got this ~70gallon rimless tank from a friend who was relocating to another place.. i used 60% of the water that he had in his tank and added the rest.. however, he suggested that tapwater would do just fine (i know this was foolish).. after a week or two since the tank was already cycled i added 3 fishes a small powder blue tang and two lyretails (the tank already had a tomato clown, percula, strawberry dottyback and a chromise).. they were all doing fine for a week or two.. ocassionally i would see my tomato bullying the other fishes especially furing feeding time, the powder was able to hold his ground well by the lyretail were either hiding or at one corner mostly.. Then one fine day i fine the percula dead at the bottom of the tank, and within two days i lost the powder blue, one lyretail, chromis and the dottyback.. i though it was due to the tomato clown so i caught him in a small floating seclusion box in the tank itself.. i asked another friend and he suggested that it was due to the chlorine in the water and suggested a water change with 60% RO water which i did... All the parameters were showing fine during this time... Now the questions are:
1) After changing the water the skimmer collection cup has a pink water kind of substance, dont know what this is and why?
2) the tank has 8 corals which seem to be absolutely fine.. so could it be because of some other reason than chlorine
3) right now the tank has only the tomato and one lyretail.. i'd like to add more fishes, is it a good time?
4) Which fishes should i ideally go for?
i know its a very long post but any help will be greatly appreciated..!!!
I am new to this hobby so please bear with a small prelude to the story.. I got this ~70gallon rimless tank from a friend who was relocating to another place.. i used 60% of the water that he had in his tank and added the rest.. however, he suggested that tapwater would do just fine (i know this was foolish).. after a week or two since the tank was already cycled i added 3 fishes a small powder blue tang and two lyretails (the tank already had a tomato clown, percula, strawberry dottyback and a chromise).. they were all doing fine for a week or two.. ocassionally i would see my tomato bullying the other fishes especially furing feeding time, the powder was able to hold his ground well by the lyretail were either hiding or at one corner mostly.. Then one fine day i fine the percula dead at the bottom of the tank, and within two days i lost the powder blue, one lyretail, chromis and the dottyback.. i though it was due to the tomato clown so i caught him in a small floating seclusion box in the tank itself.. i asked another friend and he suggested that it was due to the chlorine in the water and suggested a water change with 60% RO water which i did... All the parameters were showing fine during this time... Now the questions are:
1) After changing the water the skimmer collection cup has a pink water kind of substance, dont know what this is and why?
2) the tank has 8 corals which seem to be absolutely fine.. so could it be because of some other reason than chlorine
3) right now the tank has only the tomato and one lyretail.. i'd like to add more fishes, is it a good time?
4) Which fishes should i ideally go for?
i know its a very long post but any help will be greatly appreciated..!!!
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