jc061471
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So my powder brown tang which I had for only a little over a week was fine yesterday and all week swimming all about and eating well. Then when I come home from work this morning (I work the graveyard shift) I find him wedged somewhat between a live rock and the sand substrate in my 120g FOWLR tank not moving and devoid of life. All my other fish are doing fine and eating well. As you can see from the pics I attached, there are no signs of ICK. The little white particles you see on him is the sand from my tank.
The only thing I can think of is it's been hot and humid here recently so the temp in my tank has gone as high as 81F but no higher (no chiller). My tank as result has been evaporating water at a higher rate so I've had to do larger than normal top offs (RO DI water). I am experiencing a bit of a diatom problem but it's not too bad. Other than that everything else is normal or close to normal.
I feed only once a day but I feed various types of food; frozen brine shrimp, seaweed wafers, seaweed sheets, marine flake food with garlic, various brands of pellet food.
I drip acclimated for 90 minutes before putting him in the tank.
- 120g FOWLR tank sumpless
- 3 months old
- cycled for 5-1/2 weeks
- REEF OCTOPUS BH-2000 HOB skimmer (130g-200g rating)
- HOB fuge with chaeto macro algae
- AQUAMAXX reactor running 1 cup rowaphos GFO and 1 cup carbon (not mixed but separate water goes thru GFO first and then carbon)
Being I have a fairly large tank my water parameters are pretty stable except when the temp got high like I mentioned earlier. I test using API saltwater master test kit.
pH 8.0 (could be a little higher)
ammonia 0 ppm
nitrites 0 ppm
nitrates somewhere between 20-40 ppm (could be lower I know)
salinity 1.022-1.023
temp 77F-78F
2 blue/green chromis
2 ocellaris clownfish
1 pajama cardinal
1 foxface rabbitfish
1 yellow tang
1 atlantic blue tang
1 powder brown tang :sad2:
The only thing I can think of is it's been hot and humid here recently so the temp in my tank has gone as high as 81F but no higher (no chiller). My tank as result has been evaporating water at a higher rate so I've had to do larger than normal top offs (RO DI water). I am experiencing a bit of a diatom problem but it's not too bad. Other than that everything else is normal or close to normal.
I feed only once a day but I feed various types of food; frozen brine shrimp, seaweed wafers, seaweed sheets, marine flake food with garlic, various brands of pellet food.
I drip acclimated for 90 minutes before putting him in the tank.
- 120g FOWLR tank sumpless
- 3 months old
- cycled for 5-1/2 weeks
- REEF OCTOPUS BH-2000 HOB skimmer (130g-200g rating)
- HOB fuge with chaeto macro algae
- AQUAMAXX reactor running 1 cup rowaphos GFO and 1 cup carbon (not mixed but separate water goes thru GFO first and then carbon)
Being I have a fairly large tank my water parameters are pretty stable except when the temp got high like I mentioned earlier. I test using API saltwater master test kit.
pH 8.0 (could be a little higher)
ammonia 0 ppm
nitrites 0 ppm
nitrates somewhere between 20-40 ppm (could be lower I know)
salinity 1.022-1.023
temp 77F-78F
2 blue/green chromis
2 ocellaris clownfish
1 pajama cardinal
1 foxface rabbitfish
1 yellow tang
1 atlantic blue tang
1 powder brown tang :sad2: