Help!!!! All my fish are dying!!!
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The ph in my backup tank is higher than in my tank by 5 points. I've been adding it very slowly. what's a safe rate to increase the ph? It's the only water I have too, so it's going to have to do for my water change unless I should just stop now. I've increased it by a half a point in the past 15 mins. I also noticed that my nitrate level was higher than usual, so I added some turbo start. I just want to make sure i'm doing the right thing. so please give feedback. Thanks.
The tank is doing better this morning. I only had one fish die overnight, but that was the one that was havung a hard time breathing. The other fish were swiming around and the ate some this morning so I think the crisis is overted. I checked the ph level and it came up a point so it's now at 79. I'm going to add some more water today.
On a side note, I didn't know that fish stores could sell uncured rock. I know it's bad for a tank, that seems almost bad practice. If it is uncured. I'll e-mail the store and ask though just to be on the safe side.
On a side note, I didn't know that fish stores could sell uncured rock. I know it's bad for a tank, that seems almost bad practice. If it is uncured. I'll e-mail the store and ask though just to be on the safe side.
Agreed with dawg... 2 months and that many fish in a 55, then adding LR on top of that.. Really didn't stand a chance.. Don't be to quick to dump chemicals in the tank.. Just take it slow and buy a few SW books and give them a read while the tank stablelizes
I sent an e-mail out to the store I bought all of our LR from, it was cured. And we did read some books and have some at home. The problem was that when we switched we had been into freshwater for a few years and since everyone said they were just alike we treated it at first like it was just alike. In the freshwater it didn't really make too much of a difference if you added a fish every few days just as long as you monitored your levels. Obviously it's not the same and we'll know better next time. You can't always learn from reading, sometimes you have to learn from mistakes too. But thanks for all the help. Like i said it's doing much better. we'll take it much slower from this point out.
Its always a learing experiance... Sucks that the curve is a harsh one..
Smelling works sometimes... I can pull rock out of my tank and it has a strong ocean smell..
most stores will tell you its cured.. If I buy rock and its in transit more then 4 hours I will go the extra step and cure it.. I have about 400lbs of LR, so I have cured lots of it... More than likely the super high bio-load has some if not all blame for the recent incident..
most stores will tell you its cured.. If I buy rock and its in transit more then 4 hours I will go the extra step and cure it.. I have about 400lbs of LR, so I have cured lots of it... More than likely the super high bio-load has some if not all blame for the recent incident..
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When I buy live rock, Ive always bought it from the Avarium, and I asked for one of their Styrofoam "coolers" that they get with their livestock shipment. You can just bring your own. They cover it with newspaper and put a couple of gallons of water in it for the trip home for me. I've never had any issue.
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Where did the water for the water change come from? I would think that the amonia spike from the newly added live rock would show on one of the test that you have had done.
yea. We pulled through. It turns out my hydrometer was broken. our water was at 1.027 and was reading at like 1.021 so we didn't think anything of the salt. We took 5 sample to get them read at different stores and they all came back at 1.026-1.027. We got a new hydrometer and fixed the salt content. But it seemed to fit with the reason our fish were dying and our corals thriving. A few days later everyone is doing great. But thanks for asking.
Dunno is .027 would kill fish.. My tanks stays between .025 and .028, the only fish I have lost was split open by a tang..
Dunno if .027 would kill fish.. My tanks stays between .025 and .028, the only fish I have lost was split open by a tang..
hmm? that high? well, maybe it's not what killed them then. I don't know. But before hand it was at 1.023 and then spiked within a week. All the levels came back normal. so we just figured it was either stress related from moving all the rocks or the salt spike. But what ever the cause at least we still have fish and they are doing much better so we did something good in the end 
It sucks we had to loose some though. We felt pretty bad about it.
It sucks we had to loose some though. We felt pretty bad about it.
Ehh, it happens, no one here is batting 1000 with livestock over the entire course of the hobby,
Yeah I was told when I 1st started to keep a reef around .025/.026, so it floats around that or a smidge higher.. Honestly there is no telling why, oh well... Do like I do, chalk it up to learning..
Yeah I was told when I 1st started to keep a reef around .025/.026, so it floats around that or a smidge higher.. Honestly there is no telling why, oh well... Do like I do, chalk it up to learning..
If you have another problem, you may want to drop in an airstone, too. It will break up any surface film that could be inhibiting the gas exchange and it will immediately add oxygen back into the water. I have done this (in addition to the mandatory water change whenever you see bad things happening) and it has always helped.
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