What could it possibly be?

[jaydm93teg]

What could possibly and I mean reach as far as you need to,

All corals are perfect: Zoas, pagoda cup, Torch, frog spawn, plate coral, xenia, mushrooms, more zoas, leather, and 1 hairy SPS i forgot the name of.

All hermits and snails are fine and cleaner shrimp is fine and pom pom crab is fine

water params are all normal and salinity is 1.024


The only fish in the tank is a 6 line wrasse and it looks like he is almost paralyzed, I can catch him with my hand he has no white spots or cloudy spots doesnt look like he has ich or anything like that

 

[smoothie]

Stray voltage or maybe he whacked his head on something?
Fish have been known to do some damage on themselves with glass tops

 

[jaydm93teg]

if it was stray voltage wouldnt I feel it when I stuck my hand in the tank? Also wouldnt it cause my cleaner shrimp to die if its causing fish to look almost paralyzed?

 

[jaydm93teg]

Absolutly kicking myself very very very very hard,
SO i decided lets get some new testing equipment, i test the salinity of the water using one of the plastic hydrometers and sure as heck the needle shot all the way up my salinity was off the freakin charts!!!!! I had been topping off with SALT WATER!!!!! so immediatly this morning i pulled 2 gallons out of the tank and put fresh tap water thats all i had, i waited an hour and did it again and got the salinity down to a true 1.024!!!!! I come home and the 6 line is swimming and eating like he loves the place, I have been holding a tank in a hypersalinity state!!!!! No wonder my fish was looking paralized!!!! I feel like an idiot I have been in this hobby forever and never have I ever done something that bad!

Anyway now I am wondering why the hypersalinity caused the fish to "paralyze" and it didnt have any effect on my corals and my cleaner shrimp??

anyone know that answher?

 

[coolsurf]

I'm glad you found the problem. I always label my jugs with and orange dot signifying SW and the ones w/o are my top off's. The bottom line is you found it and was able to fix it...glad everything turned out well for you.

 

[smallblock]

Time for a refractometer aye?

 

[jaydm93teg]

coolsurf;491100 wrote: I'm glad you found the problem. I always label my jugs with and orange dot signifying SW and the ones w/o are my top off's. The bottom line is you found it and was able to fix it...glad everything turned out well for you.

Yeah it was killing me cause i honestly could not figure out what was going on, I have been in the hobby forever and have never lost fish like I have lately and i went round and round on what it could be new test kits different LFS testing the water but never had anyone else test my salinity then today I picked up a new hydrometer dont really know why I did but I did and i knew as soon as I took the reading what I had been doing was topping off with salt water and not Fresh RO water.........dumb dumb expensive mistake I am just glad the coral survived!!!

 

[jaydm93teg]

Smallblock;491103 wrote: Time for a refractometer aye?

Yea to say the least!!!

but still does anyone know why none of my coral were showing signs of the hypersalinity??

 

[smallblock]

I think stuff doesn ok at higher salinity I think its the low salinity that is more dangerous, I dunno I'm no pro

 

[fish scales2]

Higher salinity=higher element levels. ie.calcium, mag, stronium etc.

corals were saying Fish were saying:yuk:You are lucky, if it gets TOO high then then corals would be:yuk:All the while you are saying:doh:

Glad you found the beast that has been haunting you.

Chris

 

[jaydm93teg]

yeah thank you i mean honestly this whole time night and day i look at the empty tank corals look great fish not so great....

ahhhhh feels good to solve a problem nice way to start the weekend!!!!

 

[jaydm93teg]

Thanks to everyone for all of the help over the past 2 weeks with my numerous what is wrong with my tank threads!!!

I appreciate all of the help from everyone!!

 

[weaglereefer]

FYI, you can make your own calibration solution for the hydrometer. I'll have to look up the recipe again, have it bookmarked at home, but something like "fill a 2L coke bottle to the brim with RO/DI then use one level teaspoon". Comes out to 35ppt. You can rinse out the hydrometer in warm fresh water, add this so it overflows, then see where the arm hangs. Mark it with a sharpie and you can tell RELATIVELY where your S.G. sits.

Glad you got it worked out.