 » 3reef Navigation | | | | » Forum Menu | | | | » Aquarium Ads | | | 
And here too!
|  | | 
10-06-2004, 07:51 AM
|
#21 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 39
Posts: 6,371
  
|  Re: help: losing fish, not inverts!
[quote author=ross6200 link=board=ASAP;num=1097024769;start=15#19 date=10/06/04 at 08:56:40]If that's the culprit, I will let you all know. *But would copper also kill my inverts?[/quote]
Yes. Also, just because you can't feel stray voltage, doesn't mean that it's not there. Is the tank grounded? | 
|  | | Reef Links |  | |
10-06-2004, 08:16 AM
|
#22 (permalink)
| | Plankton
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: ,
Posts: 11
Karma: 1
 | Re: help: losing fish, not inverts!
Yes - the tank is grounded. | |
| | |
10-06-2004, 08:36 AM
|
#23 (permalink)
| | Kole Tang
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: SF/Monterey Bay Area, CA
Posts: 1,755
Karma: 104
| Re: help: losing fish, not inverts!
I wouldn't suspect copper is your problem, but something else building up in your water. Your right, o2 shouldn't be a problem with a skimmer on it. Hmmm, I was suspecting your salinity was off, what kind of device are you using to check it with? I just tested my buddies glass against my refractometer, it his was off by .03 on the high side. His was running at 1.028, instead of 1.025.
_________
Gresham
__________________________________...
Feeding the reef... one polyp at a time... | |
| | |
10-06-2004, 08:49 AM
|
#24 (permalink)
| | Plankton
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: ,
Posts: 11
Karma: 1
| Re: help: losing fish, not inverts!
I'm not sure of the brands, but I have the floating kind (thermometer-type) and the plexigalss type that you fill. They both give the same reading.... | |
| | |
10-06-2004, 08:53 AM
|
#25 (permalink)
| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Tampa, FL,Florida
Posts: 330
Karma: 2
| Re: help: losing fish, not inverts!
that part with the voltage is good. I never thaught about that...
How do you ground a tank? I guess I should do that when I set up my new tank tomorrow.
_________
90 gal, 120 lbs sand, 90 pounds live rock (adding), 5 blue-green chromis&&&&10 gal, softies, one Ocellaris Clownfish, one clowngoby, one cbs and lots of rock && | |
| | |
10-06-2004, 09:56 AM
|
#26 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 39
Posts: 6,371
| Re: help: losing fish, not inverts!
[quote author=hoodoo link=board=ASAP;num=1097024769;start=15#24 date=10/06/04 at 11:53:17]that part with the voltage is good. I never thaught about that...
How do you ground a tank? I guess I should do that when I set up my new tank tomorrow.[/quote] http://www.drsfostersmith.com/produc...p=1&N=2004  | |
| | |
10-06-2004, 10:10 AM
|
#27 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Woodbury, MN,Minnesota
Posts: 190
Karma: 9
| Re: help: losing fish, not inverts!
i sort of dont believe that. up here in the land of 10,000 lakes we get some really strong storms that hit the lakes pretty frequintly. a 50 gallon or so tank zapped with 110ac is a pretty close ratio to a 200 acre being zapped with a 100,000 volt bolt of lighting. if that were true every living fish up here would have died 100 years ago.
thats just my opinion into selling more products.
_________
55 gal, standard florescent, 1 power head, 50 lbs live rock, 45 lbs reef sand, 1 yellow striped maroon clownfish, 1 percula clown fish, 7 scarlet hermit crabs, | |
| | |
10-06-2004, 11:07 AM
|
#28 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Melbourne, VIC,Victoria
Posts: 2,261
| Re: help: losing fish, not inverts!
Dano,
Are the lakes salt water?
John
_________
Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it! | |
| | |
10-06-2004, 11:56 AM
|
#29 (permalink)
| | Vlamingii Tang
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 1,887
Karma: 425
 | Re: help: losing fish, not inverts!
Dano I had a fish only tank years ago and I had a beautiful French angle fish that would eat out of my hand. One day I noticed him swimming erratically around the tank, he would bump into the glass and he appeared to be trying to jump out of the tank I couldn't figure out what was wrong and the problem got worse and worse until he died. Well I found out what the problem was!! Salt creped into my light and it was shorting to the salt water in the tank.......... John | |
| | |
10-14-2004, 08:32 AM
|
#30 (permalink)
| | Plankton
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: ,
Posts: 16
Karma: 3
| Re: help: losing fish, not inverts!
Are you testing the ammonia and pH of the water? Please give us all your water parameters. Do you quarantine all new fish in a seperate tank for 3+ weeks before you add them to your display tank? Have you tried using RO water instead of tap water?
You can read about quarantine methodology by followintg this link: http://www.marineaquariumadvice.com/...odology_1.html
HTH,
Terry B | |
| | | Reef Links |  | | |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | |
|
