pickin your brain

[botie]

well my tank is finally lookin good water is crystel clear all my coral r lookin real good but im loosin a fish a day they dont show any signs of sickness they r eatin good all the pers r good mag and cal r alittle low can anybody give me any info on what they think it could be (and myy coco worm has not opened in 3 days)

[aquaboy]

I have no idea, wish i did

[Marty]

Originally Posted by botie

well my tank is finally lookin good water is crystel clear all my coral r lookin real good but im loosin a fish a day they dont show any signs of sickness they r eatin good all the pers r good mag and cal r alittle low can anybody give me any info on what they think it could be (and myy coco worm has not opened in 3 days)

When you say losing a fish a day, are they disappearing or are you finding a carcass?

What are your all your params?

[botie]

i found all of them but my clownfish today my params r amm 0 ppm ph 8.2 nitrate 0 ppm nitrite 0 ppm mag 1200 cal 340 alk 9

[Marty]

Originally Posted by botie

i found all of them but my clownfish today my params r amm 0 ppm ph 8.2 nitrate 0 ppm nitrite 0 ppm mag 1200 cal 340 alk 9

Alkalinity seems high. Typically about 5 is good. I'm not sure if 9 is bad, maybe a more experienced reefer can help you with that. What's your SG?

[botie]

1.025 i was told on here marty to keep alk between 8 and 13 could be bad advise ifanybody knows i would appr. it

[omard]

Originally Posted by Marty

Alkalinity seems high. Typically about 5 is good. I'm not sure if 9 is bad, maybe a more experienced reefer can help you with that. What's your SG?

My thought also...or temp...how are you testing for???

Whatever dude, you need to do some serious water exchanges quick. Use proven RO/DI water. Or anything then what you are using now, if you don't have access to.

If you don't have a refractomer, get one..

Take water sample down to LFS and have them test out for you.

Something wildly haywire somewhere...Fish just don't die like this with water params you are reporting

Keep us posted please.

Best of luck,


Scott

(sorry about losses! )

[botie]

i have a refractomer i use ro water the same i have been for the last 3 months temp is 78 its stays within 1 or 2 degrees all day long so omard you r sayin my alk is too high

[botie]

i did a 15% water change 6 days ago then another 20% 3 days ago

[botie]

i used that chemcleam red slime remover 34 days ago i whent bye what it said the cyno bact is all gone corals look great so i dont think i did it wrong