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12-11-2005, 06:23 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
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What should I do to my tank instead of buying more fish? | 
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12-11-2005, 07:44 PM
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#12 (permalink)
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Figure you what is killing your past fish and correct it. Would be the first step.
Get Test kits and ensure your Ammonia, Nitrite levels are 0
Perform water changes to remove any possible problem that is not typically tested for, run Carbon to remove anything else.
Add a larger clean up crew the deal with waste.
Then after a couple of weeks add a fish
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12-11-2005, 09:03 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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I would check for copper also. Where did the dry rock come from? _________  I Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date Started 9/04 58 gallon Oceanic Tank, 20 gal DIY sump/fuge w/ Kent Marine Auto top-off, Air Water Ice RO/DI, 10,000 K 175 W MH, 2 VHO 03's 96W each, AquaC EV 120 Skimmer
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12-11-2005, 09:40 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Davenport IA
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"Could it be this snail that my lfs said was alive but was really dead? I put him in my tank and he didn't move at all. Or my friend gave me this other snail that always fell over and couldn't get back up, he was still alive though?"
Snail don't like ammonia either. They will wonder around "drunk" as the ammonia kills them.
Just slow down, buy more live rock, and a nice skimmer. | |
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12-12-2005, 06:48 AM
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| | Fire Worm
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Originally Posted by redviper748 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I am having a problem with all my fish dieing. I have a 75 gallon tank that has been running for 2 1/2 months. I put bio spira in it and live sand.
I bought 4 damsels but 2 of them died in the tank, but the other 2 lived for a while, so I kept having my water tested and the place kept saying it was getting better. I took it there a week later and they said it was perfect and I could get a fish. So I bought a yellow tang, and left him in there for a a week and a 1/2. He did fine for a 2 weeks so I put in a blue tang. They both were in there for a week.
THen, the blue tang died over night. THe next day I went and got my water tested and it was fine. My lfs couldn't tell me what the problem was. The next day my yellow tang died and I got my water tested and they said that it was fine.
I waited a week then went a bought a scorpus tang that was on sale. The was fine for 4 days then all of a sudden this morning he was laying on the bottom and isn't able to swim right. He can swim but his back end falls down below his front. and if he stops swimming he just drops right away.
All of my fish die at night. Can anybody PLEASE HELP ME??? | The tests that you will need are for ammonia, pH, nitrite, and nitrate. Hopefully you have more than just that one LFS because it sounds like all he is interested in is selling stuff and not trying to educate you while you are asking about livestock.
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12-12-2005, 07:15 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 39
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Originally Posted by Jason McKenzie Perform water changes to remove any possible problem that is not typically tested for, run Carbon to remove anything else.
Add a larger clean up crew the deal with waste. | I don't know that I'd recommend more water changes? If water changes have been performed regularly on a new tank, it's probable that the initial cycle was stalled and that the tank still needs to complete its full cycle which will not happen if more water changes are done at this time. | |
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12-12-2005, 07:31 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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What kind of water are you using... RO/DI or tap water?
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20Gal, 45 lbs LR, 65W PC 10 000K + 65W PC 20 000K + 10Gal sump/fuge
Livestock :hermit and snails, Green star polyps, Button polyps, Finger leather, Xenia, Zoanthids, Mushrooms, Yellow polyps, montipora digitata, acropora, ?mistery polyps?, mistery crab, six line wrasse | |
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12-12-2005, 10:23 AM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Nov 2005
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The dryed rock came from my lfs.
I just use tap water that I had tested and they said that all of our systems in my house is taking out all the metals and sudiments out of the water.
What should I consist in my clean up crew?
I just changed 15 gallons of water yeterday and my ammonia really didn't go down. What is that? | |
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12-12-2005, 12:17 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
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.5 Ammonia? My test kit schematic shows it to be still extremely toxic to fish.
I recommend you add NitroMax to the tank, it has worked wonderfully to get the tank jump started. I would also get a mechanical filter like a wet/dry system with a skimmer if you're thinking of FOWLR. Or, you can make that sump into a better filter than that penguin.
Listen to BirdLady. 
Also, BirdLady was right about the decayed rock, your introducing nothing but waste from those rocks. Take them out and brush the dead bacteria and corraline with Kent's coral dip or the other one I can't remember, it comes with a brush head to brush off the bacteria. The decay may shoot up nitrates??
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Tiger tail cuke, asst. snails/hermits, asst. feathers, rainbow acan,zoos,shrooms,bubble,galaxea, asst. shrimp, 2 ocellaris,mandarin,zebrasoma xanthurum,pink-spot watchman,red-striped pistol. | |
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12-12-2005, 01:33 PM
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#20 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
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Should I am some more to my clean up crew? what could I put in my sump to help lower the ammonia and everything else? | |
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