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03-13-2008, 02:03 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Minot, AFB Age: 25
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Karma: 70
 |  Floating Fish
Well it finally happened....Came home from work to find my 5inch Diamond Goby floating belly up in the corner of my tank.  I'm not sure what went wrong either. My guess is that I just stressed it to death.  I placed in two new powerheads, and installed my new lights. He was gilling pretty heavily last night and didn't even eat. But o'well now I get to decide on a replacement. _________  55 gal All-glass
760w MH
Remora Pro HOB skimmer
Rena 55 Smart Filter & Heater Combo 3 Zebra Dart Fish, 3 Yellow-Blue Damsels
3 Skunk shrimp, 1 Blue Neon Goby
1 Sailfin
50 lbs Live Rock
2 Frogspawn
1 Colt Coral
1 Pulsing Xenia Colony
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03-13-2008, 02:04 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
Posts: 1,178
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Sorry for your loss, man.... _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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03-13-2008, 02:07 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Seattle area Age: 36
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Sorry to hear about that. Karma to you my friend.
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Marty
72g Bow Front, 2x250w MH (10 hrs), 4x65 Act (14 hrs), 6xDual Moonlights (10 hrs), 300 gph from cannister filter and powerhead, Prizm hang-on protein skimmer, 50 lbs LR, CC Bed
Yellow Tang, 2 Clowns, Bubble Tip Anemone, 2 Yellow Tail, Humbug, White Spot, Ornate Goby, Emerald Crab, Sally Lightfoot Crab, 2 Blue Legged Hermits, 15 Scarlet Hermits, +Snails with no names (margaritas, turbos, astraeas) | |
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03-13-2008, 02:37 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Check out all other possible problems also before adding another to tank...temp, water params, O2, etc.
Get another fish for sure. Might be worth being safe and do a large water change before putting into tank...
Fish take time to get used to new lights. Only run for short periods initially.
Sorry about loss. _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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03-13-2008, 05:27 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk Age: 21
Posts: 399
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Yeah, stress coulda got him but check for other possibilities that might claim some of the other fish too later down the road. He might have been the least tolerant to something that is goin wrong.
Evan.
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40g with 10g sump with ~85 lbs liverock, 1.5" deep livesand bed.
Fish - halloween hermits, blue leg hermits, left-handed hermits, emerald crabs, assorted snails, chocolate chip star, 4x strawberry conches, tuxedo urchin x2, electric flame scallop, gold stripe maroon clown, blue-side wrasse, yellow tang, yellow watchman goby, white seabae anemone.
Coral - One lonely Kenya Tree. | |
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03-13-2008, 05:34 PM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 24
Posts: 1,040
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This possibility seems like a broken record but... stray voltage??? _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, 1 Mandarin Goby, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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03-13-2008, 08:08 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Minot, AFB Age: 25
Posts: 60
Karma: 70
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Thanks for all the info, I did immediately check my water parms and all was good and I still did a water change just to be sure. All of the other fish, inverts, and new corals are doing great. How do you check for stray voltage, I don't expect that to be a problem with my two new Koralia PH's but I guess there's a chance. | |
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03-13-2008, 08:44 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 968
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Not with your finger please! Voltage meter or something similar, easy way to fix or prevent I should say is a ground probe like this one _________ I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one.
Every morning is the dawn of a new error.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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03-14-2008, 07:33 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 39
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Sorry to hear about your fish  What were you feeding it when it was alive? I have found that most if not all of the sandsifting gobies tend to starve to death if not fed meaty foods like mysis and blackworms so if it was only eating flakes, it could be that's what did it in. | |
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03-14-2008, 08:43 AM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Detroit, Michigan
Posts: 428
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karma for your loss, and yes dont check stray voltage with a finger, it hurts a lot.....
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120g, 3 niger triggers, 2 tomato's, 2 puffers, 2 anglers,
eel, lrg black lion
5g, 4 baby black ociis, haitian, rock and bubble tip anemone, frogspawn, hammers, candycanes, blue ricordia, zenia, leather, plate coral, peppermint shrimp, yellow jawfish, porcelain anemone crab, lrg ass. bristle worms | |
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