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06-03-2005, 04:36 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: miami,right near da beach BOYE!, FL,Florida Age: 24
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 |  percs keep dying!!!
hey guys long time no posts, im sorry!!! anyway i started a 20 gallon at my new house. its been since mothers day and i thought it was cycled... (WRONG)!!! anyway, i added a six line wrasse and a perc two weeks into it. the perc died and the sixline is great. i added another percula two days after and 2 days later hes being eated by the inverts. tank mates are coral banded, emerald crab, and 11 hermit. paramaters are all good but the clowns keep dying. Whats the deal? help me please...
thanks guys and girls,
jonathan
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06-04-2005, 03:35 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Altona,Manitoba Age: 29
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| Re: percs keep dying!!!
the fish could have been just to stressed from shipping to handle a newer tank, something similar happened to me i just waited longer and now every thing is good. just my thoughts 
Peter
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180 gal., dual 400 watt mh 14000k 120 watt NO actinics ,amiracle skimmer, ' quiet one' main pump (1000gph), 5 PH's 60gal fuge/sump, 300lb LR 150lb LS. 10 astrea snails, 2 scarlet hermits, yellow tang, 6 line wrasse, gold stiped maroon clown,2 Firefish, Reagal tang, 3 green chromis, 2 yellow tail blue damsels, fighting conch, colt coral, leather coral, watermellon mushroom, brown zoos, Bubble coral, green fuzzy mushroom, Yellow polyp zoos, Orange Ricordia. | |
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06-04-2005, 05:30 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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| Re: percs keep dying!!!
well...after the first one died u should have probably waited longer...percs r very easy to stress out...some people say that if u add or move rocks to ur tank, they can become very stressed out...change in envionrment...the first 2 i got came down with velvet desiese but my new ones r doing great, good luck  _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
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06-05-2005, 04:10 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 39
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| Re: percs keep dying!!!
Did you get the clowns from the same pet store? If you did, were both clowns taken out of the same tank when they were sold to you? | |
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06-06-2005, 08:55 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Illinois Age: 30
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| Re: percs keep dying!!!
Did you acclimate them? I've found that many lfs keep there salinity levels at around 1.018 and for my tank that I keep at 1.024 its a big jump in levels and that can definitely stress fish out.
What salinity level does the lfs you purchased them from keep their tanks at? What is yours?
S
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90 gallon reef, mag 1800 main return pump, 10 gallon refugium + 10 gallon sump, CPR overflows, ASM G-1 skimmer, icecap 660 vho 440 watts. 130#LR and 60#LS. Corals: Finger Leather, Fat Finger Leather, Toadstool, flower pot sps coral, hairy mushrooms. Fish: Yellow tang, Bi-color angel, pecula clowns, royal gramma, coral beauty angel, yellow tail damsel, blue damsel, Sergeant Major Damsel. Misc. hermit crabs, snails, flame scallop, Xenia | |
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06-10-2005, 09:07 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: miami,right near da beach BOYE!, FL,Florida Age: 24
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| Re: percs keep dying!!!
i work at the store that i got them from... same parameters but mine are alittle better (less nitrates mine are 0) | |
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