New and need help please!

I am a newbe and it shows... My roommate and i have had our tank running for 6 weeks now and we loose almost every fish we put in the tank... The tank is the new fluval 155 41 gallon. We have over 40lb of live rock. We started buying fish after week 4 cuz our lfs said the water was great... So far we have lost 3 porkupine puffers 2 flounders, yellow tang, flame angel, stripped puffer... The only things that surivive is a pink spotted gobey and a starfish.

 

sounds like you added way too many fish way too quickly and overloaded the system.
What are your water parameters?

 

Thank you! I thought i was ready cuz the tank has gone threw the cycle... Every thing was back at 0, ph 8.2 temp 76. Started with some of my girlfriends moms rocks with the bugs on it. The real bad thing is i have more fish comming from online tomorrow!

I know i have made a big mistake by doing this!

 

What is everything at right now?

 

Had it tested today and it was all at 0 ph 8.2... So we bought a flounder and a puffer and they already died... we have lost a alot of $ worth of fish so far.

 

you need to stop buying fish, your tank is not completely ready yet, you have to be patient

and i would try a damsel, if that thing dies you know your in bad shape...

 

slow down and perfect the water chem the tank is still young are you testing for sg,cal,alk,phos,dKH,o2 and what kind of skimmer are you using pic would help

 

No, we take the water to the lfs. No skimmer thelfs said it would do nothing for a tank our size... im going to get a pic now