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Old 03-17-2008, 10:10 PM
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I'm sorry but you had a Lion and a trigger in a 10G then added an eel to the same 10G? For 3 Months?

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Old 03-17-2008, 10:18 PM
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I'm sorry but you had a Lion and a trigger in a 10G then added an eel to the same 10G? For 3 Months?

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Well, they had lots of rock to swim around


sorry, I think the root of the problem is tank size. Even if something was funny in the water, having only 10g of water, minus any space the rock took up, really didn't give any buffer for errors.
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Old 03-17-2008, 10:41 PM
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and to add to the above: you want to try sea horses of all things? i do hope this is a joke post.
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How much of a wc did you do?
what kind of macro did you add?
1.027 is alittle high and if you didn't top off water after 2 days it would probally run 1.030. It could be a number of different variations..... maybe the trigger and eel swam into the scorpion, maybe the macro turned asexual, maybe the salinity spiked without listing parameters who knows,
maybe they weren't happy in a small tank and with a tank that size things can go wrong fast!!

Hydrometers are not the most reliable and can go out of calibration fast so if it was at 1.027 maybe it was at 1.032 who knows...
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Try using a larger quarantine tank for that many fish. Use a refractometer for more precise results on SG.
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10g is way too small for those fish. Did you have any additional filtration besides the rock? I'm guessing an ammonia spike after you added the eel.
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How much of a wc did you do?

Hydrometers are not the most reliable and can go out of calibration fast so if it was at 1.027 maybe it was at 1.032 who knows...
Times two
1.027 is way to high especially with a hydrometer they are know to run on the low side you might of been at 1.040 for all you know, but you have enough other things wrong as well.
Drop the salinity down to 1.020 that way if you have a bad reading you will still be in range.
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Old 03-18-2008, 05:40 AM
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I got a good Refractometer from ebay for $45 Way more accurate than Hydrometer
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No seriously, you didn't have fish that size in a 10g.
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