i need help now

[draco]

well one died. and they were trying to jump out of the tank. they are doing better in the bucket now. there gills were pushed out before they have relaxed now and are swimming not convulsing, but i cant leave them in the bucket. my corals are not so good i have a frog spawn that is just pulled in really far and my leather is leaning and my kenya is to. also my shrimp are alive and look fine(kinda wierd), and i haev feather duusters which dropped their plumes a few days ago, but now the worms are crawling out but when i touch them they go back in. and i found many dead bristle worms in my tank.

[Der_Iron_Chef]

That's tough. What water are you using? My immediate thought was that you were doing lots of water changes, and THEN things started to die.

If it were me, I'd do some large water changes (with RO/DI water) and run some carbon in the canister filter or something. Take any foam pads or filters out and just run carbon.

How's the temperature?

Don't know what else to say, man. I'm certainly not an expert...maybe someone else can chime in here.

[draco]

that i can do, but what should i do with my fish until i can get my water going good. i just noticed that they now have ich i think. i know what it lookes like in fresh water i dont know about saltwater, but it is tiny white dots. should i set up a smaller tank with just my fish and surviving coral? or risk putting them back? i do not want to do anything to hurt them. should i change all my water?(i know that is not usually good although i was told can be done)

[Ruth]

Need more information. What are all of your levels at:
Ammonia
Nitrite
Nitrate
Calcium
Alk/DKH
Magnesium

What size is your system and what did you have in there? What filtration?
Out of curiousity what salt are you using?

[draco]

my ammonia and nitrite were fine, my nitrate was on the high side a few days ago, and has been dropping, my alkalinily is in the normal range and my ph was 8.2. i have a 55 gall with a prisim protien skimmer, a fluval 304, 2 seio powerheads, power compact lighting, and i have 62lbs of live rock, i took it slow adding things, i listened to everythiing everyone told me. i have 2 fire fish, 2 clown fish, 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 fire shrimp, zoos, leather coral, kenya coral, frog spawn, and hammer all my coral is just tiny frags no bigger than a fist, lots of hermits and i had a royal gramma just got her about 3 weeks ago.

[MikeP]

If you can set up a hospital tank then do it. If your fish are showing signs of ich then you can treat them with medication on their own in the hospital tank. I would leave your main tank as it is and keep monitoring it. What level is the salinity at?

[draco]

i keep my salinity at 0.023. oh and i figured out what the wite dots where this is stupid of me, but i ws in such a rush to get my fish out of the tank that i didnt fully mix my salt and it rested on some of the fish they are fine that way now, but they still have no home

[draco]

there were alot of briste worms all over just hanging out of the rocks i have never actually seen one in my tank until now. i havnt lost any of my pets(animals i have purchased) recently, but i dont really know what might have been living in there. so you think that i sould do a big water change then add my fish back in. and run only carbon in my filter. ohhh i have been using something in my filter called greenX, do you think that this may have done something to my tank? i dont know what happens when it has expired or it is does.

[niloc16]

take out the filter floss from the fluval, only run carbon. i'm guessing you did too many water changes and the new saltwater did not have time to fully dissolve, did you test the parameters of each new batch of saltwater you made? rapid changes in water parameters reak havoc on the system. stable conditions is more important than achieving an ideal number. do a full test of all parameters on your tank and post on here what you get. let the tank sit for a couple days and settle out. its one thing to do a 50% change in a day but if you were doing a change every day than more than likely thats what has happened. acclimate your fish that is in the bucket to your tank for about 45 minutes and then put them back in. hope this helps. the more info you give us on your water parameters the more we can help. if you have added nothing in months and only thing that has changed is the multiple water changes then that has to be it

[Ruth]

You do need to tell us what your test #'s are - not just fine or high but the actual # from the test.
I agree you may have tried to do too much too fast (as in water changes). Before you put your fish back in the tank please post your test #'s and we can give you a little bit more help.