Doomed to Crash???

digital-audiophile · #1 03-06-2009, 12:38 AM

Once you have smelled a tank that is dying, you will never forget it.

freddy · #2 03-06-2009, 12:49 AM

5 weeks ago all my fish died one by one,corals looked great,nitrates were a little high but not dangerous,did your fish have any spoy's or anything before they died.

originalozzyo · #3 03-06-2009, 01:42 AM

Mine was caused by a kalkwasser overdose, did a massive water change which stemmed it a bit. But in the end i lost all my nice sps and some smaller fish. I just gave up trying to correct all the water parameters in the tank and restarted in a bigger tank.

Rbacchiega · #4 03-06-2009, 03:28 AM

I don't use Kalk, but I'll keep that in mind if I ever do start using it. I have always used the same salt and when I took a look at the blenny I didn't notice anything out of whack.

Just tested water again and everything read where it should. Hopefully this was just a freak occurence because I was just finally starting to like the way the tank was looking. Obviously I'll be holding off on any fish purchases for a while....hermph

dkcrx · #5 03-06-2009, 06:22 AM

could be something like internal parasites like heart worms or gill flukes, seems to be a problem that will start by killing off the weekest first and continue, or stop all together if your other fish are in good health. I had this happen 6 or 7 years ago and lost a few one day and buy the time I figured it out I lost nearly all my prise fish "near $1000 worth" had to do a little disecting to find out.

Whatigot · #6 03-06-2009, 02:16 PM

were these new fish or fish from an existing system?
how long have you had the tank running for?
how long have those tow fish been in the tank?

Rbacchiega · #7 03-06-2009, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Whatigot

were these new fish or fish from an existing system?
how long have you had the tank running for?
how long have those tow fish been in the tank?

The copperband was from a LFS in Calgary, they had had it for three weeks. The Blenny came from a different LFS in Calgary

This tank has been up and running for around 4 months in the current setup

The copperband was in the tank for just over 2 weeks, the Blenny almost 4