HELP ME! No one seems to know what is killing my fish!

he is talking about taring down his tank and scrubbing it and then refilling it. I think it is not nessasary to do this. If the white stuff is ammonia scaling then all he needs to do is siphon the scale as he scrapes it off the wall. ammonia scape will draw in ammonia as it is prodused and release it slowly you can do all the water changes you want and it will not do much to corect the problem phisical removel of the scale is best option. But lets see what the tests come back as. A CA scale will also absorb ammonia and release it in to the tank.

by the way a massive water change can shock the fish faster than finding the cure of the problem and resulving it. He is running carbon and a protien skimmer. treat 1 thing at a time and you can help to do that by doing smaller water changes, and he has moved his fish from the problem tank which also gives him more time and yes he can now do a larger water change.after he does a good cleaning of the tank glass and sand bed vacume the sand bed realy well. Now is the time to do it while the fish are out of the tank.
Bill

[Salty_Hobby]

Sounds like we're mostly all on the same page, I think I have a game plan for now

Thanks everyone!
Erika

[Funky_Fish14]

Originally Posted by bvlester

by the way a massive water change can shock the fish faster than finding the cure of the problem and resulving it.

Nobody said do one right now... and 50% is not massive. I know many people that do this on their tanks without issue, one who STILL does it regularly on two tanks after 5 years.

And you are missing the fact that the ammonia was terribly high. I dont care how much stress the fish gets from a 50% water change... constantly high ammonia WILL kill fish.



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Keep working at it Salty Hobby!

Cheers,

Chris

[Salty_Hobby]

New update!

My fish are in my 10gallon reserve tank for now and doing well, they all look much healthier and energetic, evern the anemone is coming back!! The only thing that hasn't shown improvement are the polyps.

I think I am going to down size and keep the ten gallon instead. At least then I will have enough live rock for the volume and a skimmer that's is way more than enough to keep it clean!

Two things: I will definitely need a home for the Tang if I'm keeping the 10 Gallon instead. Second, I may have a 47 Gallon for sale soon, I will post both accordingly unless someone here mentions they're interested! I will make sure the large tank is clean prior to selling of course. Whoever wants the Tang will have to isolate it to be sure this doesn't happen to them!

Thanks all!

Erika

YOu may want to use the 47g and still sell the tank as they should be in a min 100g tank but one can get away with a 90g tank, Nems put out alot of waist so you may want the 47g any way. did you get the 47g from a store or used? Just wondering because if it was used the problem could be with the tank its self and you may want to resilicone the tank and use it. I only say this because you say every thing is starting to bounce back quickly. So there maybe something leaching out of the silicone in the 47g, I would only suspect this if the tank was a used tank. I find that some fish are way more suseptible to water changes than others. Your polups should come back but may take a bit longer. they could be the problem did you give everi thing dips before putting them into the temp tank?
Bill