Cycling....and a dead fishy....

[daniella3d]

wow, remove it and from now on do a quarantine on all your new fish for at least 4 weeks. This is to avoid introducing something nasty like velvet disease and contaminating/losing all your fishes.

what tank size is that?? If you have liverock that was cured your tank may be cycled already but do not add fish too fast or you will create another cycle.

Especialy if you have a large tank and plan on adding a lot of fish, quarantine is a MUST or you might lose them all very very quickly. It's anoying I know...I currently have a hippo tang in hyposalinité in order to cure white spots and it's going to be there for another 4 weeks before I can even put it in my tank. I just can't wait to see that beautiful fish in my tank but patience is a virtue here...nothing less.

Originally Posted by sharky222

Need advice!

My tank has been up and running for about 3 weeks, with live rock and sand. I guess it is cycling?....but no sign of ammonia yet.

I added a chromis and a blue damsel about 10 days ago. They seemed to be doing well, so I added another 5 chromis and another blue damsel 2 days ago.

I found the new damsel dead today (he actually didn't look too lively when I put him in, and wasn't eating, so this was not a huge surprise). All of the other fishies are doing great. Still no sign of ammonia.

Question is: do I leave the dead fish in the tank? Or remove it? Will it help the tank cycle?

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

wow, remove it and from now on do a quarantine on all your new fish for at least 4 weeks. This is to avoid introducing something nasty like velvet disease and contaminating/losing all your fishes.

what tank size is that?? If you have liverock that was cured your tank may be cycled already but do not add fish too fast or you will create another cycle.

Especialy if you have a large tank and plan on adding a lot of fish, quarantine is a MUST or you might lose them all very very quickly. It's anoying I know...I currently have a hippo tang in hyposalinité in order to cure white spots and it's going to be there for another 4 weeks before I can even put it in my tank. I just can't wait to see that beautiful fish in my tank but patience is a virtue here...nothing less.

its sad that not enough people run quarantine tanks , above is some really good advice i would never add a fish without spending a month in quarantine and for good reasons once disease gets into your tank its hard to get rid of. a quarantine tank can be made for very cheap under a 100$ easily and can save you thousands in dead fish and coral.plus everytime your tank has to deal with unstability it will have to re stabilize which is just another set back in start up time establishment is what your aiming for and the easiest way is too play it patient for the first year.dont add alot and let your system grow after the first year you will have a very stable tank that you could add just about anything too... theres too many tanks around that are just getting by and lets face it this hobby isnt cheap and no one wants to lose out on their investment which is why alot of reefers dont make past the first 6mths.

also like noted above if you bought cured liverock you may not see much of a spike depending on how you got it to yourhouse. if your liverock wasnt cured then time is all it will take