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2 dead fish?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by chica0902, May 27, 2013.

  1. chica0902

    chica0902 Inactive User

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    Our tank has been up and running for almost a year. We've got several corals (frogspawn, candycane, golden torch, mushrooms, zoas, xenia, and an acro) and we had 6 fish (2 clowns, melanarus wrasse, black cap baslet, starry blenny, and a potters angel). The potters angel we just added into the tank 2 weeks ago. All of the other fish have been in there for a long time.


    Our water is testing out fine both here at home and at the 2 stores around here. We've been having problems with our zoas dying, and also our mushrooms used to open up huge, and now they're shriveling up and don't open that big.


    Our lights came on today and my husband noticed the blenny was dead on the bottom. He then looked further in, and the potters angel was also dead.


    We just had our water tested yesterday, and it was ok. The pH was a little low, so we added buffer for that, and also added a magnesium buffer.


    The blenny was moving around last night, as was the potters. My husband said he saw the potters moving around earlier this morning. Neither showed any signs of being sick or anything. The last few days, the potters has been hanging out up near the overflow box and not moving around a whole lot, so I wasn't sure he was going to make it anyway.


    Both stores around here are closed today, so we don't have that resource to call and ask questions. Does anyone have any insight as to why our fish have died (or our zoas/mushrooms are dying)?
     
  2. bobsfish

    bobsfish Experienced Reefkeeper

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    any other recent changes? 1 dead fish happens...2 is suspect
     
  3. chica0902

    chica0902 Inactive User

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    Nope. No other changes. The only changes we've made lately is adding the potters angel and then dosing for magnesium, which we've never done before. Joe told us to dose a teaspoon of the magnesium once a week. Thats the only thing we've done differently.
     
  4. moneypit

    moneypit Inactive User

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    Have you checked for a stray voltage?
     
  5. D007 Well-Known ReefKeeper

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    i wouldnt think dosing mag would be the culprit... was it just mag, or a mag&calcium product? dosing buffer and cal at the same time can cause some funky results, also adding buffer can cause stuff to close up for a while if too much is added at once. Hard to tell with the info given, if mag and buff where the only changes.

    Was the potters hanging out at the surface trying to get air or just chillin by the overflow box below surface? low disolved oxygen content can be a source of low ph which you said was something the test showed, low ph. got good surface flow? skimmer in sump?

    Zoas and shrooms like nutrients, is your water "perfectly" pristine? I had problem with zoas and other softies when i got my water almost nutrient free, seemed to do a little better with slightly "dirty" water. Do you run any phosphate removing material?
     
  6. bobsfish

    bobsfish Experienced Reefkeeper

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    I lost a starry blenny very suddenly about a year ago....one day he was eating great, swimming all over the tank, and the next day he was dead. Don't know what it was...all other fish and corals were fine. So ... a mysterious death. Yours could fall into that same cryptic category.
     
  7. xroads Veteran Reefkeeper Vendor

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    Just speculation, but if you dosed the alk too fast instead of dripping it in it could have caused alk burn to their gills. A sudden jump in alk is not good.
     

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