Yrevanth
Active Member
Hi All,
I have a new issue here. I have been in the hobby for a little over 7 years now, but have not faced a situation like this.
i had the following fish:
1) Powder Brown Tang
2) Flame Angel
3) 2 bartletts anthias
4) 3 lyre tail anthias
5) 2 small clowns
my tank is a red sea reefer 525 XL (around 110 gal total water after removing rock and sand). Tank parameters are as follows and have been steady and consistent over the last 2 months, which i have been measuring every single day.
Cal-480
Mag-1260
alk-9.5
No3- undetectable
po4- undetectable
ammonia- undetectable
The tank was setup in the beginning of july. so it is a little over 3.5 months old. Cycle was done by 28 days after, so around beginning of august, after which i started slowly adding 1 or 2 fish at a time per week. Everything seemed to be fine till last week, when all of a sudden one of the lyretail anthias started swimming wonky and lost appetite and died the next day, followed by another one of the anthias the next day. At this rate, i was losing on average 1 fish a day! With no discernable issues other than the fish swimming weirdly and stops eating. I know how ich looks like, as i had an attack of that a couple of years ago, but this time around it was completely weird.
Now i only have 3 fish are left in my system, of which the clown fish looks like it has ich on its body and is starting to swim erratically and i think he may not make it.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
Now i also have a bunch of SPS in my tank (I know!, but the reason i have sps there is because my old tank was crashing hard with an alk swing and i had to put all my pieces in my newly setup tank. Thankfully i have not lost any pieces so far!) Please help!
I have a new issue here. I have been in the hobby for a little over 7 years now, but have not faced a situation like this.
i had the following fish:
1) Powder Brown Tang
2) Flame Angel
3) 2 bartletts anthias
4) 3 lyre tail anthias
5) 2 small clowns
my tank is a red sea reefer 525 XL (around 110 gal total water after removing rock and sand). Tank parameters are as follows and have been steady and consistent over the last 2 months, which i have been measuring every single day.
Cal-480
Mag-1260
alk-9.5
No3- undetectable
po4- undetectable
ammonia- undetectable
The tank was setup in the beginning of july. so it is a little over 3.5 months old. Cycle was done by 28 days after, so around beginning of august, after which i started slowly adding 1 or 2 fish at a time per week. Everything seemed to be fine till last week, when all of a sudden one of the lyretail anthias started swimming wonky and lost appetite and died the next day, followed by another one of the anthias the next day. At this rate, i was losing on average 1 fish a day! With no discernable issues other than the fish swimming weirdly and stops eating. I know how ich looks like, as i had an attack of that a couple of years ago, but this time around it was completely weird.
Now i only have 3 fish are left in my system, of which the clown fish looks like it has ich on its body and is starting to swim erratically and i think he may not make it.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
Now i also have a bunch of SPS in my tank (I know!, but the reason i have sps there is because my old tank was crashing hard with an alk swing and i had to put all my pieces in my newly setup tank. Thankfully i have not lost any pieces so far!) Please help!
