Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[Musovski]

So ive just checked my parameters and everything is fine. Im confused to why the female died.

 

[najer]

Skimmer before here, @siggy 3 - 5 minutes a day, including feeding and manual dosing and top up of ro except when I have fill the oxydators them maybe 10 minutes! ;)

 

[fabutahoun]

morning everyone... im very sad today. my female clown has passed. today made 8 months with the pair. The male is still alive.

Sorry to hear that :(

 

[siggy]

morning everyone... im very sad today. my female clown has passed. today made 8 months with the pair. The male is still alive.

Bummer dude! I lost one of a pair, the little guy is lost now. BTW I only stop in when I have all day to Ketchup, But it seems that when I do you are loosing fish.;Inpain Have you done a Triton test or similar to determine if your water is good? You have some beautiful animals it would be a shame to see them disappear due to a bad piece of Rock.

 

[Musovski]

Bummer dude! I lost one of a pair, the little guy is lost now. BTW I only stop in when I have all day to Ketchup, But it seems that when I do you are loosing fish.;Inpain Have you done a Triton test or similar to determine if your water is good? You have some beautiful animals it would be a shame to see them disappear due to a bad piece of Rock.

Ive done a full test of my tank, not icp, with my LFS. Everything was in check even trace elements except calcium which was at 510. but its true, its like i lose a fish every week. All my tangs are fine. ive lost 1 wrasse due to jumping, 1 goby due to jumping (both happened in 24 hours).... and now i lose my female clown.. I might just have to invest in a ICP test.

Could it be too much of a bio-load?

 

[sfin52]

Stress ,agression , or maybe something in the tank going after fish. Time to break out the red light and observe the tank at 0 dark 30

 

[sfin52]

Stress ,agression , or maybe something in the tank going after fish. Time to break out the red light and observe the tank at 0 dark 30

 

[Musovski]

Stress ,agression , or maybe something in the tank going after fish. Time to break out the red light and observe the tank at 0 dark 30

hmm... Could the male have killed the female with aggression? Can there be something hiding in the rocks that will kill my fish?

 

[siggy]

Could it be too much of a bio-load?

I dont know your system But Learned the hard way that too many is a stresser . But you NY'ers live in sardine cans;Wideyed

 

[Musovski]

I dont know your system But Learned the hard way that too many is a stresser . But you NY'ers live in sardine cans;Wideyed

yeah.. we do. haha! Ill let the male live in his own for now. I might just go buy a wild occelaris from my LFS for $10 and introduce them soon. hopefully they pair with minimal aggression.

 

[Katrina71]

morning everyone... im very sad today. my female clown has passed. today made 8 months with the pair. The male is still alive.

I'm so sorry:(

 

[sfin52]

How many fish and size and system info will help.

 

[Musovski]

I'm so sorry:(

its ok. it happens. anyways lets get back to that sump design! what you got in mind so far?

 

[count krunk]

tops are a must IMO @Musovski. Screen tops so it doesn't limit air exchange.

 

[Musovski]

How many fish and size and system info will help.

7 fish, 65 gallon tank plus 35 gallon sump. 100 pounds of live rock plus DSB in tank and sump.

tops are a must IMO @Musovski. Screen tops so it doesn't limit air exchange.

yeah.. i figured this out after the two fish jumped.... Now i know for any future build

 

[Musovski]

@Katrina71 do you plan on keeping any reactors in the sump?

 

[Katrina71]

@Katrina71 do you plan on keeping any reactors in the sump?

It would be possible, but down the rd

 

[najer]

"If you don't keep me updated on the sump plans daddy I will continue to do this!" :eek:

 

[Katrina71]

@Musovski any idea what happened?

 

[Katrina71]

@najer I will most likely not run my skimmer all the time either. Unless something drastically changes with this tank from what I have going on now.