Hello everyone,
Sadly today when I came home from work I found our blue hippo tang in a crevice underneath some rock work not moving. At first I wasn’t alarmed because from the moment I put it in the tank it was doing that & being a problem. Causing rock work rearranging and everything. Asked the wife to look while I lifted the rock (I could see it was not pinned and appeared to have extra space but figured lifting rock would encourage it to swim to another) and sadly no, it was dead. Ive had 2 clownfish for the life of the tank (8-9 months), a scopas tang & cleaner shrimp for about a month, and my 2y/o daughter has discovered finding Nemo so I got her a Dory (that she LOVED) last Friday. So she made it about 5 days. I have nori I keep on clips in the tank, algae wafers, pemysis pellets, and frozen shrimp “protein loaded” or what have you. And was feeding a mix of all of it to them. First time I’d ever worried about over feeding to be honest. The only other abnormality lately has been very high alkalinity I’ve yet to be able to correct, I don’t know when it got this high but I learned of it May 20
Tank parameters:
pH: 8.0
Salinity: 1.025
Ammonia: 0.0
Nitrate: 10
Phosphate: 0.1
Alkalinity: 4.64 - 5 Meq/L or 14 dKH
Really curious because the fish looks like it might’ve been sick. So I’m not sure if I should be worried about my other 3 fish that have always been - and notably still are - very healthy seeming. I am also working on the alkalinity, I suspect not enough oxygen exchange where I don’t have a protein skimmer & have glass lids with only a 3” strip open to the air at the back of the tank. Going to set up a bubbler and run the air house to fresh outdoors probably. I have also heard that instant ocean reef salts are highly carbonate concentrated so could be that too.
what do you guys think? Illness? Or injury/decay from having been dead against a rock for a day & my tank’s alkalinity being way too high?
Sadly today when I came home from work I found our blue hippo tang in a crevice underneath some rock work not moving. At first I wasn’t alarmed because from the moment I put it in the tank it was doing that & being a problem. Causing rock work rearranging and everything. Asked the wife to look while I lifted the rock (I could see it was not pinned and appeared to have extra space but figured lifting rock would encourage it to swim to another) and sadly no, it was dead. Ive had 2 clownfish for the life of the tank (8-9 months), a scopas tang & cleaner shrimp for about a month, and my 2y/o daughter has discovered finding Nemo so I got her a Dory (that she LOVED) last Friday. So she made it about 5 days. I have nori I keep on clips in the tank, algae wafers, pemysis pellets, and frozen shrimp “protein loaded” or what have you. And was feeding a mix of all of it to them. First time I’d ever worried about over feeding to be honest. The only other abnormality lately has been very high alkalinity I’ve yet to be able to correct, I don’t know when it got this high but I learned of it May 20
Tank parameters:
pH: 8.0
Salinity: 1.025
Ammonia: 0.0
Nitrate: 10
Phosphate: 0.1
Alkalinity: 4.64 - 5 Meq/L or 14 dKH
Really curious because the fish looks like it might’ve been sick. So I’m not sure if I should be worried about my other 3 fish that have always been - and notably still are - very healthy seeming. I am also working on the alkalinity, I suspect not enough oxygen exchange where I don’t have a protein skimmer & have glass lids with only a 3” strip open to the air at the back of the tank. Going to set up a bubbler and run the air house to fresh outdoors probably. I have also heard that instant ocean reef salts are highly carbonate concentrated so could be that too.
what do you guys think? Illness? Or injury/decay from having been dead against a rock for a day & my tank’s alkalinity being way too high?