I did 2 10% water changes to get my alk up (noticed that my Xenia and pipe organ corals were tightly closed). When I measured all it was around 6. After water changes it was up to like 6.5.
I only had 2 clownfish in the tank they were perfectly fine before the water change. That night though they were near the gravel hiding among the rocks and the smallest one at one point was laying on the gravel and the larger one kinda pushed him with its nose to I’m assuming see if it was ok.
I started running carbon in my media reactor in case something chemical got in and started agitating the water surface a lot more with my return thinking maybe everything being off for a bit messed with the oxygenation. I also added prime to the tank because I thought maybe chlorine got into the tank (I cleaned my filter socks and with diluted bleach but I rinsed them and air dried them and then rinsed them again in water with prime and they’ve been drying now over a week). This was the first time I used the filter socks after cleaning them... usually I use it while I clean off the rocks and gravel to catch everything.
No idea what happened.
Water parameters:
Sg: 1.024-1.026 (I top up RO water manually my Sg does fluctuate a bit)
Alk: 6.5 (was around 5.5-6 before water changes)
Calcium: around 440
Phos: 0 (using API test)
Ammonia: 0
Nitrate: 0 (been heavily feeding to try and get this up and stopped using filter socks all the time for the last 2 weeks or so trying to get it up)
Ph: 8.0 (was 8.2 before water changes)
This tank is relatively new, I think 2 months now. 40gals with a 20G sump using maybe 15g in there. I have a media reactor I use for carbon and I did use GFO early on to help with phosphates from some of the newer rock but only used it for a bit. Everything except the substrate came from a smaller tank that was 6 months old and I cycled extra rock in it. Plus used fritz turbo start. The cycle happened really fast and algae was growing. The tank has tonnes of copepods.
The corals look fine. Except zoas and Xenia are still half opened and the organ pipe coral is fully closed. Maybe a few small polyps open now and then.
Not sure what else could have happened. I did clean the outside of the tank with a bit of windex sprayed on a cloth which I probably shouldn’t have done but I’m almost certain none got into the tank.
The smaller fish I couldn’t really inspect since it was so small but the larger one had no visible issues. Gills looked red maybe a bit of white. No spots on the outside. He was struggling to swim and started kinda floating around nose pointed up and wouldn’t react when I got close to him.
Really at a lost for what happened. Things were going so well too and they got along swimming around with each other. Usually the bigger guy looking out for the smaller one.
Any ideas what could have happened?
I only had 2 clownfish in the tank they were perfectly fine before the water change. That night though they were near the gravel hiding among the rocks and the smallest one at one point was laying on the gravel and the larger one kinda pushed him with its nose to I’m assuming see if it was ok.
I started running carbon in my media reactor in case something chemical got in and started agitating the water surface a lot more with my return thinking maybe everything being off for a bit messed with the oxygenation. I also added prime to the tank because I thought maybe chlorine got into the tank (I cleaned my filter socks and with diluted bleach but I rinsed them and air dried them and then rinsed them again in water with prime and they’ve been drying now over a week). This was the first time I used the filter socks after cleaning them... usually I use it while I clean off the rocks and gravel to catch everything.
No idea what happened.
Water parameters:
Sg: 1.024-1.026 (I top up RO water manually my Sg does fluctuate a bit)
Alk: 6.5 (was around 5.5-6 before water changes)
Calcium: around 440
Phos: 0 (using API test)
Ammonia: 0
Nitrate: 0 (been heavily feeding to try and get this up and stopped using filter socks all the time for the last 2 weeks or so trying to get it up)
Ph: 8.0 (was 8.2 before water changes)
This tank is relatively new, I think 2 months now. 40gals with a 20G sump using maybe 15g in there. I have a media reactor I use for carbon and I did use GFO early on to help with phosphates from some of the newer rock but only used it for a bit. Everything except the substrate came from a smaller tank that was 6 months old and I cycled extra rock in it. Plus used fritz turbo start. The cycle happened really fast and algae was growing. The tank has tonnes of copepods.
The corals look fine. Except zoas and Xenia are still half opened and the organ pipe coral is fully closed. Maybe a few small polyps open now and then.
Not sure what else could have happened. I did clean the outside of the tank with a bit of windex sprayed on a cloth which I probably shouldn’t have done but I’m almost certain none got into the tank.
The smaller fish I couldn’t really inspect since it was so small but the larger one had no visible issues. Gills looked red maybe a bit of white. No spots on the outside. He was struggling to swim and started kinda floating around nose pointed up and wouldn’t react when I got close to him.
Really at a lost for what happened. Things were going so well too and they got along swimming around with each other. Usually the bigger guy looking out for the smaller one.
Any ideas what could have happened?
