Fish loss

[JGStriker]

I looked at the video of your gramma and I don't see much of a problem. These fish like to hide on small holes in the rock when threatened or stressed. Mine is about the same size as yours and will find holes in rocks as small as 1/2 inch and completely disappear. As Jay said your pH is low and you should not be seeing Ammonia even with a dead fish in your tank. I would do two things. 1. Plan for a pathogen popping up and have a hospital Tank read to go and have Copperpower and Prazi ready. 2. I hear a lot of commotion on your video. Ask your kids if they are feeding or sticking their hands in your tank and try to step away to reduce the stress on your fish.

Also, my kids don’t really have much access to the tank, so I don’t have any worries about them, feeding her, putting into the tank outside of when I have specifically brought them food and supervised

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I guess the next question becomes how do you really assess this. I have a gyre sitting right at the surface of the water agitating so I would’ve assumed good oxygenation. Honestly, I have turned down the flow a little bit just because I was worried this could also be causing some additional stress I also have a corner overflow with water going down to some, running a protein skimmer, which I think would also help oxygenate

The protein skimmer will help degass the carbon dioxide, but then, you are left with what else could cause the the low pH issue. Maybe it's you test that is off?

 

[WhatCouldGoWrong71]

Would be odd to see ammonia in a cycled tank that size. What tests are being used? For the best assistance please read through this post.

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Agreed. I dose ammonia and have a hard time detecting while in my dosing window.

 

[MnFish1]

To answer your question - you should leave your tank fishless for 8 weeks. Are you sure that you're ammonia dosing is correct. Unless you're really experienced with it - I would tend not to use it. (why are you dosing ammonia? - or did I misunderstand)

 

[JGStriker]

To answer your question - you should leave your tank fishless for 8 weeks. Are you sure that you're ammonia dosing is correct. Unless you're really experienced with it - I would tend not to use it. (why are you dosing ammonia? - or did I misunderstand)

That was another person, commenting that doses ammonia, I do not dose ammonia.

Would you recommend that I try to remove the two fish that look healthy and put them in a hospital tank and just do broad medications? I definitely do not see ich evidence but don’t have enough experience to identify any other infectious clues