Fish Randomly Dying

[ThatFishGuy]

I know it sounds odd but raise that calcium level up. For some reason when mine once dropped down to 300 I had the exact same problem.

ill give that a try and let you know how it goes!

 

[robbyg]

So what happened?

 

[ThatFishGuy]

So far nothing else has died. Still doing water changes to raise my calcium. Doing 15 gallons every other day to also lower nitrates

 

[Barks]

Are you running carbon to eliminate toxins?

 

[ThatFishGuy]

Are you running carbon to eliminate toxins?

Yes

 

[robbyg]

So far nothing else has died. Still doing water changes to raise my calcium. Doing 15 gallons every other day to also lower nitrates

Thats Good news.
BTW keep a container of Kent Turbo Calcium on hand. It's a quick way to raise calcium levels.

 

[ThatFishGuy]

Thats Good news.
BTW keep a container of Kent Turbo Calcium on hand. It's a quick way to raise calcium levels.

Yeah, atm i have a bottle of red sea calcium. But doing water changes to get the calcium up for now

 

[Cell]

Maybe run a poly filter too.

 

[ThatFishGuy]

Update: so its been 2 weeks since my last fish death and no more have died on me. I continued out that week with my 15 gallon water changes every other day and have not done one this week. so far so good.

 

[Aliasger]

Hi all,
I am having the same issue, but not with calcium. It is with my KH. I normally use seawater and run Calcium reactor along so that my pH remains constant. i feel a little embarassed but my tank runs on 450ppm calcium and 18dkh KH. I tried to decrease Alkalinity by switching off the Calcium reactor , but as soon as it reaches 8 or 9 . I see poped eye and bacterial infection on the fish. I have a 4000 Gallon saltwater tank with parameters
pH; 8.1
kH: 18dkh
Calcium; 450ppm
Mag : 1350ppm
Nitrates: 20ppm
Nitrties: 0
Ammonia: 0
Salinity: 1.023
I had read a thread in which Randy had mentioned about not making major changes unless the fish have been doing well and its been 4 years the fish were doing great. Suddenly this happened.