Help! Fish dying

[shaneku5]

Recently i did a tank transfer from a 60 to a 120. Within the past 2 weeks afyer the transfer my emperor angel and French angel have died. I have had them both for over a year. I also had a gold rim tang that died this morning. I have been checking my water levels everyday and they are perfect. I don't know what could be causing this. Any help would be appreciated, thanks

 

[NanaReefer]

Was the 120 brand new? What exactly are your parameters?


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[Alesolra]

What was the process you did to change them tank

 

[shaneku5]

No ammonia, nitrates, nitrites, and ph 8.2. Salinity .024.
The tank was previously used and then taken down. I cleaned it out very well when I got it. I used all the rock, sand, water, etc from my previous tank. I have been adding 5 gallons x2 a week to get the tank full since I used the old water initially.

 

[rworegon]

Could be stress. Did your lighting change? What about temp? Any chance there are any residue from cleaners? I normally wouldn't use all the sand from an old tank but if your nitrates are really at zero that shouldn't be an issue. I would check params again. Ususally its a mini cycle from dieoff or detritus in the old sand bed being disturbed. Good luck.

 

[shaneku5]

I did change my lighting to led's 3 weeks before the tank swap. I will check my params again tonight, thanks

 

[always reefin]

how are you testing for ammonia?

 

[shaneku5]

I am using my API test kit

 

[mike007]

If you distrubed the sandbed you probaly had a ammonia spike that killed you fish. Leds would not cause this.