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Hey guys, so I got my Fluval M90 36 gallon tank set up roughly 6 months now, everything is going well and we are loving the tank. Around March, we had an ich problem and treated our tank with Medic from Polyp Lab for like three straight weeks. Sometimes it seems like the situation is under control, sometimes seems like it came back with a revenge. Long story short I decided to go the cupper treatment route. I purchased a bunch of equipment to set up the hospital tank, and put the BioMax filter insert into my current tank trying to build up the bacteria colony. Just right after I did that, ich seems like they are gone. Then I decided to just leave that BioMax in my display tank and just wait and see if ich comes back.
Two months went by, nothing happened. Couple weeks ago, I decided to remove that BioMax from my tank simply because I didn’t think I needed it anymore. Sure enough, bad things started to happen, my long nose hawk started to hide behind a big rock and breath heavily, he still comes out when I feed frozen food. And this morning I found him dead. Now my clowns and Flame angel are doing the same, not swimming around, breathing heavily, hiding in rocks…and it seems like they got a layer of this foggy looking thing on their fins and bodies, which is not like ich I used to see on them..Can somebody please help me out and give us a few pointers..
Current Tank parameters:
Fluval M90
Salinity: 1.025
pH: 8.2
NO2: 0
NO3: 0
Ammonia: 0
Current Tank Mates:
2 Ocellaries Clowns
1 Long Nose Hawk
1 Flame Angel
1 Midas Blenny
1 Diamond Gobby
1 Fire shrimp
1 Arrow Crab
1 Pom Pom
2 Nassarius Snails
3 Fighting Conch
2 Margarita Snails
2 Trochus Snails
1 Blue Leg Hermit
1 Red Leg Hermit
1 Orange/Black Hermit
2 Zoanthids Frags
1 Pulsing Xenia
1 Frogspawn
1 Hairy Mushroom
Two months went by, nothing happened. Couple weeks ago, I decided to remove that BioMax from my tank simply because I didn’t think I needed it anymore. Sure enough, bad things started to happen, my long nose hawk started to hide behind a big rock and breath heavily, he still comes out when I feed frozen food. And this morning I found him dead. Now my clowns and Flame angel are doing the same, not swimming around, breathing heavily, hiding in rocks…and it seems like they got a layer of this foggy looking thing on their fins and bodies, which is not like ich I used to see on them..Can somebody please help me out and give us a few pointers..
Current Tank parameters:
Fluval M90
Salinity: 1.025
pH: 8.2
NO2: 0
NO3: 0
Ammonia: 0
Current Tank Mates:
2 Ocellaries Clowns
1 Long Nose Hawk
1 Flame Angel
1 Midas Blenny
1 Diamond Gobby
1 Fire shrimp
1 Arrow Crab
1 Pom Pom
2 Nassarius Snails
3 Fighting Conch
2 Margarita Snails
2 Trochus Snails
1 Blue Leg Hermit
1 Red Leg Hermit
1 Orange/Black Hermit
2 Zoanthids Frags
1 Pulsing Xenia
1 Frogspawn
1 Hairy Mushroom