HELP!!!

[GOEAZY]

Good morning all,

I have had my Red Sea G2 Xxl mx Nano for over a year. I have a mix of coral and a handful of fish. I test regularly and do water changes every week. On Sunday night one of my clown fish and my six line wrasse and goby were swimming unusually. It appeared that they were drowning and were gasping for air. I did a half tank water change and when I woke up the previously mentioned fish had died but the other clown fish and blue tang were fine. I made more checks and found that my skimmer was not working. So I cleaned it but it was confirmed broken and I am waiting for a new one. So I bought a canister filter to help with the bio-load and this morning I woke up and my tang was dead and also a damsel. My parameters are
Alk..8.9
Mag..1345
Cal..445
Temp. 76
Ph. 8
Sal.1.027
Phos..03
Nit. 10
I am just very confused any help would be awesome. Would an air stone in the back help till I get a skimmer?

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Do you have good surface agitation? You need that for gas exchange to get oxygen into the water.

 

[Idoc]

It's not your skimmer or parameters. One of your fish had a disease and it spread quickly to the other fish. Without seeing the fish or their symptoms, I cannot guess which disease. But a few of them can kill in a few days of symptoms. You may want to start considering quarantining fish prior to putting in your tank, if you don't already.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Do you not have powerheads in the display tank aimed up at the surface for agitation?

Rocks will take care of the bioload, a canister will do nothing for that. Do you have rock in the tank?

Maybe disease as mentioned above?

also a blue tang with clowns and 6-line in a nano tank sounds like an aggressive tank. I don't know what other fish you had, but maybe they had a royal rumble

 

[GOEAZY]

Do you not have powerheads in the display tank aimed up at the surface for agitation?

Rocks will take care of the bioload, a canister will do nothing for that. Do you have rock in the tank?

Maybe disease as mentioned above?

also a blue tang with clowns and 6-line in a nano tank sounds like an aggressive tank. I don't know what other fish you had, but maybe they had a royal rumble

I do have two power heads one opposite sides and my returns are point more up for agitation.

 

[Bear22]

Do you not have powerheads in the display tank aimed up at the surface for agitation?

Rocks will take care of the bioload, a canister will do nothing for that. Do you have rock in the tank?

Maybe disease as mentioned above?

also a blue tang with clowns and 6-line in a nano tank sounds like an aggressive tank. I don't know what other fish you had, but maybe they had a royal rumble

Done correctly, a canister filter will absolutely do much of the heavy lifting with respect to a biome-bioload. Once again, an incorrect piece of information coming from you...

 

[GOEAZY]

Do you not have powerheads in the display tank aimed up at the surface for agitation?

Rocks will take care of the bioload, a canister will do nothing for that. Do you have rock in the tank?

Maybe disease as mentioned above?

also a blue tang with clowns and 6-line in a nano tank sounds like an aggressive tank. I don't know what other fish you had, but maybe they had a royal rumble

I do have two power heads one opposite sides and my returns are point more up for agitation.

 

[GOEAZY]

 

[Dom]

Once again, an incorrect piece of information coming from you...

The guy has an "Excellence" badge. He must be doing something right.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Done correctly, a canister filter will absolutely do much of the heavy lifting with respect to a biome-bioload. Once again, an incorrect piece of information coming from you...

you should reply to the OP troll, not to others

quote "So I bought a canister filter to help with the bio-load" unquote

Did he really need to buy a canister to help with the bioload in this particular situation? No, he didn't, the canister added nothing in this particular situation. your reply is more generalised, I did not give a general reply, I replied directly to the OP, so you do the same troll and stay in your lane and out of my posts, you don't like what I say then report me, but don't troll me

 

[Bear22]

you should reply to the OP troll, not to others

quote "So I bought a canister filter to help with the bio-load" unquote

Did he really need to buy a canister to help with the bioload in this particular situation? No, he didn't, the canister added nothing in this particular situation. your reply is more generalised, I did not give a general reply, I replied directly to the OP, so you do the same troll and stay in your lane and out of my posts, you don't like what I say then report me, but don't troll me

The guy has an "Excellence" badge. He must be doing something right.

Lol, does "badge count" override unfactual statements?

I seem remember you also putting out bad info., with regards to canister filter use...

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Done correctly, a canister filter will absolutely do much of the heavy lifting with respect to a biome-bioload. Once again, an incorrect piece of information coming from you...

Let me make it clear because you like to critique but I don't think you know very much.

If someone's skimmer breaks down, they do not need - nor should they - go out to buy a canister filter "to help with the bioload", it provides no benefit, exactly like I said. Something else I think you are unaware of, but actually you don't even need a skimmer or a canister or any other filter. amazing eh? I can teach you a few things to you if you stop being a jerk

 

[GOEAZY]

Do you not have powerheads in the display tank aimed up at the surface for agitation?

Rocks will take care of the bioload, a canister will do nothing for that. Do you have rock in the tank?

Maybe disease as mentioned above?

also a blue tang with clowns and 6-line in a nano tank sounds like an aggressive tank. I don't know what other fish you had, but maybe they had a royal rumble

Done correctly, a canister filter will absolutely do much of the heavy lifting with respect to a biome-bioload. Once again, an incorrect piece of information coming from you...

That’s what I figured. It’s has been a pain in the nuts to try and get a new skimmer from Red Sea that can fit my tank. It’s an all in one so the sump is in the back.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Done correctly, a canister filter will absolutely do much of the heavy lifting with respect to a biome-bioload. Once again, an incorrect piece of information coming from you...

The OP did not ask how to set up a canister to much of the heavy lifting in respect to a biome-bioload, thats not the question at all. don't be a troll

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

@GOEAZY I apologize for de-railing the thread, I truly am sorry

 

[Dom]

Lol, does "badge count" override unfactual statements?

I seem remember you also putting out bad info., with regards to canister filter use...

I remember that. You were right and I learned something. Thank you!

But why the need to attack people?

People come here to learn. And when they participate in thread conversations, they are acting in good faith.

If info is incorrect, there is a right way and a wrong way to point it out. Yours was an example of the wrong way.

Maybe you should try petting a puppy.

 

[Bear22]

I remember that. You were right and I learned something. Thank you!

But why the need to attack people?

People come here to learn. And when they participate in thread conversations, they are acting in good faith.

If info is incorrect, there is a right way and a wrong way to point it out. Yours was an example of the wrong way.

Maybe you should try petting a puppy.

The feelings over facts isn't an issue with me. No puppy needed.

 

[GOEAZY]

Do you not have powerheads in the display tank aimed up at the surface for agitation?

Rocks will take care of the bioload, a canister will do nothing for that. Do you have rock in the tank?

Maybe disease as mentioned above?

also a blue tang with clowns and 6-line in a nano tank sounds like an aggressive tank. I don't know what other fish you had, but maybe they had a royal rumble

Done correctly, a canister filter will absolutely do much of the heavy lifting with respect to a biome-bioload. Once again, an incorrect piece of information coming from you...

That’s what I figured. It’s has been a pain in the nuts to try and get a new skimmer from Red Sea that can fit my tank. It’s an all in one so the sump is in the back.

Eazzy eazzy I will take any help and or advice ….This is my first salt water tank and all my info was coming from my local salt water store and from online. there is only one store where I live. The store also quarantine all the fish for a month prior to selling them to me and me putting them in my tank.

I also did not see any fish aggression. I am pretty hands on with the tank because it’s my first one.

I just thought it was puzzling because they all were fine throughout the day. They ate normally. But all died at night.

I was normally testing in the day but due to this new issue I tested at night to see if there was a big change. The only thing was my ph went from 8.0 to 7.8.

 

[KrisReef]

Eazzy eazzy I will take any help and or advice ….This is my first salt water tank and all my info was coming from my local salt water store and from online. there is only one store where I live. The store also quarantine all the fish for a month prior to selling them to me and me putting them in my tank.

I also did not see any fish aggression. I am pretty hands on with the tank because it’s my first one.

I just thought it was puzzling because they all were fine throughout the day. They ate normally. But all died at night.

I was normally testing in the day but due to this new issue I tested at night to see if there was a big change. The only thing was my ph went from 8.0 to 7.8.

What are you feeding them? If you have frozen foods, if they thaw in shipping I suspect that these can harbor death to our fishes when we feed them, lets say Hazardous Foods that may have started to degrade in the transportation route before we bought them.