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Hi,
I have just started my 300 gallon tank. I cycled it with my clown fish for several months, then added the rest, along with some extra bacteria. I never saw any spike in ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate.
Here are the fish added:
porcupine puffer
flame angel
coral beauty
3 schooling bannerfish
powder blue tang
yellow tang
Sunset Butterflyfish
Auriga Butterflyfish
humma trigger
I also have more fish in quarantine (going to keep them there until I figure out what is going on in this tank).
Here is what happened.
1- One of the schooling bannerfish was scratching like it had ick. (same day as added to tank)
2- The Sunset butterfly had a large red area on its side. I initially though it was injured by another fish. (same day as added to the tank, not sure if it was that way before adding it though, I didn't notice it in the bag)
3- The Sunset butterfly fish was dead the next morning
4- The second morning after adding the fish the flame angel was dead. I didn't really see much other than the trigger was trying to eat it.
5- After about 5 days the shooling bannerfish had large swollen areas on one side (morning). By night the areas were larger, and he was not moving. He was dead by the next morning, and had large holes where the swollen areas were.
6- white spots noticed on powder blue tang, flame angel, and coral beauty.
7- I think the spots are ich, and even though the deaths did not seam like ick, I start reducing the salinity to go into hypo salinity for a month (would rather not use copper due to the puffer).
8- Puffer had been extremely healthy, and eating great. But all of a sudden he gets lethargic around noon, and is dead by night. (salinity had only been reduced to 0.020 at this point).
9- continue reducing salinity
10- white spots on powder blue tang turn black, and he turns a lighter color blue (you can also see lots of bumps on him), coral beauty has a swollen mouth (still eating)
11-stop lowering salinity. Currently at 0.012
12- second bannerfish has popey (both eyes).
At this point I am not sure if I should keep going with the hyposalinity, or raise it back up and tread whatever is going on. I have never run into so many things going on.
Any idea on what I should do?
By the way, the ammonia and nitrite are still showing zero, and I am maintaining ph at 7.9-8.0 using sodium carbonate (cooked backing soda).
I have just started my 300 gallon tank. I cycled it with my clown fish for several months, then added the rest, along with some extra bacteria. I never saw any spike in ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate.
Here are the fish added:
porcupine puffer
flame angel
coral beauty
3 schooling bannerfish
powder blue tang
yellow tang
Sunset Butterflyfish
Auriga Butterflyfish
humma trigger
I also have more fish in quarantine (going to keep them there until I figure out what is going on in this tank).
Here is what happened.
1- One of the schooling bannerfish was scratching like it had ick. (same day as added to tank)
2- The Sunset butterfly had a large red area on its side. I initially though it was injured by another fish. (same day as added to the tank, not sure if it was that way before adding it though, I didn't notice it in the bag)
3- The Sunset butterfly fish was dead the next morning
4- The second morning after adding the fish the flame angel was dead. I didn't really see much other than the trigger was trying to eat it.
5- After about 5 days the shooling bannerfish had large swollen areas on one side (morning). By night the areas were larger, and he was not moving. He was dead by the next morning, and had large holes where the swollen areas were.
6- white spots noticed on powder blue tang, flame angel, and coral beauty.
7- I think the spots are ich, and even though the deaths did not seam like ick, I start reducing the salinity to go into hypo salinity for a month (would rather not use copper due to the puffer).
8- Puffer had been extremely healthy, and eating great. But all of a sudden he gets lethargic around noon, and is dead by night. (salinity had only been reduced to 0.020 at this point).
9- continue reducing salinity
10- white spots on powder blue tang turn black, and he turns a lighter color blue (you can also see lots of bumps on him), coral beauty has a swollen mouth (still eating)
11-stop lowering salinity. Currently at 0.012
12- second bannerfish has popey (both eyes).
At this point I am not sure if I should keep going with the hyposalinity, or raise it back up and tread whatever is going on. I have never run into so many things going on.
Any idea on what I should do?
By the way, the ammonia and nitrite are still showing zero, and I am maintaining ph at 7.9-8.0 using sodium carbonate (cooked backing soda).