Gtinnel
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I have a purple tang that I've had in QT for about 6 weeks and I was slowly raising my salinity to match the DT before I switch him over in a few days. I have a cup that I have had sitting beside the QT that I have been putting uneaten scraps of nori and I think I dumped a little skimmate in there. Well last night I go to feed the tang some mysis before bed and I set the food cup down and tested the salinity of the tank first. I then grabbed the cup with all of the disgusting crud and accidentally dumped it into the tank instead of the food. The tank instantly got so cloudy that I couldn't see to the back of the 29g tank.
I then went into a panic mode and a stuck a spare pump with sponge filter into the tank to hopefully collect a lot of the particles. I grabbed a heater and was going to start heating my mixing station water to do a large water change, but unfortunately I am near the ends of my 2 week cycle of having water in mixing station so there was probably only 5 gallons of mixed saltwater. I then added 25 gallons of rodi water to the salt container and started mixing up new salt water, but I know it takes several hours to completely mix the salt in and heat up.
I checked the ammonia several times over the next several hours and it always showed at 0 (well actually .25 but it's an API test I treat that as 0). The tang is still acting fine so I eventually give up and go to bed. I wake up about 4 hours later to go and do the large water change and now the tang is acting unusual. He is still swimming around but he seems like he is listless, also he doesn't hide when I approach the tank like he always did before. I checked the ammonia and it was still 0 (well .25) Now he also has a small white dot on the edge of his fin. He went through a full 30 days of copper so I assume the dot is just lympho since in theory it can't be a parasite.
I had the heater set too high in my mixing station and that water is close to 85 degrees, and I have to hurry so I can leave for work, so I quickly acclimated the tang to my display tank, the qt salinity was only .002 too low so I don't think the quick acclimation will be a huge deal. Hopefully when I get home I don't find that I killed my purple tang through my carelessness.
Thanks for anyone who reads all of this, it's been a long night and morning and I had to get this off my chest. Wish me luck that I don't find a dead tang when I get home from work. Being a purple tang they're pretty hardy so I am hopeful.
I then went into a panic mode and a stuck a spare pump with sponge filter into the tank to hopefully collect a lot of the particles. I grabbed a heater and was going to start heating my mixing station water to do a large water change, but unfortunately I am near the ends of my 2 week cycle of having water in mixing station so there was probably only 5 gallons of mixed saltwater. I then added 25 gallons of rodi water to the salt container and started mixing up new salt water, but I know it takes several hours to completely mix the salt in and heat up.
I checked the ammonia several times over the next several hours and it always showed at 0 (well actually .25 but it's an API test I treat that as 0). The tang is still acting fine so I eventually give up and go to bed. I wake up about 4 hours later to go and do the large water change and now the tang is acting unusual. He is still swimming around but he seems like he is listless, also he doesn't hide when I approach the tank like he always did before. I checked the ammonia and it was still 0 (well .25) Now he also has a small white dot on the edge of his fin. He went through a full 30 days of copper so I assume the dot is just lympho since in theory it can't be a parasite.
I had the heater set too high in my mixing station and that water is close to 85 degrees, and I have to hurry so I can leave for work, so I quickly acclimated the tang to my display tank, the qt salinity was only .002 too low so I don't think the quick acclimation will be a huge deal. Hopefully when I get home I don't find that I killed my purple tang through my carelessness.
Thanks for anyone who reads all of this, it's been a long night and morning and I had to get this off my chest. Wish me luck that I don't find a dead tang when I get home from work. Being a purple tang they're pretty hardy so I am hopeful.
