About 6 weeks ago we upgraded a stable 90 gallon system to a 125. The install was performed by our LFS who, a week after install sold us new fish to fill out the larger tank population.
Long story short almost all the fish have died. The new ones and our long term friends. This was not immediate but occurred in waves. A small ammonia and nitrite spike was identified which has passed. They called it "new tank syndrome" and reassured us our fish would recover with metroplex and garlic.
Unfortunately that has not been the case. We set up a 32 gallon quarantine system. For about 5 days our display seemed stable with 5 fish looking normal.
Foolishly (don't beat me up I know this was stupid now) they offered to replace some of the fish that had died for quarantine, and we started that. Small fish, 4 anthias and 4 firefish. Two anthias died in 2 days but we are 5 days in and the remaining ones look good. Eating well and swimming around.
Back in the display tank things have not gone as well. A clownfish died, after hovering in a cave for a few days.
Last evening our grandfather tang, whom. We've had for many years, was covered with white spots. He wouldn't eat. This was sudden, he'd been looking good.
We were able to capture him (it took hours of patience to wait for the right moment as he was still swimming around with energy) and place him in the quarantine tank with the others. We dosed cupramine in the quarantine when we set it up. Copper reads between 0.25 and 0.5 on the API test kit.
The tang is dying today. It may just have been too late for him. It may be we lose the remaining 3 fish in our display. If we do we will let it go fish less for 2 months.
The issue with trying to remove all the remaining fish is the corals. We lost several in the upgrade due to being knocked around as rocks were moved. We can't catch them without doing this again. Which could just stress them out all over again.
Just want to know if there is something more we can do.
Thanks for your patience with this post.
Long story short almost all the fish have died. The new ones and our long term friends. This was not immediate but occurred in waves. A small ammonia and nitrite spike was identified which has passed. They called it "new tank syndrome" and reassured us our fish would recover with metroplex and garlic.
Unfortunately that has not been the case. We set up a 32 gallon quarantine system. For about 5 days our display seemed stable with 5 fish looking normal.
Foolishly (don't beat me up I know this was stupid now) they offered to replace some of the fish that had died for quarantine, and we started that. Small fish, 4 anthias and 4 firefish. Two anthias died in 2 days but we are 5 days in and the remaining ones look good. Eating well and swimming around.
Back in the display tank things have not gone as well. A clownfish died, after hovering in a cave for a few days.
Last evening our grandfather tang, whom. We've had for many years, was covered with white spots. He wouldn't eat. This was sudden, he'd been looking good.
We were able to capture him (it took hours of patience to wait for the right moment as he was still swimming around with energy) and place him in the quarantine tank with the others. We dosed cupramine in the quarantine when we set it up. Copper reads between 0.25 and 0.5 on the API test kit.
The tang is dying today. It may just have been too late for him. It may be we lose the remaining 3 fish in our display. If we do we will let it go fish less for 2 months.
The issue with trying to remove all the remaining fish is the corals. We lost several in the upgrade due to being knocked around as rocks were moved. We can't catch them without doing this again. Which could just stress them out all over again.
Just want to know if there is something more we can do.
Thanks for your patience with this post.
