My fish almost died

Daoz126

Community Member
View Badges
Joined
May 3, 2019
Messages
51
Reaction score
15
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
I have a 125 gallon 5 damsels one trigger and a clown fish I bought a banded coral shrimp and a sleeper goby I acclimated them went to the gym came back 2 hrs later everything was fine went to the movies after was gone approximately 4 hrs all my fish were swimming disoriented and slow or were laying on there side hardly moving and my trigger and one of the damsels were looking discolored like dull my banded coral shrimp was doing fine the goby was no where to be found so I thought maybe one of the fish i bought was sick I was only able to grab the clown fish and trigger and put them on a bucket I had ready for when water evaporates my clown fish immediately started swimming back to normal the trigger not so much was barely moving so I kept trying to push him around for him to keep swimming. I dropped some prime from seachem then I did a water test prolly should of done the water test first not sure if it would of any effect but test look good after like 45 min fish started to swim back to normal and ended up putting the trigger and clown back into the tank and as soon I dropped the trigger started swimming again. I kept the banded coral shrimp out because he was attacking one of the damsels that was laying on the side so I'm not sure if maybe they were all stress because of the shrimp was kinda aggressive but then also I noticed my water lvls on my wet dry was kinda low and was blowing nothing but bubbles into the tank so I'm not sure if that effects the oxygen lvls or maybe with the new shrimp and goby my oxygen lvls went down and I'm not really sure symptoms of low oxygen lvls after a hr tank seem to be back to normal without the shrimp and slowly getting their color back. I have 4 530 gph power heads a 13w uv sterilizer a hang on cascade filter and wet dry with the overflow. Forgot my to say my goby came out and was the only one seem to be doing fine besides the shrimp need help on what to check or ideas what could of gone wrong I'm scared to come home or wake up and my fish are all dead
 

Bmw015

Active Member
View Badges
Joined
Jul 28, 2018
Messages
273
Reaction score
135
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
How did you acclimate? Do you have an ato? Tank parameters? Tank age?
 
OP
OP
Daoz126

Daoz126

Community Member
View Badges
Joined
May 3, 2019
Messages
51
Reaction score
15
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
How did you acclimate? Do you have an ato? Tank parameters? Tank age?
Tank is about 3 months old had it cycled with 100 pounds of live sand for a week before I put in 5 damsels then a week later I got a trigger fish and everything was fine. As far as acclimating I do the drip process usually for about 30 min. just yesterday I bought the shrimp and goby everything looks back to normal this morning plus I added a air stone. Salinity. 023 ammonia none detectable ph 8.2 nitrite non detectable nitrate 5
 

vetteguy53081

Well known Member and monster tank lover
View Badges
Joined
Aug 11, 2013
Messages
108,086
Reaction score
242,646
Location
Wisconsin -
Rating - 100%
17   0   0
I would verify your readings with a sample to pet store and also the salinity. What filtration do you have and what is tank temps which Will affect oxygen levels.
 

TOP 10 Trending Threads

WHAT AMOUNT OF LIVE ROCK AND SAND SHOULD BE PRIORITIZED FOR OPTIMAL BIODIVERSITY/FILTRATION?

  • 100% live rock + bagged sand

    Votes: 34 28.1%
  • 100% dry rock + 100% live sand

    Votes: 41 33.9%
  • 50/50 live/dry rock, 50/50 live/bagged sand

    Votes: 27 22.3%
  • 75% live rock, 25% live sand

    Votes: 11 9.1%
  • 25% live rock, 75% live sand

    Votes: 8 6.6%
Back
Top