I have a very healthy pico 5g tank with a lot of coral and 2 clowns that have been thriving over the last 7 months. 2.5 months ago I setup a new 15g IM. After a couple weeks of cycling with bottled bacteria & a live blood red fire shrimp I added 3 anthias from my LFS (there was no detectable ammonia with my salifert kit). After 5 days, the fish became weak, and died. I waited another 3 weeks, added a couple snails, hermits and some coral, as well as 2 clowns. Same thing, after 1 week or so, they grew weak and inexplicably died. Waited 3 more weeks before adding another pair of clowns which again died after roughly 1 week. Any help is much appreciated!
Tank: IM 15 with dry rock from LFS
Light: Kessil a360x (ramp-up to 40% max from 9am to 9pm)
Flow: AI nero 5 at constant 15% strength
ATO: Tunze Osmolator
What lives:
ammonia:
tank pics:
Tank: IM 15 with dry rock from LFS
Light: Kessil a360x (ramp-up to 40% max from 9am to 9pm)
Flow: AI nero 5 at constant 15% strength
ATO: Tunze Osmolator
What lives:
- Blood red fire shrimp very healthy and happy, seems to be growing a lot.
- There are a large amount of small insect-like bugs running around the glass and the rock, they look like small white cockroaches
- 2 hermits and 2 snails have been doing good for over a month
- mushroom coral, a blastomussa, a nephtea, an octospawn (not too happy, I think my calcium and alk is a touch low) and a 3 kinds of zoa
- 3 anthias, 2 pairs of clowns
- I lost 1 torch (probably from adding too early to a tank not mature enough & with low C and alk)
- 3 zoas melted away
ammonia:
tank pics: