DLock3d
New Member
Hello All,
I'm new to R2R but I've known about you all for a long time. I've kept fish for quite some time now. A large portion of that time I've kept and bred Discus. I got out of Discus a few years ago and went simple with an African tank. After that, I decided to set up a reef tank so I used the standard 75G. As we all know, you always want bigger so about 2 - 3 years ago I upgraded to a Planet Aquarium rimless 180G. After some initial success in my 180G, I've been struggling quite a bit lately keeping new fish alive. I've kept a pretty close eye on my water parameters and with the exception of a few small nitrate fluctuations, there haven't been any significant pH swings, nitrite, or ammonia readings. All of my corals are flourishing which makes me think it's a pathogen issue. I do have four fish that have made it through several die-offs. They consist of a purple tang, small to medium niger, a radiance wrasse, and yellow wrasse. I'll likely do a post in a more appropriate location of the forum when I have some additional time.
I've been thinking about taking out the 4 remaining fish and throwing them into a QT tank for 8 - 10 weeks so that the 180G can go fishless. Has anyone seen success with this sort of thing in the past in ridding a tank of pathogens? Has anyone else had frequent and consistent die-offs even with parameters testing out fine? I just bout a Neptune Apex and will likely install it this weekend to have another data point on pH and temperature.
I'm new to R2R but I've known about you all for a long time. I've kept fish for quite some time now. A large portion of that time I've kept and bred Discus. I got out of Discus a few years ago and went simple with an African tank. After that, I decided to set up a reef tank so I used the standard 75G. As we all know, you always want bigger so about 2 - 3 years ago I upgraded to a Planet Aquarium rimless 180G. After some initial success in my 180G, I've been struggling quite a bit lately keeping new fish alive. I've kept a pretty close eye on my water parameters and with the exception of a few small nitrate fluctuations, there haven't been any significant pH swings, nitrite, or ammonia readings. All of my corals are flourishing which makes me think it's a pathogen issue. I do have four fish that have made it through several die-offs. They consist of a purple tang, small to medium niger, a radiance wrasse, and yellow wrasse. I'll likely do a post in a more appropriate location of the forum when I have some additional time.
I've been thinking about taking out the 4 remaining fish and throwing them into a QT tank for 8 - 10 weeks so that the 180G can go fishless. Has anyone seen success with this sort of thing in the past in ridding a tank of pathogens? Has anyone else had frequent and consistent die-offs even with parameters testing out fine? I just bout a Neptune Apex and will likely install it this weekend to have another data point on pH and temperature.
