Hi all,
I'd appreciate some advice here. In February this year, I got my tank back up and running after moving. For the time being most of my rock was in a temporary holding tank.
For the last two months I have been trying to add some tangs and clowns, but I have lost 6 clowns already and 1 tang now and I have no idea why.
We have had some power failures (local government problem - power goes off for 2-3 hours at a time once or twice a day) but there hasn't been very wide temperature swings. My return pumps have always been on backup-power. I have now (today) installed a 5.5kwh lithium battery backed solar inverter to exclude this as a possible cause.
My parameters:
Ammonia: 0
No2: 0
No3: 4
kH: 7.5
PO4: 0
Salinity is 1.026 / 35ppt
The display is about 375l (100gal). I do a 100l water change once a week (25gal). My STC1000 temperature controller is set to heat when temperature goes 0.5 degrees (C) below 25C (77F) and the chiller kicks in at 25.7 degrees (C) (78.26F).
I am not dosing anything or adding any additives at the moment as I don't know what to do. My RO/DI water is still 0 TDS. I mix in a 240l trash can downstairs and pump the water up. I have banned housekeeping from spraying anything in my office where the tank is standing except squirt some laminate cleaner on the floor once a week. The glass and canopy stays closed always except when I feed.
I run seachem Phosguard in 1 re-actor and seachem carbon in another which I change once every 3 weeks or so. And I have a bubble magus curve 3.5 protein skimmer.
I have 2 return pumps, one goes through my 54w UV and the other goes through the chiller unit.
1. I bought two clowns, one died first, then the next.
2. I replaced these with another two, and one more died
3. I got a another to replace the one that died and then the other one died
4. Then I got another to replace that one and the previous one died again
5. Today the last one died (he wasn't eating well since the day I got him).
The blue regal tangs I had made it a long time (I got them in May), but one of their noses turned a little white. Today I lost one of them.
What I currently I still have left:
1 x Diamond Goby
2 x Banggai Cardinals
1 x Chromis
Other Livestock:
1 x sea urchin
3 x snails
3 x cleaner shrimp
2 x blood red fire shrimp
1 x anemone
I have 2 wavemakers, a Jebao MLW-20 and Jebao MLW-30. They're both on "Random" modes. On advice of a friend I have turned them down to 70% of their power.
Lights is a 6-tube T5 unit. Blues come on at 14:00, Whites at 15:00. Whites switch off at 23:00 blues switch off at 24:00. Frequently the room lights are on before this but not always.
I feed the frozen (Ocean Nutrition) foods once a day (at night). I will feed half a block of Brine Shrimp or half a block of Mysis normally. Tried adding garlic to the food to get the clown that didn't eat to eat but it didn't work. LFS recommended bio viv HUFA when the blue tang's nose went white which I mixed with the food. For the food I normally defrost in a shotglass, mix it with a little water from the tank and pour down in front of the wavemaker to disperse.
I have also added a titanium grounding pin to the sump on advice from LFS.
The blue regal tang I have left's nose is still a little white. The clown was alive but swimming frantically this late-morning before I left for work, but when I came back he was disappeared. The blue regal's body's was behind a rock on the sand but when I went to fetch a net to get him out the shrimp dragged him somewhere to finish off. The other bodies were never found (just 1 skeleton). Nothing in the overflow at all.
All the fish came from my LFS who are marine specialists and I don't normally have problems. They look after their livestock and those clowns were in their tanks for weeks without issue.
All fish were drip-acclimated for 1 hour (no quarantine as there isn't much in the tank yet - but I am considering setting up a QT system now).
When I got the tangs I did 4 days of metroplex+focus on advice from LFS. My other tank (which has only got a damsel and regal tang in) is fine - water change for that tank comes from the same system.
If you can please help. I just downsized my 3 tropical tanks to 1 tropical tank which proceeded to crack while trying to deal with all the marine tank loss. I am struggling a little bit to see the light at the end of this tunnel.
Thank you in advance (sorry for the long text - just wasn't sure what was important and what not).
This is a photo of my tank taken just now:
This is a video of my clown that died while I was away today's behaviour this morning:
I'd appreciate some advice here. In February this year, I got my tank back up and running after moving. For the time being most of my rock was in a temporary holding tank.
For the last two months I have been trying to add some tangs and clowns, but I have lost 6 clowns already and 1 tang now and I have no idea why.
We have had some power failures (local government problem - power goes off for 2-3 hours at a time once or twice a day) but there hasn't been very wide temperature swings. My return pumps have always been on backup-power. I have now (today) installed a 5.5kwh lithium battery backed solar inverter to exclude this as a possible cause.
My parameters:
Ammonia: 0
No2: 0
No3: 4
kH: 7.5
PO4: 0
Salinity is 1.026 / 35ppt
The display is about 375l (100gal). I do a 100l water change once a week (25gal). My STC1000 temperature controller is set to heat when temperature goes 0.5 degrees (C) below 25C (77F) and the chiller kicks in at 25.7 degrees (C) (78.26F).
I am not dosing anything or adding any additives at the moment as I don't know what to do. My RO/DI water is still 0 TDS. I mix in a 240l trash can downstairs and pump the water up. I have banned housekeeping from spraying anything in my office where the tank is standing except squirt some laminate cleaner on the floor once a week. The glass and canopy stays closed always except when I feed.
I run seachem Phosguard in 1 re-actor and seachem carbon in another which I change once every 3 weeks or so. And I have a bubble magus curve 3.5 protein skimmer.
I have 2 return pumps, one goes through my 54w UV and the other goes through the chiller unit.
1. I bought two clowns, one died first, then the next.
2. I replaced these with another two, and one more died
3. I got a another to replace the one that died and then the other one died
4. Then I got another to replace that one and the previous one died again
5. Today the last one died (he wasn't eating well since the day I got him).
The blue regal tangs I had made it a long time (I got them in May), but one of their noses turned a little white. Today I lost one of them.
What I currently I still have left:
1 x Diamond Goby
2 x Banggai Cardinals
1 x Chromis
Other Livestock:
1 x sea urchin
3 x snails
3 x cleaner shrimp
2 x blood red fire shrimp
1 x anemone
I have 2 wavemakers, a Jebao MLW-20 and Jebao MLW-30. They're both on "Random" modes. On advice of a friend I have turned them down to 70% of their power.
Lights is a 6-tube T5 unit. Blues come on at 14:00, Whites at 15:00. Whites switch off at 23:00 blues switch off at 24:00. Frequently the room lights are on before this but not always.
I feed the frozen (Ocean Nutrition) foods once a day (at night). I will feed half a block of Brine Shrimp or half a block of Mysis normally. Tried adding garlic to the food to get the clown that didn't eat to eat but it didn't work. LFS recommended bio viv HUFA when the blue tang's nose went white which I mixed with the food. For the food I normally defrost in a shotglass, mix it with a little water from the tank and pour down in front of the wavemaker to disperse.
I have also added a titanium grounding pin to the sump on advice from LFS.
The blue regal tang I have left's nose is still a little white. The clown was alive but swimming frantically this late-morning before I left for work, but when I came back he was disappeared. The blue regal's body's was behind a rock on the sand but when I went to fetch a net to get him out the shrimp dragged him somewhere to finish off. The other bodies were never found (just 1 skeleton). Nothing in the overflow at all.
All the fish came from my LFS who are marine specialists and I don't normally have problems. They look after their livestock and those clowns were in their tanks for weeks without issue.
All fish were drip-acclimated for 1 hour (no quarantine as there isn't much in the tank yet - but I am considering setting up a QT system now).
When I got the tangs I did 4 days of metroplex+focus on advice from LFS. My other tank (which has only got a damsel and regal tang in) is fine - water change for that tank comes from the same system.
If you can please help. I just downsized my 3 tropical tanks to 1 tropical tank which proceeded to crack while trying to deal with all the marine tank loss. I am struggling a little bit to see the light at the end of this tunnel.
Thank you in advance (sorry for the long text - just wasn't sure what was important and what not).
This is a photo of my tank taken just now:
This is a video of my clown that died while I was away today's behaviour this morning: