I had two clown fish in my new tank for almost a month now. I acquired the fish as quarantined from Dr. Reef. Tank was cycled with live sand, dry rock, Dr. Tim’s bacteria and anmmonia and the only other thing I’ve added since is copepods and phytoplankton from algae barn.
My fish seemed totally fine before I went to bed and the next time I saw them they were laying together dead. Maybe 15 hours later.
My parameters seem almost perfect from what I understand. I’m using the Red Sea master kit.
Salinity 35 ppt
Temp 78f
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 20 (higher than I prefer I thought this was acceptable for a FOWLR?)
Ph 8
I did top off my tank before bed with about 2 gallons of RODI water into my 55 gallon tank. My only suspicion is that my chlorine filter went bad, but I just received chlorine test from BRS today and they indicate my RODI water is chlorine free.
I have a firefish and royal gramma scheduled to be delivered in two weeks from Dr. Reef but I’m not sure if I should put them in this tank unless I figure this out.
I feed frozen LRS Reef Frenzy from a shot glass and turkey baster that I rinse after each use.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My fish seemed totally fine before I went to bed and the next time I saw them they were laying together dead. Maybe 15 hours later.
My parameters seem almost perfect from what I understand. I’m using the Red Sea master kit.
Salinity 35 ppt
Temp 78f
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 20 (higher than I prefer I thought this was acceptable for a FOWLR?)
Ph 8
I did top off my tank before bed with about 2 gallons of RODI water into my 55 gallon tank. My only suspicion is that my chlorine filter went bad, but I just received chlorine test from BRS today and they indicate my RODI water is chlorine free.
I have a firefish and royal gramma scheduled to be delivered in two weeks from Dr. Reef but I’m not sure if I should put them in this tank unless I figure this out.
I feed frozen LRS Reef Frenzy from a shot glass and turkey baster that I rinse after each use.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.