All is lost, what should I do now?

[Breadbox]

This is hopefully the last time I'll post about this( I have 2 threads previously, detailing how it started and progressed), in a span of 4-5 days, I have lost 5 out of 6 fishes, with the last clown fish hanging onto dear life.

1 Midas blenny and 1 clownfish just died, l narrowed it down to something attacking their gills, either Velvet or ammonia burns I believe, I actually did a 80% water change with rodi yesterday(as i detected high ammonia in my qt) yet the midas and a clown still died less than 24 hours later.

I dropped my last surviving clown into the DT as I know the ammonia is zero there. Is there anything I can do to help a fish with ammonia burnt gills? For velvet I know there's not much I could do at this point.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Do a fallow

This is hopefully the last time I'll post about this( I have 2 threads previously, detailing how it started and progressed), in a span of 4-5 days, I have lost 5 out of 6 fishes, with the last clown fish hanging onto dear life.

1 Midas blenny and 1 clownfish just died, l narrowed it down to something attacking their gills, either Velvet or ammonia burns I believe, I actually did a 80% water change with rodi yesterday(as i detected high ammonia in my qt) yet the midas and a clown still died less than 24 hours later.

I dropped my last surviving clown into the DT as I know the ammonia is zero there. Is there anything I can do to help a fish with ammonia burnt gills? For velvet I know there's not much I could do at this point.

meaning NO fish for 45-60 days at 80.5 degrees
Inverts can remain. Do a light siphoning of surfaces at day 30 do remove any dead cysts/trophants.
start even with a black Molly to confirm tank is disease free

 

[Arego]

I don't know, I'm just here to say I'm sorry this happened and really hope you get it sorted out. Rooting for you.

 

[Projects with Sam]

Sorry for your losses. Why all the separate posts?

 

[Hoodstream]

I don’t know how the ammonia got so high I started going through your other threads. Maybe just take a break and do more research. I’ve had ammonia spikes but was able to notice the stress and with frequent testing have been able to fix it without any issue. However losing that many fish something was seriously wrong. I don’t know your tank size or if it was actually cycled but Ive used the treatments you stated and never had it disrupt my bacteria cycle in QT’s.

My best advice is to maybe step back and learn more. I’m not going to bash you for your fish dying, things happen. But most novice-advance reefers don’t make this mistake or have this issue.

I think it’s humbling forsure but I’d take this time to retrace your steps and learn from it and better understand how you got here, and what went wrong. Best bet 100%.

QT Clown, Start Over.

cheers and goodluck, I’m really sorry about the fish loss.

 

[Udest]

Agreed on the fallow period it should give you time to figure out what the heck happened. You said your tank was several months old right?

 

[Unitylover]

use copper for the clown, hopefully he'll pull through. Dump some bacteria from IO or something to help get ammonia down in other tanks. Also what size was your tank? might've been slightly overstocked (as ammonia is WAY more toxic in saltwater)

 

[threebuoys]

I don't recall if parasites were confirmed in the earlier threads or not. The level of ammonia you experienced may have burnt the gills of your fish beyond repair even though you moved the fish to a tank with 0 ammonia.

If parasites were likely in the tank, fallow will be necessary.

I suggest in the future, if you need to start a thread to seek help, try to keep all of your responses in the initial thread. That will make it easier for readers to backtrack to refresh their memory of the sequence of events and earlier discoveries along the way.

Sorr for your losses.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I don’t know how the ammonia got so high I started going through your other threads. Maybe just take a break and do more research. I’ve had ammonia spikes but was able to notice the stress and with frequent testing have been able to fix it without any issue. However losing that many fish something was seriously wrong. I don’t know your tank size or if it was actually cycled but Ive used the treatments you stated and never had it disrupt my bacteria cycle in QT’s.

My best advice is to maybe step back and learn more. I’m not going to bash you for your fish dying, things happen. But most novice-advance reefers don’t make this mistake or have this issue.

I think it’s humbling forsure but I’d take this time to retrace your steps and learn from it and better understand how you got here, and what went wrong. Best bet 100%.

QT Clown, Start Over.

cheers and goodluck, I’m really sorry about the fish loss.

Ammonia:
-Lack of maintenance
-Water source
-Over feeding
-Food utself
-Filtration issue
-Dead xarcass hidden in tank
-Children adding substance to sump

 

[Breadbox]

Thanks everyone for the advice thus far, i was doing 50% water change every week and hadn't have any issue for over a month, the initial ammonia level has decreased and the cycle is completed after 2-3 weeks of setting the wt up.
As soon I noticed the fishes breathing quickly I did even more water changes, unfortunately the water changes did not stop the deaths.

I had a old seachem ammonia alert badge that didn't work and did not suspect ammonia to be a possible primary cause initially.