Bubbles??

Frop · Jul 27, 2016

Here is the thing. I got home today and my sump was low on water (I literally just got my salinity checker today to add more in safely) before I had the sump water level hardly moved. Seems like it drops 3x as fast now. Due to the water level being low on the pump air was being mixed in with the pump. I was getting a shower of bubbles with water. I noticed my scooter blenny was also dead

Do you think the bubbles caused his death? Maybe a lack of food if not. I just recently put a half bottle of tigger pods into my refugium.

I'm going to test all my parameters tonight. Also bought calcium to dose since last I checked it was low.

Animagus · Jul 27, 2016

From the looks of it starvation would be my guess. Was it eating any prepared foods at all?

Frop · Jul 27, 2016

Animagus said:
From the looks of it starvation would be my guess. Was it eating any prepared foods at all?

They said I could get a bottle of tigger pods and add them to chaeto. So that's what I did. I didn't have any prepared foods for him other than that.

ngvu1 · Jul 27, 2016

Salt water fish do not like micro bubbles like in case of the skimmer blowing bubbles to the DT. However, I have not seen a case where the micro bubbles kill a fish within a few hours.....

Frop · Jul 27, 2016

ngvu1 said:
Salt water fish do not like micro bubbles like in case of the skimmer blowing bubbles to the DT. However, I have not seen a case where the micro bubbles kill a fish within a few hours.....

Away from home about 9 1/2 hours. Maybe he just needed food.. :/ he was my second fish. I won't get another time soon.

Here are my levels. Temp is about 78f.

melypr1985 · Jul 27, 2016

scooter blennies need to eat constantly (just like mandarins). They have a very short digestive tract and even if you get them to eat frozen once a day they will slowly starve to death without a very large, and steady population of pods to eat. He very probably starved to death here. I'm very sorry sweetie, but in a tank that small and new, the scooter probably ate every pod in the tank within a couple days.