EMERGENCY!

Congaken · Jul 9, 2016

My 10 fusion all of a sudden has fish struggling/dying?...all parameters fine yesterday...put in new biocube skimmer...also had been bubbling tank...this morning...royal gramma, fire fish on the bottom, don't see tailspot at all...inverts (shrimp, corals seem OK) but xenia looking saggy and bad...other soft and hard corals OK... pH 7.8...basically where its been...HELP!

twilliard · Jul 9, 2016

Have you checked amonia?

120reefkeeper · Jul 9, 2016

I would do an emergency water change 50% if possible. Save some of the changed water for more in depth testing . If not already in the system you can also drop in a bag of carbon. Carbon will suck up things that may have inadvertently gotten into the tank.

Duke4Life · Jul 9, 2016

Any chance for something to entered the water through the air?

twilliard · Jul 9, 2016

Sounds like a contaminant to me!
Maybe even a 75% water change but amonia will tell you if the bacteria has been killed off

Congaken · Jul 9, 2016

twilliard said:
Have you checked amonia?

ZERO

twilliard · Jul 9, 2016

Water change time!

Congaken · Jul 9, 2016

120reefkeeper said:
I would do an emergency water change 50% if possible. Save some of the changed water for more in depth testing . If not already in the system you can also drop in a bag of carbon. Carbon will suck up things that may have inadvertently gotten into the tank.

DID THE WATER CHANGE...ALSO HAVE A WOODEN AIR STONE ATTACHED TO MAIN PUMP...COVERED TANK, NOTHING IN AIR...CARBON IS IN THERE...THINKING SOMETHING HAPPENED OVER NIGHT...NO OUTAGE...???

Duke4Life · Jul 9, 2016

Were all the fish quarintined?

Congaken · Jul 9, 2016

Duke4Life said:
Were all the fish quarintined?

YES...AND ALL WERE DOING FINE FOR A MONTH OR TWO OR WAY MORE...NEVER HAD A SPOT...

Diesel · Jul 9, 2016

You said you had a wood air stone attached to your return pump, can you show us a picture of that?
And how long did you had that?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Jul 9, 2016

Could be something died and released some toxins to the water. GAC is the main line defense for such a possibility if there is no ammonia. Add more.

Congaken · Jul 9, 2016

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
Could be something died and released some toxins to the water. GAC is the main line defense for such a possibility if there is no ammonia. Add more.

WHAT IS GAC?

twilliard · Jul 9, 2016

Grandular activated carbon

Congaken · Jul 9, 2016

Diesel said:
You said you had a wood air stone attached to your return pump, can you show us a picture of that?
And how long did you had that?

CAN'T DO A PIC RIGHT NOW...ITS BELOW THE INTAKE IN THE SUMP...ALSO PUT IN PHYTOPLEX LAST NIGHT...

Congaken · Jul 9, 2016

Congaken said:
WHAT IS GAC?

DONE...

Congaken · Jul 9, 2016

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
Could be something died and released some toxins to the water. GAC is the main line defense for such a possibility if there is no ammonia. Add more.

THE GRAMMA LOOKS A LITTLE BETTER...SHOULD I KEEP THE BUBBLELS GOING?...FOR 02?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Jul 9, 2016

Hard to say. Maybe they helped cause the problem by irritating something that released chemicals to the water.

Diesel · Jul 9, 2016

Congaken said:
CAN'T DO A PIC RIGHT NOW...ITS BELOW THE INTAKE IN THE SUMP...ALSO PUT IN PHYTOPLEX LAST NIGHT...

Let me understand this, a air stone under the intake of the return pump, for how long is this airstone running and the return pump sucking in air to the DT?
Is this part of the micronano's bubbling method?

maroun.c · Jul 9, 2016

Keep upbwith daily water changes and change carbon very day for few days to come till you at least pinpoint a cause or else those would be enough to deal with whatever in the water is killing your fish. Dosing bacteria might help repopulate your bacteria population just in case it's suffering as well.
Please explain the airline thing on return pump.