We have recently started our setup again and now that the system is completely cycled all of our fish have died one by one. Today when I was getting the last one to go out of the tank I noticed a worm in thw net with it. Is this normal? Is their something I did wrong? What could be going on?
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!!! Welcome back to the hobby and Welcome to R2R !!! Some pictures will help. Also, how long you let the tank cycle?
Cycle has been going for a month and all our levels are normal. This worm has been tossed but will post a pic if we find another one. All the fish were damsels of one sort or another and were put in to help cycle
Putting new fish into new tank without qt period, mistake #1
Putting damsels in to help with cycle mistake #2
If all levels are good than I would suspect brooklynella, since it happened to all so quickly. Or maybe the salinity level at your lfs is/was too low and shocked your fish
Putting damsels in to help with cycle mistake #2
If all levels are good than I would suspect brooklynella, since it happened to all so quickly. Or maybe the salinity level at your lfs is/was too low and shocked your fish
Captain Quint
Plank Owner of the Orca
Welcome to R2R ANDREWNICOLE although I hate it to be under these circumstances.
Pics would be nice as well as a panel of parameters and cycle time. I assume someone told you to cycle with fishes, but there are many fishless methods which can be used.
Pics would be nice as well as a panel of parameters and cycle time. I assume someone told you to cycle with fishes, but there are many fishless methods which can be used.
Rcpilot
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Best thing to do now, is wait about 80 days. Don't buy anymore fish or animals. No crabs. No snails - nothing. Let the tank sit. If there's any ich or velvet parasites in the tank - running without any fish to host those parasites will kill them. There's plenty of rotten organics in the tank to keep the bacteria cycle going.
Be patient. It will settle out in a couple months. Do a water change once a month for now. After the new year, test your water and report back.
Be patient. It will settle out in a couple months. Do a water change once a month for now. After the new year, test your water and report back.
Oscaror
Back In It
Welcome to R2R, I'm sorry about your tank
I hope you find a solution or explanation soon, the people here should be able to help. Unfortunately I don't know much about fish and disease
MnFish1
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Actually - wouldn't now be the time to add snails, crabs, etc - since they won't allow ich/velvet to multiply. I dont think there is anything wrong with adding CUC to a tank while its fallow - probably the best time to do it. Of course watching that they are fed 'something' but not much.
Rcpilot
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I wouldn't, but that's just me. I'm patient. Don't see any reason to rush anything if the OP is already having problems.
Personal preference, I guess.
It's only been a month. I wouldn't put anything in a tank until it was at least 2--3 months old. I'd just crank it up, let it all sit and marinate together for a couple months.
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Welcome to reef2reef. Sorry about your losses
Just found this one in the live sand we had bought
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I’m fallow in my 90-gallon for the third (3rd!!) time now. Obviously my advice—learned the hard way— is “Do it right, or you’ll be doing it again.”
Rcpilot
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Yeah, I was thinking ich and velvet. In my mind, if you can starve a pest out of your tank without too much brain damage... I'd do that before I'd use any chemicals.
Hard lessons here. I hate to see the animals suffer. Sure do wish more people would QT correctly from the start. I'm convinced it would save the lives of countless fish and corals.
