Losing A fish a day...

[DJ Monty]

Your in central FL right?

I'm over on Merritt Island..On the river opposite Cocoa Beach..

 

[DJ Monty]

I'm under the impression a lot was added in a short time. I'd guess your water parameters are off? Ammonia?

Until today my Nitrites,Nitrates & Amonia have been at 0-...

I was saying your Nitrites. With the presence of nitrites your tank has not cycled fully imo.
What kind of water are you using? Rodi or tap?

I'm using Ro/Di. I make it fresh & my TDS coming out is zero..

 

[jsker]

I'm over on Merritt Island..On the river opposite Cocoa Beach..

I was just there today off of A1A and Lorie Wilson park , speaking with another R2R member that asked me to come over and look at his tank about the same thing. The reason for my question of were you live is that he and his neighbor are experiencing the same thing of a die off. I have been going through a die of of my corals.
What he did is to do a large water change and clean his sump. Myself my issue has been that I reduced my speed of my bio pellet reactor and that caused a phosphate spike. My gut is say it is something else environment with the change of the weather. Call me crazy that is what I am thinking right now. I also cleaned my sump yesterday and I am testing my phosphates in a few minutes. This happen to me last year an I lost a bunch of fish in mid october and early November. I stopped adding fish and wait till December last year before I started adding fish again. It seems, and I am guessing right now that something stressing the fish almost like a red tide.

What has you phosphates been running at?

 

[DJ Monty]

I'm the guy that was there this morning

 

[Bdog4u2]

Probably dealing with a parasite since all your fish are dying but your inverts are doing fine so I doubt your water quality is the reason.

 

[Alfrareef]

Since you can't get a good pic, google for Brooklynella pics and see if it match the patchs you've seen over your fish.
If it's brooklynella you must take serious action.

 

[jasonb87]

Velvet or flukes?

 

[jsker]

I'm the guy that was there this morning

LOL ROTF, you got me. It was a pleasure meeting you sir and now I know who I am chatting with. I have been following your build thread for a couple of months now. Both your guys have some really nice build.

I just checked my Po4's and I am now running a .02ppm red sea. I am going to still dose .5 of a dose of lanthanum chloride, I sent of all the information that was spoke about to @beachsidereefer via pm

From what we spoke about, I would let things ride for a weak. I you case I would stick with your weekly 10% water change until the tank is at least 90 days so that one can get the bio load established. I have found that it takes 10 to 14 day for each adjustment to take effect. I would also suggest dosing with your food some vitium m and some amino acids to keep the fish immune systems strong. I use seachem focus to bind the acids and vitamin to the frozen food. My fish are little spoiled and I only feed frozen and nori.

 

[jsker]

also if you would like, mix in some metroplex with the above suggestion.

 

[Armydogracing]

I'm the guy that was there this morning

Before I saw this I was about to say geez its an epidemic in Florida must be something in the air lol

 

[jsker]

Before I saw this I was about to say geez its an epidemic in Florida must be something in the air lol

it a Florida reef conspiracy

I wish I had more of a biologist background and I am going to speak with one tomorrow to see what is up.

 

[Armydogracing]

Haha I used to live in Orlando near UCF I can see how it could be haha jk

 

[DJ Monty]

Since you can't get a good pic, google for Brooklynella pics and see if it match the patchs you've seen over your fish.
If it's brooklynella you must take serious action.

It didn't look anything like that.. It was on very small patch on one side & it was pretty bright...

 

[themcnertney]

Please list the fish you lost and the fish you still have.

 

[DJ Monty]

Just checked out lots of pictures & it doesn't look like velvet...

 

[DJ Monty]

Please list the fish you lost and the fish you still have.

I lost 3 Blue Green Chromis
2 Blue Reef Chromis
1 Firetail
1 Percula Clown
1 Yellow Wrasse
I guess I lost 8 fish not 9 as I thought earlier.. Apparently I just can't count..

The ones I have left are 3 Percula Clowns & 1 Yellow Coris Wrasse.. They all look really clean & healthy.

 

[melypr1985]

I have a 220g with a 55g sump/refugium & Bubble Magnus Curve DC9 Skimmer & Tunze ATO... There is around 200lb of rock in the tank..All set up a couple of months ago..Everything has been running great until about a week ago when we found a dead fish.. Following day another one was missing . That's the way it was all week including today.. Some days we find dead sometimes I know the shrimp are eating them..Water tests like this
Nitrite 0.05
Nitrate 0
PH 8.26
Alk 6 Dkh
Salinity 1.024
Amonia .02

Can anyone point me in the right direction please.. I have 3 very small Percula clowns left & 1 Yellow Coris Wrasse... All the fish that were lost were under 2" in length...
Please help..

I"ll be honest and say that I didn't read the whole thread. I just want to share my thoughts on what has happened here. 1. Your tank wasn't mature enough to handle that large of a bioload that quickly. Introducing your stock slowly is very important with a new tank. The presence of ammonia and nitrite are what tells me this. 2. The chromi sounds like it had a bacterial infection. (fungus is not something found in saltwater) Chromis are very prone to this and Uronema which can kill them pretty quickly at times. 3. The other fish likely died of a parasite if you haven't used a QT with your additions. Without pictures it would be very difficult to diagnose the disease, but I can tell you that it was probably velvet or maybe flukes. Velvet especially can kill very quickly and sometimes without showing much of a sign at all. Visit the Fish Disease part of the forum and read through the stickies there for more info on how to QT properly and how to treat the most common diseases.

Best of luck! I'm sure somebody has already stated all I just did so I'm sorry if I'm repeating others.

 

[jsker]

I"ll be honest and say that I didn't read the whole thread. I just want to share my thoughts on what has happened here. 1. Your tank wasn't mature enough to handle that large of a bioload that quickly. Introducing your stock slowly is very important with a new tank. The presence of ammonia and nitrite are what tells me this. 2. The chromi sounds like it had a bacterial infection. (fungus is not something found in saltwater) Chromis are very prone to this and Uronema which can kill them pretty quickly at times. 3. The other fish likely died of a parasite if you haven't used a QT with your additions. Without pictures it would be very difficult to diagnose the disease, but I can tell you that it was probably velvet or maybe flukes. Velvet especially can kill very quickly and sometimes without showing much of a sign at all. Visit the Fish Disease part of the forum and read through the stickies there for more info on how to QT properly and how to treat the most common diseases.

Best of luck! I'm sure somebody has already stated all I just did so I'm sorry if I'm repeating others.

yes mam

 

[mookinpie]

Ammonia is the number one killer to all fish [emoji226] any is no good if the tanks a month old that's to soon to stalk anything I don't recommend anything for up to five months and even at that I'd add only little at a time stop killing our reefs and know what your doing before starting a reef tank always start small like a ten gallon before going bigger!! So you know how to take care of your reef tank..

 

[mookinpie]

Donate your live stock to lps and uninstall your reef tank until you know what your doing