Lost my livestock!

[mrsmoose]

Ok I had the 150 gallon tall beautiful tank but not to great for the salt setup.way to hard to get spacing for my coral and not easy to get the lighting needed to the bottom of the tank. I have a friend with a 150 gallon standard that was not working for him for living space. So we decided to trade. I pulled out some unused aquariums out and pumped my water off the top of the salt tank into bare bottom aquariums. I then dipped fish and moved to the 55 gallon. I then moved all the coral to my qt tank. I then pumped almost all the water left into a large tub and put the live rock there. I then moved the power heads and heater. Then I pulled out the sand crushed coral mix into a Rubbermaid. I had to do it this way because the new aquarium was going where the tall one was. The next morning ( the day we were swapping ) I get up and every fish in the holding aquarium was dead. I lost a naso tang, hippo tang ,yellow tang, coral beauty, red line angel, a pair of snowflake clowns, two decent size pj cardinals, fox face ,and a royal gramma. I was sick I actually sat in the floor and cried. So now I have this tank with a small damsel a chromis and the tomato clown that lived in the qt. I am trying to restock with out breaking the bank here at Christmas since I already lost a lot of money. So if you guys have anything for sale please let me know.

 

[arman]

You have to tank god that you know the reason why they died.
Having live creatures are always like this(death and life)

 

[mrsmoose]

I actually don't know why they died unless there was some kind of chemical in the aquarium that I did not know about.

 

[carlos4119]

I feel your pain lost all my sps. I added new sand to the refugium and apperantly that did it .

 

[hawkinsrgk]

Hi Molly. Did your corals make it?

 

[mrsmoose]

Yes my coral and shrimp are good I had them in a different tank it was just the fish that I moved in that one tank.

 

[authentic]

i lost some prized clowns on a move like yours,they died within 15-20 min from what i believe was the detritus in the tank getting mixed up and releasing toxic amounts of something very quickly
sorry for your losses

 

[kraftyforu]

What kind of filtration and stuff did you have on the tank with the fish?

 

[authentic]

it was plumbed into my main system but when i started removing rock etc to catch the fish just a short time in clouded water was enough to kill them...didnt have an airstone in the bucket i put them in which may have helped