Morning Catastrophe

_cpate3_ · Feb 21, 2024

This morning I woke up to my ATO failed, salinity at 1.021 and kalkwasser EVERYWHERE I could barely see the fish. Everyone was at the top gasping for air. Water changed 50% to get the kalk out and reset salinity. Then during that process my dottybsck and Midas blenny got stuck in their caves and didn’t swim out. The dottyback flopped herself through a hole in the rock and into the water but has 3-4 bruises on her side and swam into another cave and haven’t seen her since. The Midas blenny was in the cave and I haven’t seen this whole morning. The tank is cleared up and back to 1.025sg. What should I do about the injured fish? Is there a way to help them recover from physical injuries or do I just have to let nature run its course

Troylee · Feb 21, 2024

Just give it time! Not much you can do besides a water change like you did… any idea how high your ph got? That’s the biggest factor here as the fish might have gotten ph burn but you could be lucky and it just precipitated “the cloud you saw” and didn’t shoot numbers up to high.. if your ph is still very high you can dose some vinegar to bring it down. Anything over 8.6 I would dose vinegar myself

_cpate3_ · Feb 21, 2024

Troylee said:
Just give it time! Not much you can do besides a water change like you did… any idea how high your ph got? That’s the biggest factor here as the fish might have gotten ph burn but you could be lucky and it just precipitated “the cloud you saw” and didn’t shoot numbers up to high.. if your ph is still very high you can dose some vinegar to bring it down. Anything over 8.6 I would dose vinegar myself

I will have to check that, I could hear it happening as I woke up so I caught it as soon as the ATO failed I don’t think the kalk would’ve had time to soak in but I’ll check