They keep dying…

Scags02 · Mar 12, 2023

my fiancé and I started a new reef tank, we have 2 clowns, 1 cleaner shrimp and 3 bluer leg hermit crabs in a 29 gallon tank. Everything was thriving until…. Yesterday we got a diamond goby and a Midas blenny fish. The fish seemed really stressed and I fear my fiancé rushed the acclimation process. Long story short this morning the diamond goby is dried up on top of the tank and the blenny is at the bottom of the tank doa…. We did a water change everything seemed fine and we went ahead and got another diamond….. maybe too soon? Everything seemed fine until we just got home and now the clown fishies are at the top gasping diamond is gasping and the cleaner shrimp is alive but not moving. Only thing he said was the ph was too low…

blaxsun · Mar 12, 2023

If the fish are gasping it could be a lack of oxygen, but I'm just guessing at this point. Do you have supplemental flow in your tank, ie: wavemakers? It might be helpful to know all of your tank parameters as well, ie: salinity, temperature, pH, nitrates, phosphates, ammonia, etc. - in addition to what equipment and filtration you're using.

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Mar 12, 2023

Scags02 said:
diamond goby is dried up on top of the tank

He jumped. You need a lid.

Tcook · Mar 12, 2023

New tank? Too soon for sand sifters. Here’s a good article on them.

Valenciennea and the Sandsifting gobies; an in depth look

So, it seems there’s been a recent spike in people wanting Sand Sifting Gobies from these genera; - Koumansetta - Signigobius - Valenciennea (This is the biggest Genus I’ve seen people getting specimens from) - Amblygobius I figured it was time...

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Scags02 · Mar 12, 2023

Thank you! I’ll have to look more into them because we’ve only had an issue after introducing the goby

Scags02 · Mar 12, 2023

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal said:
He jumped. You need a lid.

That’s the thing we have one! Lol I’m thinking it must have been by the small space where the heater or the filter are! Poor little guy!

Scags02 · Mar 12, 2023

blaxsun said:
If the fish are gasping it could be a lack of oxygen, but I'm just guessing at this point. Do you have supplemental flow in your tank, ie: wavemakers? It might be helpful to know all of your tank parameters as well, ie: salinity, temperature, pH, nitrates, phosphates, ammonia, etc. - in addition to what equipment and filtration you're using.

We do have a wave maker yes, salinity is at 1.025, temperature is 78 and I’m not sure what the other readings are we decided to do a water change at this point…. Oh, nitrates and ammonia we have testers for not sure about phosphate. Any tester you recommend?

C4ctus99 · Mar 12, 2023

Amonia is a good one to check, salifert and Red Sea I think are decent test kit brands

C4ctus99 · Mar 12, 2023

Did you use #fishmedic?
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