bmooney31
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So I set up a 220 a few months ago, and moved all my fish and live rock from my existing tank to the new tank. The total volume is 320 gallons total with 150 of that was water from my previous tank and 200 of the 400 pounds of rock was existing as well. So the issue is every new fish that I've added to this tank has died with in two weeks. The five fish that I had in the old setup are fine and all have lived, it is only new fish that die. here is a lost of the fish I've lost.
2 blue jaw triggers (male)
1 Blue jaw trigger (Female)
1 christmas wrasse
1 racoon butterfly
1 clown trigger
None of them were added at the same time, and all have came from different LFS around town. The fish were all eating when I got them and looked healthy. But after about 5 days they develop a film that looks like their skin is sloughing off. then after a week they stop eating and then I find them dead. Its odd because they look and act fine then they get infected. All my parameters are at within a acceptable range.
Nitrites 0
ph 8.0
ammonia 0.00
phosphates .16
nitrates 16ppm
salinity 1.023
I also purchased a new bub for my UV and waited a few weeks before I purchased any new fish to let it do it's job and still the same issue happened with the clown trigger. The odd thing is that all the existing fish look fine. THey are a Blue tang, yellow tang, purple tang, coral beauty, porc puffer. I've done extensive research and I cant nail down what the parasite is, but I"m thinking it's oodinium or brooklynella. I just rigged up a new water change system for this set up to make them much easier, and I did a 50 gallon change on saturday and another 50 tonight. here are some pictures of what the fish looks like, sorry about the pictures not being right side up but you can see what I'm talking about. Does anyone have a idea as to what might be going on? Like I said I'm baffled.
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2 blue jaw triggers (male)
1 Blue jaw trigger (Female)
1 christmas wrasse
1 racoon butterfly
1 clown trigger
None of them were added at the same time, and all have came from different LFS around town. The fish were all eating when I got them and looked healthy. But after about 5 days they develop a film that looks like their skin is sloughing off. then after a week they stop eating and then I find them dead. Its odd because they look and act fine then they get infected. All my parameters are at within a acceptable range.
Nitrites 0
ph 8.0
ammonia 0.00
phosphates .16
nitrates 16ppm
salinity 1.023
I also purchased a new bub for my UV and waited a few weeks before I purchased any new fish to let it do it's job and still the same issue happened with the clown trigger. The odd thing is that all the existing fish look fine. THey are a Blue tang, yellow tang, purple tang, coral beauty, porc puffer. I've done extensive research and I cant nail down what the parasite is, but I"m thinking it's oodinium or brooklynella. I just rigged up a new water change system for this set up to make them much easier, and I did a 50 gallon change on saturday and another 50 tonight. here are some pictures of what the fish looks like, sorry about the pictures not being right side up but you can see what I'm talking about. Does anyone have a idea as to what might be going on? Like I said I'm baffled.
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