I’m very new to this hobby. My wife wanted a fish tank for Christmas, I figured if I’m going to have one I wanted a Marine aquarium so we went for it.
Tank info: 45g rimmed tank, live sand (Hawaiian black), dry live rock (40lbs), 2 fans for current, Comline 9001 skimmer, Eheim 200w heater, Aquatop Aquatic 4 stage canister filter (didn’t have room or money for a sump), AquaStar G5 light
We live cycled our tank with 2 damsel fish and the Microbacter Start nitrifying bacteria. Tank seemed to cycle fine I never had any amonia or nitrite spikes and the fish were thriving for about 2 weeks. We then added a Royal Granma and diamond goby. The Damsels (one domino and one 3 stripe) were initially aggressive but after about a week backed off. The guy at the fish store sold these to my wife and failed to tell us how aggressive they were.
All 4 fish were thriving in the tank. I was checking amonia, ph, nitrite, and nitrate every other day, and doing 3-4g water changes once a week for 2 weeks. Everything seemed fine.
Last weekend (Saturday) we added 2 clowns from our LFS (I think that’s the right acronym). On Monday both clowns, the gramma and goby were all dead. Tuesday night the domino damsel was acting off and Wednesday morning it was also dead. As of now the 3 stripe is still in the tank and acting normal. I never had any ammonia/nitrite spikes, temp fluctuations or power failures.
When I added the clowns I expected them to run and hide in the rock immediately like all the other fish did. They did not. They stayed near the surface or in the water column just swimming around. The damsels did not like them at first but I expected that by then. After the first day all the fish were swimming around and the clowns were rubbing on the other fish. We were so excited bc we thought they were all getting along and “playing”, if fish even do that.
After some research we’ve come to think it was ich, or brook. The domino had visible white spots all over it. The dead clown had a strange cloudy look to his color and kinda turned brown on the top. I purchased some Ich-X from a different LFS to try and help the 3 stripe, but have not been able to net it out of the tank yet. It’s still very quick. I dont want to put the Ich-X in the tank bc we want to have corals down the line.
I’ve now got a small 10g QT tank that I’ve set up for future use. What can I do about my tank tho? The parasite is in it (whatever it is). I don’t want to dismantle and start over but also don’t want to keep dooming fish to a sad death.
God bless whoever has the patients to read all this. I can get carried away with my words.
Tank info: 45g rimmed tank, live sand (Hawaiian black), dry live rock (40lbs), 2 fans for current, Comline 9001 skimmer, Eheim 200w heater, Aquatop Aquatic 4 stage canister filter (didn’t have room or money for a sump), AquaStar G5 light
We live cycled our tank with 2 damsel fish and the Microbacter Start nitrifying bacteria. Tank seemed to cycle fine I never had any amonia or nitrite spikes and the fish were thriving for about 2 weeks. We then added a Royal Granma and diamond goby. The Damsels (one domino and one 3 stripe) were initially aggressive but after about a week backed off. The guy at the fish store sold these to my wife and failed to tell us how aggressive they were.
All 4 fish were thriving in the tank. I was checking amonia, ph, nitrite, and nitrate every other day, and doing 3-4g water changes once a week for 2 weeks. Everything seemed fine.
Last weekend (Saturday) we added 2 clowns from our LFS (I think that’s the right acronym). On Monday both clowns, the gramma and goby were all dead. Tuesday night the domino damsel was acting off and Wednesday morning it was also dead. As of now the 3 stripe is still in the tank and acting normal. I never had any ammonia/nitrite spikes, temp fluctuations or power failures.
When I added the clowns I expected them to run and hide in the rock immediately like all the other fish did. They did not. They stayed near the surface or in the water column just swimming around. The damsels did not like them at first but I expected that by then. After the first day all the fish were swimming around and the clowns were rubbing on the other fish. We were so excited bc we thought they were all getting along and “playing”, if fish even do that.
After some research we’ve come to think it was ich, or brook. The domino had visible white spots all over it. The dead clown had a strange cloudy look to his color and kinda turned brown on the top. I purchased some Ich-X from a different LFS to try and help the 3 stripe, but have not been able to net it out of the tank yet. It’s still very quick. I dont want to put the Ich-X in the tank bc we want to have corals down the line.
I’ve now got a small 10g QT tank that I’ve set up for future use. What can I do about my tank tho? The parasite is in it (whatever it is). I don’t want to dismantle and start over but also don’t want to keep dooming fish to a sad death.
God bless whoever has the patients to read all this. I can get carried away with my words.