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Posted: August 28 2012 at 8:29am |
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I woke up this morning to a murky tank and can't figure out why? I lost a chromis and I don't want to loose any other fish. I haven't changed anything in the tank but I built some screen tops for my tank yesterday could this be the cause? Please help!
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 9:59am |
did you have some die off from your calupera? This tend to be a very common thing for them.
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 11:11am |
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+1 ^ a little while ago my tank crashed due to algae either dying or going sexual. I couldnt tell but it destroyed everything.
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 11:41am |
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All I have is chateo
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 12:31pm |
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what corals do you have? are you running ac or any other filter media?
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 12:52pm |
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No media, I have frogspawn, hammer, candy cane, and zoas!
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 12:57pm |
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Could you have possibly drop or knocked something in the water.
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 1:08pm |
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Nope not really anything close to do that. It's starting to clear up by its self. I don't know what it was but I lost a fish and I hope I don't lose another.
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 1:52pm |
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What is your ammonia, nitrate, and phosphates at?
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 1:58pm |
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Last time I checked was a couple of days ago there were at 0
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 2:12pm |
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Why No Carbon? Just wondering.
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 2:14pm |
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I am going to run carbon just haven't yet. My tank is only 2 months old so I have added a lot of things yet.
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 2:32pm |
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You should check those parameters because a cloudy tank can easily be a spike in ammonia nitarate and phosphates. And that would explain the fish death.
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 7:10pm |
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My tank did this two weeks ago. had aquatic come out and when i febreezed the house it almost crashed my tank ....went into a mini cycle, all good now but it was a scare! So if you have used fabreeze or any products in the room with the tank it will do it.
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 7:12pm |
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Nope havent used anything like that around it. That I know of, my wife could of! Right now the tank is looking normal but some of the corals are not extended like normal so tomorrow im going to get the water tested to see the outcome.
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 8:35pm |
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It could be a bacterial bloom and the reduced oxygen in the water caused the fish to die. It is common in new tanks.
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 8:36pm |
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That does make sense!
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 10:53pm |
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I speak with Josh often and as his tank is so new and he relies on LFS for testing and never has an exact reading provided to him , I would tend to guess that there is an issue with his water parameters that he is not aware of yet. FOLLOW what i have told you !! Water test test reveal tons of great info !!!!!
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 10:58pm |
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Thanks Kurt you have taught me everything I know. I appreciate the advice!
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Posted: August 30 2012 at 7:47pm |
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Josh all my advice is just my 02 , listen and read what all here have to teach. I would guess that 98-99% of the people here know way more than i do , I only consider myself an amature at best. But you are in the right place to learn from successfull reef keepers!!!!!
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