Dead Damsel

So i come home from work yesterday and i noticed my lights did not turn on with the timer....dont ask me why. So i turn the lights on and no fish come up. 3,4,5 hours later and still no fish. Yellow tail damsel must of buried himself alive! Now my tank is in week four of cycling and just put fish in last weekend. All params are good. ammonia 0, nitrate 0, nitite 0, ph 8.3. salinity 1.025. dont uderstand why this happened, he was eating just fine the day before.

 

damsels do not bury themselves. he's probably hiding out in the rocks.

 

ya water temp is between 78-80. just stoped by my house for lunch and found damsel dead under a rock in back of tank. cant reach it without movin like 40 lbs of rock....is it bad if i leave the dead fish in water? i never saw an ammonia spike....would this dead fish help my cycle or just poison my water?:-/

 

I'd change the drtybngwtr;D

 

hahahaha.....;D. u think i shud do a small water change? my tank is 30 gallons...what percentage shud i change? remember its only been runnin for 4 weeks.

 

You need to take the fish out....this should have been the first thing you did. Why woudl you want to leave him in there? Is there a white string like coming out of him?