Help my Damsel!!

So i have a blue damsel in a ten gallon with 10 hermits, 2 turbos and 8lbs of live rock. My tank has been fine up to this point other than the immediate death of my chromis. So it has been three weeks exactly since i started my tank and for the last two weeks my damsel has been fine occasionally coming out from under the rocks but for the most part staying under. My water levels and salinity have been fine. So today and did my water changes and when i came back later to feed the damsel i noticed it on the outside of the tank barely staying afloat with no powe. I have quarantined and its not looking so strong. now its not eating and lips have turned black. Can anyone help. My salinity was high when i came back and i have since fixed it.

 

My nitrate was high before the water changes too.

 

you should not have fish in your tank if your tank is only 3 weeks old. it has not finshed cycling thats why your fish died

 

+2 still cycling, and nitrates and amonia probably high.

 

rookie

 

why was there a fish in there in the first place???? You don't need fish in your tank to start the cycle. The live rock will do that on it's own. Some people put frozen shrimp in or a piece of dead saltwater fish from dinner or something like that to start the cycle but putting a fish in is cruel in my opinion. doing this is the equivilent of putting a human in a room and depleting the room of all but 1 percent of the oxygen and telling the guy "good luck, I hope you make it, if you make it a couple of weeks I'll slowly start giving you oxygen again". I'm sorry for my rant but the advice you got was wrong.

 

Theres alot of live bacteria products out there to cycle tank in just a few days. I've had first hand experience with a few. Able to fully stock a tank in a few weeks with no amm,nitrate, nitrate spikes.

 

turbo start does work well tho

 

Yeah, your tanks was not done cycling.