Help please!

Discussion in 'ASAP' started by pwoller, May 15, 2009.

to remove this notice and enjoy 3reef content with less ads. 3reef membership is free.

  1. pwoller

    pwoller Spaghetti Worm

    Joined:
    Feb 19, 2007
    Messages:
    190
    Location:
    Indy
    So I have been fighting ich or what I thought was ich, maybe velvet and had all of the fish quarantined in hyposalinity. Today when I came home from work 3 of the fish were dead and the other 2 were breathing heavily and laying on their sides. I pulled them out and put them in a bucket half full of the water they were in and half full with water from my main tank. I added a powerhead and heater and both perked up really quickly. I filled another tank with water fom the main tank and put them in it. Here are the symptoms: Spots, kind of looks like ich but alot of the white spots are really small, kind of dusting. Then the scales on the wrasse are standing up. I have never seen anything like this. What could be going on?
     
  2. Click Here!

  3. pwoller

    pwoller Spaghetti Worm

    Joined:
    Feb 19, 2007
    Messages:
    190
    Location:
    Indy
  4. pwoller

    pwoller Spaghetti Worm

    Joined:
    Feb 19, 2007
    Messages:
    190
    Location:
    Indy
  5. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

    Joined:
    Jul 9, 2008
    Messages:
    5,958
    Location:
    Chesterfield, VA
    is it dropsy i dont even know if you can get that in salt.
    if you fill out the link in my signature we can help more
     
  6. pwoller

    pwoller Spaghetti Worm

    Joined:
    Feb 19, 2007
    Messages:
    190
    Location:
    Indy
    **** thats what I thought it was. I think I have 2 issues. Ich or velvet. Then I over fed in the QT and had an ammonia spike. Dropsy.
     
  7. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

    Joined:
    Jul 9, 2008
    Messages:
    5,958
    Location:
    Chesterfield, VA
    i would do a big water change, and add some live rock permeantly for the qt, ammonia is very posioness
     
  8. Click Here!

  9. pwoller

    pwoller Spaghetti Worm

    Joined:
    Feb 19, 2007
    Messages:
    190
    Location:
    Indy
    Temperature: 78
    PH: 8
    Ammonia:
    Nitrite:
    Nitrate:
    Salinity:1.010
    dKH/KH/Alkalinity:
    Magnesium:
    Calcium:
    Phosphate:
    Test kits you own:
    Liquid or Strips:
    Brand Name:
    Are they Expired?:


    Tank size?
    Estimated total system?

    Reef, fish only or, freshwater? QT

    Current inhabitants? What and how many?2
    Clean up crew?0

    How long has your tank been set-up?4 days

    Substrate.
    Type?None
    Depth?

    Live rock?None
    How much?
    Did you recently add some?

    Filtration.HOB, carbon
    Type?
    Protein skimmer?Non
    Do you wet or dry skim?
    Maintenance schedule for filtration?
    Drilled tank/hang on back overflow?
    Sump/refugium. What's in it and how much?
    Macro? What kind?

    Lighting.
    Lighting type?t10
    Age of bulbs?

    Feeding
    What? rods
    How much? Too much
    How often? daily

    Water change schedule.
    How much?Non yet
    How often?
    What salt brand?
    Water source?

    Additives/supplements used?

    Do you have a ground probe? No
    What kind of flow does your tank have? plenty
     
  10. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

    Joined:
    Jul 9, 2008
    Messages:
    5,958
    Location:
    Chesterfield, VA
    you have to fill it out lol well atleast the parameters for ammonia-nitrate


    whys the salinity so low, hypo? any other treatment your doing?
     
  11. pwoller

    pwoller Spaghetti Worm

    Joined:
    Feb 19, 2007
    Messages:
    190
    Location:
    Indy

    I took the tank down that had the ammonia spike. I filled a 20 with half new and half from the display water. LR in a qt? really? Why?
     
  12. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

    Joined:
    Jul 9, 2008
    Messages:
    5,958
    Location:
    Chesterfield, VA
    so theres a place for bacteria to live, to prevent ammonia and other spikes;)