patrickboro Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 PLEASE HELP ME, My hippo tang for the past two-three days has been acting weird. He has been hiding all the time in a crack and it looks like he keeps running into the rock that hes in. He has also been breithing like crazy. I just got him out of the tank into a bucket and it looks like he cant swim... he keeps doing flips and and he is upside down. I have high nitrates but i have had them for a long time and its always been the same and still is. All my other fish are doing good. I dont know what to do please help me. Link to comment
cheryl jordan Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Sorry about your fish. People are gonna need more info, like your parameters and what the fish physically looked like as in visual symptoms. Tangs are famous for having ich, so you may want to review the signs and symptoms of ich and see if it looks familar. Link to comment
patrickboro Posted July 1, 2010 Author Share Posted July 1, 2010 It did not have ich. But i Dont know whats happening.... now my yellow tang is dying too. All of the same symptoms. They being to hide. Looks like they get stuck, and then they cant even swim properly. Omg.... I have 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, but ALOT of nitrates... ive done many water changes latly too. And the nitraes wont go down Link to comment
patrickboro Posted July 1, 2010 Author Share Posted July 1, 2010 but even though they are high everything is doing good and has been for a long time. but all of a sudden the two fish are going Link to comment
Gatotsu77 Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Just to quote another user on your thread about Derasa clams... No water changes with that bio load is one of your problems... And using tap water with conditioner does not remove the Phos. Nitrates from the water... Thats another problem right there... Have you ever done a true water change on this tank? If not, that's exactly why your nitrates are so high. Nitrates won't evaporate, they won't disappear, and there will always be more where they came from. I'd strongly suggest not using conditioned tap water for your tank, and topping off at least once a day if you're adding 5 gallons of top-off a 75g tank. I top-off my tank twice a day, and I'm planning on buying an ATO in the near future. In my ~27g tank, 1 liter of evaporated water tends to equate to ~1 degree change in salinity. (goes from sg of 1.025 to 1.026) If you are topping off 5 gallons at a time, that's easily 5-6 degrees worth of salinity change in your tank, which is a hell of a lot of stress on the inhabitants. Assuming your base salinity was sg 1.025, that's a variance up to 1.030+, and then crashing back down to 1.024 when you pour in 5g of top-off. Another suggestion I'd offer.... research anything you plan to add to the tank before you buy it. We all learn this lesson one way or another (I'm certainly no exception here) and it is much better to learn it the easy way than the hard way. I'm still waiting for the full report on water params... that includes the nitrate reading, (which you've just indicated as "high," how high is it?) phosphates, calcium, magnesium, pH, KH, temp, salinity, etc. What test kit are you using to test these parameters? Edit: I did notice you mentioning you've done "many water changes lately," what volume were the changes, what kind of water did you use, what was the salinity, what are you using to measure salinity, etc. Link to comment
ibom Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 ICK MAGNETS.............. hope for the best expect the worse lost 3 tangs to ick and they the only ones that have ever died from ick in my tank Link to comment
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