Chris Beddows Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Hi guys my marine tank is dieing... In the Last 24hrs I have lost 2 turbos, 1emerald, and 1 hermit... My ammonia levels are 0 and now my fuzzy dwarf lionfish is refusing to eat and is looking more docile than normal. I am unable to stock up on saltwater until Sunday to preform another 50 percent change which I did 4 days ago after noticing my usually very greedy dwarf wasnt eating... Temp normal at 24 to 26c Had an outburst of col algea recently but didn't think much of it. Quote Link to comment
Clown79 Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 15 minutes ago, Chris Beddows said: Hi guys my marine tank is dieing... In the Last 24hrs I have lost 2 turbos, 1emerald, and 1 hermit... My ammonia levels are 0 and now my fuzzy dwarf lionfish is refusing to eat and is looking more docile than normal. I am unable to stock up on saltwater until Sunday to preform another 50 percent change which I did 4 days ago after noticing my usually very greedy dwarf wasnt eating... Temp normal at 24 to 26c Had an outburst of col algea recently but didn't think much of it. What algae did you have? Have you tested anything like alk, ca, nitrate, phos? Quote Link to comment
Chris Beddows Posted February 7, 2020 Author Share Posted February 7, 2020 Green Hair algea but seems to look like stringy green webbing if that makes sense Phos and alk good.. Unable to test ca until sunday when I can get refills. Ammonia good... Only dwarf left...still active when promted but not feeding and seems lethargic so to speak... Breathing quicker than I have usually monitored. Being unable to perform a water change I really dont know what else to do Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 How old is this tank? What were your phosphate and alkalinity levels when you tested? Can you post a tank picture? Quote Link to comment
Seadragon Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 I’d also include testing the salinity just in case as well as all of the water parameters just to help paint a picture of what might be the issue. Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Do you buy premixed salt at the LFS? Quote Link to comment
A.m.P Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Stringy-web algae, pensive-stressed fish, and dying cleanup crew sounds like dinos. Calcium isn't going to do anything like what you're describing, stray-voltage might, salinity-swings might, temperature-swings might, but few of the usual parameters hobbyists traditionally check-for will cause fish-fasting or snail deaths. Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 On 2/7/2020 at 5:00 PM, Chris Beddows said: stringy green webbing 1 hour ago, Amphrites said: sounds like dinos The webbing yes. But I dunno about the "green" part adding up to dino's....almost sounds like hair algae co-blooming with green cyanobacteria.....but I've never heard of it growing on hair algae. Usually I see green cyano where there's no other algae growth and I only see it on the sand bed. Who knows in this case though! Really need pics and actual test numbers for N and P. 1 Quote Link to comment
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