can someone help me i have no idea whats wrong with my blue hippo hes bin going on and off with ich but my skunk shrimp has bin getting rid of it now i come home from work his eyes twice the size then his other one and white my water levels were fine yesterday i came home from work tonight and my nitrates are off the roof!! there at like 20ppm i have no idea y what should i do i do not have a hospital tank for him or nothing please write back thank you
HELP!blue hippo tang sick?
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all the other fish are healthy by the way they are all swimming including the hippo every other level is fine i dunno whats going on im deffinatly panicing tho this is my first marine tank and ive only had it for about 2-3 montsh
Read through this: http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31103&highlight=pop-eye
Unless you have a reef tank, or a very sensitive fish like a powder blue tang, don't worry about the nitrates. The cleaner shrimp should be able to handle them. If they continue to rise, however, look for the cause. What type of filters? Any macroalgae biofilter that went to seed? Dead fish?
Unless you have a reef tank, or a very sensitive fish like a powder blue tang, don't worry about the nitrates. The cleaner shrimp should be able to handle them. If they continue to rise, however, look for the cause. What type of filters? Any macroalgae biofilter that went to seed? Dead fish?
The salinity is probably from evaporation. Did your house get really hot today? Do you have halide lighting? An increase in temp. could have killed something, along with low dissolved oxygen.
it is a reef tank its a 75 gal i did turn up the temp on the heater the past few days cus we kicked in the ac at my house cus its really hot out but it only went up one degree 80 to 81 i have a fluval 405 should i do a water change??? THANK YOU for getting back to me i was about to go crazy
let me correct myself it is ment to be a reef tank but i only have a frogspawn coral and a condy in it along with a yellow tang and hippo and two perculas skunk shrimp and pepermint shrimp
And slightly off topic, but I recommend anyone with a saltwater tank also register of Reef Frontiers. Its free & good info.
yeah i have bin seeing that thanks for reffering it to me anyways back to the subject what should i do i have work early in the morning and dont know if i should do the water change or not