i'm even more baffled at the 0 nitrate. something's wrong with the filtration here.Reefscape;2205596; said:
help!!
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My recommendation would be to take some of the water and get it tested at your LFS. When ever I am unsure about test results my LFS tests it for free(probably because I usually buy something from them while I'm there).
didnt really have n e thing in there. im not saying that you guys are wrong. all im saying is that thats what the tests are reading. and i need to find a way to keep my fish safe. learned my lesson no more dumping. and how long should i keep the fish in the quarantine tank before i add him to my main tank? feeding schedules? lighting schedules? thanks again for your help
p3t3rc;2207217; said:
It's all good, I can't speak for everyone, but I wasn't trying to put you down at all. Believe it or not, I have been exactly where you have. There is always a reason, even if at first we haven't figured it out yet. For me, all my parameters were perfect, and all my fish had been lively and healthy the day prior (Fish which had been in thank tank over a year), then one afternoon i come home and find a graveyard. Lost 5 fish that day, 1 Chromis, 1 Royal Gramma, 1 Coral Beauty, 1 Lyretail Anthias, and .... *sniff sniff* 1 newly hatched baby bamboo. It shocked the heck outta me and I was freaking out and testing everything and going through my maintenance logs, and basically - - Having a heart attack.
What was weird was that the Ocellaris Clown, 2 other Chromis, the snails, and soft corals (Frags of Zoas, Mushrooms and a carpet anemone) - WERE ALL FINE.
It blew me away, as NOT A SINGLE test I ran showed anything abnormal, in fact, everything I was testing (Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates, PH, KH, Alk, O2, Calcium, etc) was perfect.
So I sat staring at that tank for an hour wondering why the heck nothing was reading, and yet half the stock had just flat out biffed it.
Then.... I remembered something.
The day before I had added some more live sand to the tank (as with each cleaning you lose some so after a while, it gets thin). This is something I have done for years, never having any problems... BUT that was the only thing new I had introduced to the tank, AND it was a brand that I had never used before (from preference), but it was all that was available when I needed it.....
I still do not know what that sand introduced into my water. I know it was something because that was the only thing new and all my fish were healthy and happy, and not a single scale was out of place on them... Then they just died. And it amazed me that something could have been that toxic, knocking so many out, and yet the others survived.
Parameter test kits (obviously) do not and cannot test every element of the water, and obviously whatever it was in my water, even with all my tests, I was pullin nothin.
So trust me, you are not the only one, and sometimes there are things that we simply cannot detect. It's happened to most of us at some point or another.
