ok i think i made a big mistake, i just got a 150 gallon for my clown triggerfish, anyways i filled the 150 up with NEW water and transfered everything over, ( i think this is where i went wrong) all my livestalk did good for about the first 2 days, then died, now everything dies with in the first few hours of putting it in, is it because my tank needs to cycle?
PLEASE HELP!!! All fish died
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Water parameters will help a lot here. Also did you use the same filter from the previous tank and did you leave the filter alone as in left the bio media intact? If everything is dying within a few hrs you either have some type of contaminate in the tank or your ammonia and nitrites are off the scale.
penngomifan;2514997; said:
omg! yes sir you need a cycle the ***** out of that tank. Are you using the same filter? You should have transferred the water from the old tank along witht the sand. What did you do exactly?
ok i totaly messed up, sigh.... i cleaned out the filter befor i made the transfer, i cleaned the media and everything, everything is new in the tank, everything i test the water with the kits, the amonia etc is not off teh charts? ??? does this mean i have a contament? i already did two diffrent water changes incase there was something in the tank.....sorry about the spelling
penngomifan;2515095; said:
well lets see. you cleaned everything out which means 0 zero bacteria. you need major bacteria for your saltwater bro. cycle the tank and get some damzel in there like 3 or 4 of em. stop doing water changes. you need to run this for several weeks or when your water params are suitable.
what are the water Parameters. I would say you deffinatly need to cycle the tank. it could very well be a contaminant but to rule that as likely The Parameters will be necassary. cleaning the filter and everything likely took out all you BB
o yeh something else important i left out, the first time i did the transfer, my filter collected a bunch of nasty smelling black stuff on the filter media? and it was visable threw the outlet tube going back into the tank ( the black stuff that is) when that happened i went out and bought new media for the filter...... i tested everything with the kit and all came back good...
i think it just need a cycle . check water params every 3 days to see if anything changes. Any ammonia spikes ect.
I agree... I bet you wiped out all of your BB. You will need to cycle this tank and get some test kits to post the perameters...