I am currently out of town till 6/30 and have enlisted my mother to feed my fish while I'm gone, Tonight she sent me a video of my 18" albino clown knife acting erratic shortly before his death during the nightly feeding. All other fish appear to be fine. I did a series of large water changes to reduce the nitrates as low as possible before I left 6/23.
video my mother sent me.
1. What is the size of your tank?
195 gallon display 5x2.5x2 with 55G sump(1400gph) and FX6
2. What are your water parameters? State the brand of test kit used.
Unknown currently, Ive emailed a friend of mine asking if he could come over and do a test with my API kit. Will post results when available.
3. Is your aquarium set up freshwater or brackish water?
Full fresh.
4. How long the aquarium has been set up?
6 months on sump/display, added the FX6 about 3 weeks ago.
5. What fish do you have? How many are in your tank? How big are they? How long have you had them?
1x black Arowana 16" 3 months
1x Short Body Paroon Shark 16" 6 months
1x Albino Clown Knife 18" (dead) 6 months
1x SB RTC 10" 1 month
1x Red Tiger Oscar 12" 7 months
1x Albino Tiger Oscar 10" 4 months
3x Silver Dollars 5" 4 months
3x Royal Pleco 5-9" 2 months
1x Fire Eel 10" 3 months
1x P.tilapia Bleekeri 7" 3 months
1x Tigrinius 6" (sump) 1 week (purchased from forum member)
1x indo datnoid 2" (sump) 2 months
6. Were the fish placed under quarantine period (minus the first batch from the point wherein the tank is ready to accommodate the inhabitants)?
Yes.
7. What temperature is the tank water currently?
Generally kept at 81.5, Set the heaters at 76 before I left to slow down their metabolism while I was gone to help reduce nitrate build up.
8. Are there live plants in the aquarium?
4x mossballs 3 months
large pothos in sump 3 months
9. What filter are you using? State brand, maintenance routine and power capacity.
55g sump with 7" diameter filter sock with ceramic media and 1400 GPH return pump. Last cleaned 3 months ago.
FX6 running just the included media. Its new so i havent cleaned it.
10. Any other equipment used (aside from heater and filter which are two very important components of the tank)?
9 watt coralife UV sterilizer running at 50 GPH.
11. Does your aquarium receive natural sunlight at any given part of the day? What is your lighting schedule (assuming you do not rely on sunlight for our viewing pleasure)?
LED white lights on during day/ low intensity red light at night.
12. When did you perform your last water change and how much water was changed? How often do you change your water? Do you vacuum the substrate?
6/23 70% change. Tiled bottom is generally clean and never has solid particles on surface. due to the position of the return pump from the sump and the intake of the fx6.
13. What foods do you provide your fish? What is the feeding schedule?
General diet is NLS/Hikari pellets, freeze dried mealworms/krill and the bulk of the tank diet is tilapia fillets. fed 2-3 times a day.
Diet instructions while Im gone are feeding 10 cheese cube sized pieces of tilapia once per day to help reduced nitrate build up while I'm gone.
14. What unusual signs have you observed in your fish?
Because I'm not in town I can't accurately answer this.
15. Have you treated your fish ahead of diagnosis? If so, what treatments did you use? State your reasons for planning ahead of proper diagnosis.
no
1. What is the size of your tank?
195 gallon display 5x2.5x2 with 55G sump(1400gph) and FX6
2. What are your water parameters? State the brand of test kit used.
Unknown currently, Ive emailed a friend of mine asking if he could come over and do a test with my API kit. Will post results when available.
3. Is your aquarium set up freshwater or brackish water?
Full fresh.
4. How long the aquarium has been set up?
6 months on sump/display, added the FX6 about 3 weeks ago.
5. What fish do you have? How many are in your tank? How big are they? How long have you had them?
1x black Arowana 16" 3 months
1x Short Body Paroon Shark 16" 6 months
1x Albino Clown Knife 18" (dead) 6 months
1x SB RTC 10" 1 month
1x Red Tiger Oscar 12" 7 months
1x Albino Tiger Oscar 10" 4 months
3x Silver Dollars 5" 4 months
3x Royal Pleco 5-9" 2 months
1x Fire Eel 10" 3 months
1x P.tilapia Bleekeri 7" 3 months
1x Tigrinius 6" (sump) 1 week (purchased from forum member)
1x indo datnoid 2" (sump) 2 months
6. Were the fish placed under quarantine period (minus the first batch from the point wherein the tank is ready to accommodate the inhabitants)?
Yes.
7. What temperature is the tank water currently?
Generally kept at 81.5, Set the heaters at 76 before I left to slow down their metabolism while I was gone to help reduce nitrate build up.
8. Are there live plants in the aquarium?
4x mossballs 3 months
large pothos in sump 3 months
9. What filter are you using? State brand, maintenance routine and power capacity.
55g sump with 7" diameter filter sock with ceramic media and 1400 GPH return pump. Last cleaned 3 months ago.
FX6 running just the included media. Its new so i havent cleaned it.
10. Any other equipment used (aside from heater and filter which are two very important components of the tank)?
9 watt coralife UV sterilizer running at 50 GPH.
11. Does your aquarium receive natural sunlight at any given part of the day? What is your lighting schedule (assuming you do not rely on sunlight for our viewing pleasure)?
LED white lights on during day/ low intensity red light at night.
12. When did you perform your last water change and how much water was changed? How often do you change your water? Do you vacuum the substrate?
6/23 70% change. Tiled bottom is generally clean and never has solid particles on surface. due to the position of the return pump from the sump and the intake of the fx6.
13. What foods do you provide your fish? What is the feeding schedule?
General diet is NLS/Hikari pellets, freeze dried mealworms/krill and the bulk of the tank diet is tilapia fillets. fed 2-3 times a day.
Diet instructions while Im gone are feeding 10 cheese cube sized pieces of tilapia once per day to help reduced nitrate build up while I'm gone.
14. What unusual signs have you observed in your fish?
Because I'm not in town I can't accurately answer this.
15. Have you treated your fish ahead of diagnosis? If so, what treatments did you use? State your reasons for planning ahead of proper diagnosis.
no
