Need some major help. For the past 6 months ive been struggling with my first marine tank, I keep getting help from these guys at the pet store, but alot of time their advice controdicts themselves.
Right now my tank is just some live rock, sand, 2 cleaner crabs and two ocellaris clownfish. Up till now I've been using tap water and water conditioner before mixing with my aquarium salt. I couldn't get my water stable and so bought a RODI system which hooks up to my tap. Now for each water change I used that to make my fresh salt water- however I noticed my water was very murky and white, like the concentration of salt was too high even though my hydrometer was in the right range when tested. My fish two were acting like they were struggling to breath and styed very close to the surface. This lasted a day and a half, before I got worried and did a full water change as my local pet store advised me. When I was acclimating my fish and crabs back in I noticed they look cloudy on their fins? Stained kinda white? Not spots like ich - just stained like how the water looked. I acclimated them and they seemed to be doing better, swimming around and eating as normal. This morning I woke up and my male ocellaris was dead? My water read high for Ph and Aemona (I assume from being dead all night; since i just did a water change and the levels were normal?) My female clown fish is doing just fine, shes swimming around, eating and seems completely healthy. Both crabs also seems totally fine?
Does anyone know what happened or what I can do?
Right now my tank is just some live rock, sand, 2 cleaner crabs and two ocellaris clownfish. Up till now I've been using tap water and water conditioner before mixing with my aquarium salt. I couldn't get my water stable and so bought a RODI system which hooks up to my tap. Now for each water change I used that to make my fresh salt water- however I noticed my water was very murky and white, like the concentration of salt was too high even though my hydrometer was in the right range when tested. My fish two were acting like they were struggling to breath and styed very close to the surface. This lasted a day and a half, before I got worried and did a full water change as my local pet store advised me. When I was acclimating my fish and crabs back in I noticed they look cloudy on their fins? Stained kinda white? Not spots like ich - just stained like how the water looked. I acclimated them and they seemed to be doing better, swimming around and eating as normal. This morning I woke up and my male ocellaris was dead? My water read high for Ph and Aemona (I assume from being dead all night; since i just did a water change and the levels were normal?) My female clown fish is doing just fine, shes swimming around, eating and seems completely healthy. Both crabs also seems totally fine?
Does anyone know what happened or what I can do?