I think my tank is dying

[jackyywayne]

Have there recently been any swings in temperature?

I wonder The Same

 

[RabidClownFish]

Have there recently been any swings in temperature?

There have not been any temperature swings

 

[RabidClownFish]

our Tank is a 75 gallon. had it for about one year. how long have you had your Tank? are The Salt Levels balanced good enough to make sure the Fish & coral are healthy?

The tank has been a long project but I first added fish about three maybe three and a half months ago. The salt levels have been pretty consistent minus small swings from evaporation and then topping off. I still have to install an auto top off

 

[TokenReefer]

How much are you topping off daily and when you do it's been dechloronated?
What is your salinity?

 

[Ironwill723]

Have you checked your equipment for stray voltage in your tank?

 

[Rmckoy]

Have you checked your equipment for stray voltage in your tank?

I don’t think stray voltage will effect fish , and if there is . I’m sure the op
Would have felt something by now .

 

[b breef]

I lean more toward the cycle not running efficiently. Almost like new tank syndrome. Maybe start dosing some nitrobacter7 or some other to start with. Won’t hurt if not the problem either.
Maybe some excessively large WCs too and see if you get a positive response.
Heck sometimes it’s like shooting in the dark.
Sorry for your troubles.

 

[Morpheosz]

I would be concerned about the tap water as the primary wild card especially assuming you are topping off with tap water, meaning anything in the tap water (metals, etc) is just getting more and more concentrated in your tank.

Can you hook your RO/DI up to a utility sink or hose spigot temporarily? Adapters are pretty easy to come by at the local hardware store. Fill up a big brute garbage can or 2 and mix up fresh saltwater and do a few bigger water changes to dilute / remove anything that may be building up in your tank.

Your RO unit may even have come with adapters otherwise things like this are easy to come by:

Also, I haven't used these in ages, but maybe try a polyfilter pad to remove any metals, etc. introduced by the tap water.

 

[LordofCinder]

My guess is the tap water as well, we have no idea whats in your water and what you're adding to the tank.

Sounds like you've got most issue's under control, and you went all out on a beautiful tank and fish, but you cheaped out on the 2 most important tools in our hobby; the rodi and the ATO

 

[FishFamilyRobinson]

If you have access to a yard and garden hose, you can also run the RODI unit right from there into a bucket and let the wastewater go into the yard.

 

[TokenReefer]

Great temporary solutions @FishFamilyRobinson and @Morpheosz ...to eliminate the tap water variable...
also https://www.homedepot.com/p/NEOPERL...arge-Coupler-and-Fitting-37-0297-98/207116839 locally if you have a rodi tubing to hose connection (my rodi came with this)

 

[Sasquatchv]

You wrote you wash your hands thoroughly, good, unless you are using perfumed liquid "soap". It can be nasty and toxic to aquatic life. Same as many air "fresheners"(poisoners imho) and some hand creams.
I have a bar of grey unscented soap for pre maintenance wash.

Btw, washing machine connection usually has stop valve and is removable without tools.
Add appropriate adapter, usually 3/4" to 1/4" push fit, same as linked few posts above garden hose adapter and off you go with your RODI.

 

[jabberwock]

Lot's of good suggestions here. I also think the two main factors are quite likely tap water and potentially soap used for hand washing. I keep some Dr. Bronner's biodegradable on hand for pre work wash down. Then I wait for a least an hour to dry out thoroughly.

 

[Sasquatchv]

Thinking aboutiteven with dead fish rotting away amoonia should remain undetectable in cycled tank.
My suspicion is something killed nitrifying bacteria, antibac soap, or use of air freshener in the room. Possibly friends/family looking after the tank didn't like the smell in the room?

 

[RabidClownFish]

Hey sorry I haven’t been updating here! So, I had a local expect come check everything out and he said I was massively over feeding. I was under the impression that my hermit crabs have been starving to death which was sad so I had been doing extra food that I didn’t even think was too much but he said it was way overboard.

He helped me get my stuff organized, he got my trident working, hooked up my RO for me, and recommended I take a couple days off from feeding. I haven’t put any food in the tank for a day and a half now and everyone looks a lot happier. Things seem to be looking up for now. Thank you for all the replies and advice I really appreciate y’all

 

[Sasquatchv]

Thanks for the update, I'm shocked that you overfed to the point of ammonia spike. Glad you got it sorted.

 

[brandon429]

When all disease preps are skipped, literally every possible one, we don’t look for a parameter problem here

parameters in a reef tank don’t kill fish


read and apply disease preps from Jays disease forum here


you have a new tank under eight mod old, disease losses are fully expected here or those stickies wouldn’t be the first read in Jays forum. Disease is where you start, you don’t slowly wind up maybe accepting it could be

parameters will almost never cause slow staggered fish loss, soon to not be slow.

 

[brandon429]

This was not an ammonia spike death at all. That doesn’t happen in display reefing, that was made up to fit losses the unpire doesn’t want to check against common disease preps


reef tanks can handle large feeding, no ammonia control issue happens in reefing, not ever, it’s made up.

it would be listed as a risk in stickies we can read, it’s not, it’s made up

delayed cycle blamed for no prep fish death

ammonia was posted on page one, then we overrode that to still blame ammonia

 

[brandon429]

I checked the temp (76.5), salinity (1.025), ammonia (0), nitrates (pretty high at about 20 ppm


you werent even getting high nitrates, 180 is high, this isn’t feed relayed and don’t try and revolt because I mentioned disease team lol

run this entire post in the disease forum let’s see contrasting evals.


I can’t see logically how umpires here ruled out disease fully to the point it doesn’t factor, there’s an entire forum showing what happens by month eight in new tanks skipping preps.

 

[TokenReefer]

ammonia was posted on page one, then we overrode that to still blame ammonia

Who did? Where's the post blaming ammonia? Wrong thread?