New tank - Need some advice

[redsea]

Lol... Yeah, always does... But I want a bigger one... I want to get those last 3 chromis and I'm done... Oh, a clam too...

Chromis are very cool fish! Good decision! Are you going to get a blue clam?

 

[Kio707]

Chromis are very cool fish! Good decision! Are you going to get a blue clam?

Not sure... Any suggestions? My tank is still a lil young.

 

[Kio707]

My alk is 2.5.... bad or good and how do I fix it if it is bad?

 

[carey]

if you mean 2.5 dkh then its way low. I shoot for 10 dkh.

 

[Kio707]

if you mean 2.5 dkh then its way low. I shoot for 10 dkh.

How do I raise it?

 

[carey]

Where are ayour calcium and magnesium levels at? They all kinda go together. You can buffer the alk if the others are ok but if not then youll have to dose 2 part.

 

[Kio707]

Cal is 450.... I need a mag tester. Pick one up today...

 

[Kio707]

Mag is 1150, cal 450, ammonia 0, trites 0, trates 10, alk 2.0, ph 8.2.... I got an alk buffer... I know it needs to be up to 4-5, right?

 

[carey]

I keep mine at 10 for alk. Mag should be 1250 1350 and calcium is good

 

[Kio707]

So I need to dose for mag?

 

[Kio707]

Think my kole tang is dying.... In qt now...

 

[coffeetwitch]

???? Oh no. What's going on?

 

[TLTGF]

Hope things turn out okay!

 

[Kio707]

Idk if it's ick or he's stressed himself to lose it's slime coat. He doesn't look like any of the ick pics I looked up... Idk... Never ordering from aquacon again...

 

[coffeetwitch]

Hope he pulls through man

 

[Kio707]

Hope he pulls through man

I do to... But preparing for the worst... I'm out at work now, so I shall see...

 

[Kio707]

Got home and the tang was dead.... Had color, no white spots, prams are good. Did a 20g pwc last night.... Idk... Also found the orange spotted goby dead... What am
I doing wrong?!?!

 

[rdnelson99]

Man I am sorry to hear that. :-(

 

[coffeetwitch]

Got home and the tang was dead.... Had color, no white spots, prams are good. Did a 20g pwc last night.... Idk... Also found the orange spotted goby dead... What am
I doing wrong?!?!

It happens kio. You where doing what you needed to do! It was just these two fish. If everyone else is ok it was for sure the fish. Sorry for the loss.

 

[TLTGF]

Bummer deal, +1 it happens, I had some similar mystery stuff happening. Hope you can find out what is happening.

Like twitch said, if everyone else seems alright, might have been the fish. I'm not adding any more fish for a total of 4 weeks, I'm 2 weeks in now, just to be sure that I have no more die-off.