stegm1sc
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
My name is scott and i have a 55 gal reef tank that i started may 2010. I have a penguin 350 biowheel filter as well as a magnum 350 canister filter. I only have a few soft corals (star polyps, kenya tree, xenya tree, and a patch of zoanthids) My fish consist of 2x percula clowns, randall's goby, neon goby, yellow tang, and a pinkspotted goby. I also recently purchased a cleaner shrimp. Yesterday my pinkspotted goby started to refuse to eat. Then my yellow tang started to get "cloudy eye". Now one of my clowns is noticeably lighter and has a little bit of white slime on him. The cleaner shrimp has been on the yellow tang, he ate tonight and seems ok (besides his eyes). The clown fish ate as well. The other clown seems ok. I did a 8 gallon water change today (because nitrates were around 20 ppm). I also installed my protein skimmer today. I usually do a 5 gal water change weekly. The tang is 2 weeks old... the clowns are 4 weeks... the gobys are 3 weeks... there has been 0 problems w/ them fighting or any signs of stress since they have been in there. I feed Nutrafin flake food in the morning and brine or mysis shrimp in the evening. The other levels i test are.... Salinity 30...Specific Gravity 1.022.... Phosphate 0ppm... Ammonia 0ppm... PH 8.3 Nitrate (fluxuates between 5ppm-20ppm) after the water change it is currently at 10ppm.... nitrite 0ppm... my temp ranges from 80F-84F (but has since day one) Here are some recent things that could have caused this (IMO). I added Nutramar Live copepods 7/13... put DT's Live Marine Phytoplankton (1tbsp) 7/13... my sea lettuce got sucked into the powerhead today and maybe the clown ate a piece of him? i got his chunks out seconds after the incident. HELP!