clownfish dead!!

[sHistA]

i have cycled my tank for a month and about a week i did a 4 gallon water change. my ph is 8.00 nitrite 0 amonia 0 and my nitrate is 10. wen i put my clownfish in my tank about 5 days i go they were doing fine. then 3 days later one was twiching and the other one was really slow. the next daY I COULDEnt find them i think their dead why did thay die??

 

[quarryshark]

What is you SPG and water temp. How did you acclimate them? Did you use qt?

 

[sHistA]

my salinity is 1.023 and temp is 76 F.

 

[Salttanker]

What did you use to cycle the tank with? Also, does your tank stay at 76, or does it fluctuate? Perhaps it is swinging too much? It shoul stay within a few degrees.

Mike

 

[sHistA]

i used a raw shrimp to cycle the tank. and no i think the teperature stays around the same the most ive seen it was 77 and the least was 75.

 

[HoopsGuru]

Twitching may have been from a malady...did you QT them at all or did they go right into the display? Did you notice any physical sign (spots of any sort, etc.?)?

 

[sHistA]

i did not qt them i put the bag in and waited 15 min then added a lin of my water waited 5 min then added a lim more a couple times and them put them in. they swam fine for 2 days. no there were no spots on them they looked fine.

 

[afilter]

too funny, but very typical for clowns, especially maroons. I have a pair in my tank. They are not the biggest fish in the tank, but no one messes with their area.

 

[sHistA]

im talkin about y they died

 

[afilter]

my apologies, I was just reading another post about a maroon clown that attacked the owners hands.

Sorry about you loss.

What kind of water are you using RO or tap? I would suggest you acclimate longer. I usually acclimate over 2+ hour period by placing the fish/inverts in small bucket an then creating a siphin from display with airline tube. Tie a know in tube so you only get a slow trickle.

Also, check with LFS as to what their sg is. alot of LFS keep tank at about 1.020 which would mean longer acclimation required.

 

[steve r]

that is pretty short acclimation time. i am not sure but they could have been stressed or "damaged" through the short accclimation time. also if this was your first live stock in a one month old tank the ammonia could have shot up very quickly with the addition of two new fish. how big is you tank?

steve r

 

[sHistA]

my tank is 44 gal and i already cycled witha deaqd shrimp

 

[HoopsGuru]

How long ago did your tank finish cycling, was the shrimp already rotted and gone or was is still there? Had you done a large water change after the cycle completed?

 

[sHistA]

my tank finished cycling about a week before i put the fish in. and no i only did a 3 gallon water change in my 44 gal tnak after cycle.