We recently purchased a 120 gallon reef ready tank with a 1150gph pump made by Little Giant.
We introduced some load into the tank to help the cycling process 25 neon tetras, bio spira dumped in then the little fish. Immediatly as warned by the fish retailer half would die. Well only 33% died, good odds!
A week went by and we had 17 neon tetras all others dies within a hour of day one.
The tank appeared to cycle (biospira help) and we added the larger 4 inch plus fish little by little. Added the clown loaches several days later, no Neon deaths. Added the Gouramis and within 24hrs 4 more neon tetras died (just by putting the 4 inch Gouramis) in the tank the neons freaked.
As a side note, I've been starting to wonder if 1150gph pump is overkill. When I turn the pump down via a valve to feed them all fish seem to swim more freely. I turn it to full blast and they start to hide.
Yet over time the Neons seem to be getting accustomed to this super flow but they don't seem to hang out in the school as much until the flow is reduced. The clown loaches seem to love the flow. The Gouramis seem still a bit freaked out by it, but they are really new to this tank.
Any advice from anyone would be great here, but I started to wonder if it was ok to use my valve to regulate the flow from the 1150gph pump into the tank. The pump seems pretty hot as is and I wondered if it would be a problem to cut the flow in half, being that this pump is cooled by water.
Thanks for the advice
We introduced some load into the tank to help the cycling process 25 neon tetras, bio spira dumped in then the little fish. Immediatly as warned by the fish retailer half would die. Well only 33% died, good odds!
A week went by and we had 17 neon tetras all others dies within a hour of day one.
The tank appeared to cycle (biospira help) and we added the larger 4 inch plus fish little by little. Added the clown loaches several days later, no Neon deaths. Added the Gouramis and within 24hrs 4 more neon tetras died (just by putting the 4 inch Gouramis) in the tank the neons freaked.
As a side note, I've been starting to wonder if 1150gph pump is overkill. When I turn the pump down via a valve to feed them all fish seem to swim more freely. I turn it to full blast and they start to hide.
Yet over time the Neons seem to be getting accustomed to this super flow but they don't seem to hang out in the school as much until the flow is reduced. The clown loaches seem to love the flow. The Gouramis seem still a bit freaked out by it, but they are really new to this tank.
Any advice from anyone would be great here, but I started to wonder if it was ok to use my valve to regulate the flow from the 1150gph pump into the tank. The pump seems pretty hot as is and I wondered if it would be a problem to cut the flow in half, being that this pump is cooled by water.
Thanks for the advice