carebear73
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Sep 18, 2009
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My son's salt water aquarium "tanked" in a huge way, and we need some direction. Here's the story... the aquarium has been established for a year, complete with live sand and live rocks. We've had a happy community for quite some time, with a friendly little puffer, a small blue damsel, a lemon-headed goby, a black goby of some type (?), and a gorgeous cleaner shrimp. All was well. Until 6 days ago. My son has dreamed of trying a mandarin goby, and while we knew our tank was too young, he really wanted to try. We found a small (1/2") psychadelic green mandarin. He lived for two days. Since then every other fish in the tank has died except the shrimp. Obviously the mandarin was either sick, or the worst mistake we could have made. Looking forward, how do I rid the tank of the disease? I can change out the water and filter mediums, but how do I make sure the sand and live rocks are clean and safe?