Swiftler
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- Mar 29, 2011
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So I just came home to work on the placement of my new power heads and found all my fish dead. The corals seem to be okay but one of my striped damsels was laying dead in the bottom corner and my clown was in the top back corner wedged between the glass and the skimmer pump and I can't find the other damsel.
I check my pH, salinity, trates, trites, and ammonia and everything shows up at 0, 8.1, and 1.026. I even tested for copper and it's at 0/0.1. Kh was at 10 drops 179 ppm. temp is steady at 79.
The things that have changed recently was adding new rock on Saturday and installing the new pumps on Wednesday. I also changed food to new life spectrum. I was dosing the tank since sunday with 2 tsp of Kent marine purple tech to try to speed up growth on the new rock. My wife and I are very upset and frustrated. You guys have any ideas? Could this have been the new flow, is it too much? The tank is 55 gallons, it has a remora pro skimmer, a hang on back mechanical filter and 2 Hydor 1050s, 70 lbs of sand and about 55 lbs of rock.
I check my pH, salinity, trates, trites, and ammonia and everything shows up at 0, 8.1, and 1.026. I even tested for copper and it's at 0/0.1. Kh was at 10 drops 179 ppm. temp is steady at 79.
The things that have changed recently was adding new rock on Saturday and installing the new pumps on Wednesday. I also changed food to new life spectrum. I was dosing the tank since sunday with 2 tsp of Kent marine purple tech to try to speed up growth on the new rock. My wife and I are very upset and frustrated. You guys have any ideas? Could this have been the new flow, is it too much? The tank is 55 gallons, it has a remora pro skimmer, a hang on back mechanical filter and 2 Hydor 1050s, 70 lbs of sand and about 55 lbs of rock.