babyblue4020
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Oct 26, 2008
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I recently set up a thirty gallon tank, we bough it with live coral and sand, we bought it used online, they had an older filter but it seemed to do ok. we first started by adding a blue damsel and sea anemone. Everything seemed to be doing ok so we bought some hermit crabs, sand sifting star, and another damsel. We then bought a maroon clownfish and another sea anemone. We then bought a mandrin goby. We have had this tank approx a month and a half. We replaced the filter with a rena canister. We now read that you cannot quickly add to the bio load which was our mistake. First our sea anemones died, then a crab, then all of our fish in two days. The last is still alive but is breathing on top of the water for awihile. We took it out and know it will die if we cannot put it back in. We now only have our crabs and starfish. We tested the water, ph was low, and nitrate was 20 ppm. We then noticed salinity was lower than usual. 1.020-1.021. it now 1.023 We then changed approx four gallons of water and bough a ph buffer. We do not plan on buying anything for awhile. We were wondering if anyone knows how we can fix this and in time buy some more fish.
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