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I have a fish that's dying. He's about to be one of MANY fish I have lost in the last two months. I've had the tank going for about 4 months now, and it took a good 2 months to cycle. So far I've done the following to rid my tank of whatever the problem is:
1) Added a bag of carbon to the filter for about 3 weeks changing the carbon out in the middle of that period.
2) Done tons of water changes totaling about 150% of the tank's volume.
3) Added a UV sterilizer which has been running 24x7 for about 10 days now.
The fish I'm losing is a green chromis (cheap and hardy, so I use them as test fish. I've killed a lot of them by this point.) He's doing exactly what all the other fish did. Here is the standard life-extinguishing procedure:
1) Breathe fast, hide behind rocks, and generally swim in place.
2) Continue breathing fast, stop eating, and react less to stimuli of all kinds.
3) Lose equilibrium.
4) Be saved from the arrow crab by the big green net, and then be promptly flushed down the toilet.
Sometimes they have white spots, sometimes they don't. I'd say 3-4 out of the following fish have shown visible signs of ich before they died:
2 longhorn cowfish (both showed)
10 chromis
2 percula clowns (neither showed)
1 sebae clown (didn't show)
All I can keep alive in the tank are inverts and one other green chromis that's been in the tank for about a month now. Three questions at this point:
1) Does anyone have any suggestions?
2) Does ich kill fish before it shows?
3) Would it help if I typed out a detailed description of how I do everything? (i.e. acclimate, run lights, feed, etc.)[/i]
1) Added a bag of carbon to the filter for about 3 weeks changing the carbon out in the middle of that period.
2) Done tons of water changes totaling about 150% of the tank's volume.
3) Added a UV sterilizer which has been running 24x7 for about 10 days now.
The fish I'm losing is a green chromis (cheap and hardy, so I use them as test fish. I've killed a lot of them by this point.) He's doing exactly what all the other fish did. Here is the standard life-extinguishing procedure:
1) Breathe fast, hide behind rocks, and generally swim in place.
2) Continue breathing fast, stop eating, and react less to stimuli of all kinds.
3) Lose equilibrium.
4) Be saved from the arrow crab by the big green net, and then be promptly flushed down the toilet.
Sometimes they have white spots, sometimes they don't. I'd say 3-4 out of the following fish have shown visible signs of ich before they died:
2 longhorn cowfish (both showed)
10 chromis
2 percula clowns (neither showed)
1 sebae clown (didn't show)
All I can keep alive in the tank are inverts and one other green chromis that's been in the tank for about a month now. Three questions at this point:
1) Does anyone have any suggestions?
2) Does ich kill fish before it shows?
3) Would it help if I typed out a detailed description of how I do everything? (i.e. acclimate, run lights, feed, etc.)[/i]