Okay, i am now running out of ideas. Here's the low down:
100 gallon tank
75 gallon
sump DSB in the
sump
Complete cycle, tank has been up and running for 5 months.
Parameters:
pH = 8.4
Nitrite,
ammonia = 0
Nitrate = 0
Salinity = 35 ppt
KH = 10
Temp = 81.4
I go out and purchase two baby ocelleris clowns and a yellow tang (these are the first fish in the tank). Drip acclimated for 1.5 hours. Tang dies the next morning. The clowns are fine (tank bred).
So, i go back to the
LFS. They do a necropsy on the tang and say it died of a bacterial infection. They double checked my water parameters and said they were "excellent."
Waited a few more days till the weekend and got another yellow tang. Same
acclimation. It hid for several days but eventually started to come out.
Today i was sitting and watching the tank and noticed the tang looked like it was starving. Its stomach is deflated and i can see its ribs. It did not look like this when i bought it. This is now day 4. I hoped online and did some research and from what i gather, tangs can go on a hunger strike for a while. Okay...
But, now i checked again several hours later and it is on its side gasping for "air." What the hell?
The tank has a huge bush of the red algae (Ogo) and i put in some nori a couple of times. The clowns nipped at the nori and are
still doing just fine.
One note however, i did not use a
QT. Might this be the problem or should i start checking something else?
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