Hi,
My family and I have just joined living reefs. We have a 55 gallon saltwater tank with quite a few corals - xenia, brain, torch,mushroom and star polyps. Now we only have a clown, potter's angelfish and a few damsels. My son has a 10 gallon tank with a gobie, a clown, a pom pom and a cleaner shrimp. He's hoping to propagate some coral. We have the 55 in our kitchen and everyone really enjoys the tropical scene.
The other night the lights on the fish tank turned off as usual around 8 pm. We noticed, in the residual light, that the tank seemed quite cloudy. Didn't pay too much attenetion as sometimes the blue damsel gets excited and stirs up the sand. Wish we had turned the lights back on. The next morning we woke to find our rabbit fox race, 2 bangaii cardinals and our mandarin goby all dead. We tested the water but nothing really showed up and then did a partial water change twice but now we have also lost our conch, porcelain crab and tuxedo sea urchin. Does anyone have any idea what happened? The fish that are left seem healthy and happy. It seems as if there must have been a sudden massive ammonia spike but how and why. Would be great if someone could give us their views.
Thanks,
jjetzbird
My family and I have just joined living reefs. We have a 55 gallon saltwater tank with quite a few corals - xenia, brain, torch,mushroom and star polyps. Now we only have a clown, potter's angelfish and a few damsels. My son has a 10 gallon tank with a gobie, a clown, a pom pom and a cleaner shrimp. He's hoping to propagate some coral. We have the 55 in our kitchen and everyone really enjoys the tropical scene.
The other night the lights on the fish tank turned off as usual around 8 pm. We noticed, in the residual light, that the tank seemed quite cloudy. Didn't pay too much attenetion as sometimes the blue damsel gets excited and stirs up the sand. Wish we had turned the lights back on. The next morning we woke to find our rabbit fox race, 2 bangaii cardinals and our mandarin goby all dead. We tested the water but nothing really showed up and then did a partial water change twice but now we have also lost our conch, porcelain crab and tuxedo sea urchin. Does anyone have any idea what happened? The fish that are left seem healthy and happy. It seems as if there must have been a sudden massive ammonia spike but how and why. Would be great if someone could give us their views.
Thanks,
jjetzbird