wontonflip
I failed Kobayashi Maru
We lost our orange spotted goby in our 10 gallon :( Last time I checked the water a couple of days ago, ammonia and nitrites were 0pm, nitrates were at 5 ppm.
The only things I can think of was when I added a couple of hermits crabs into the tank, when I was done acclimating them, I had to replenish the water. I used regular unsalted rodi because the salinity was high anyway (1.026) so I wanted to lower it anyway while I was replenishing. It went down to 1.023, which I think in turn shocked the goby.
Then with the warm weather, I noticed this morning the temp was at 83F. I guess it got too hot. It's been so cold that I raised my tanks heaters to compensate (my temp in the tanks were in the 73-75 range prior). So to make it warmer, I raised it on the 45 and 10. I guess because the 10 gallon was so small, after weeks of 30F weather, it couldn't handle the sudden 60 F degree weather. I should've adjusted!
I also added a hob skimmer. I rinsed and ran it in regular water to make sure to get rid of any dirt before setting it up in the tank. But I wonder if maybe I didn't run it clean enough.
I'm doing a massive 40% change right now, and put some prime to help with the ammonia. My pistol shrimp survived, the mushroom *looks* ok, as well as the snails (so far) No sign of the 2 hermit crabs I added. Don't know if they survived. So bummed. I had to calm my daughter down because she was the one who found him dead, and she didn't know what he was doing (she came up giggling because the fish was bobbing around the bottom). She didn't know it was dead. So I've had to put aside my own bummed feelings to just tell her it's part of the hobby -- dying fish, trial and error. Dunno if she buys it. Hehe.
*sigh* It's always should'a would'a could'a on hindsight, eh?
The only things I can think of was when I added a couple of hermits crabs into the tank, when I was done acclimating them, I had to replenish the water. I used regular unsalted rodi because the salinity was high anyway (1.026) so I wanted to lower it anyway while I was replenishing. It went down to 1.023, which I think in turn shocked the goby.
Then with the warm weather, I noticed this morning the temp was at 83F. I guess it got too hot. It's been so cold that I raised my tanks heaters to compensate (my temp in the tanks were in the 73-75 range prior). So to make it warmer, I raised it on the 45 and 10. I guess because the 10 gallon was so small, after weeks of 30F weather, it couldn't handle the sudden 60 F degree weather. I should've adjusted!
I also added a hob skimmer. I rinsed and ran it in regular water to make sure to get rid of any dirt before setting it up in the tank. But I wonder if maybe I didn't run it clean enough.
I'm doing a massive 40% change right now, and put some prime to help with the ammonia. My pistol shrimp survived, the mushroom *looks* ok, as well as the snails (so far) No sign of the 2 hermit crabs I added. Don't know if they survived. So bummed. I had to calm my daughter down because she was the one who found him dead, and she didn't know what he was doing (she came up giggling because the fish was bobbing around the bottom). She didn't know it was dead. So I've had to put aside my own bummed feelings to just tell her it's part of the hobby -- dying fish, trial and error. Dunno if she buys it. Hehe.
*sigh* It's always should'a would'a could'a on hindsight, eh?
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