Something wrong with my tank ..

tinman

tinman

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something is wrong with my tank

i have some things die on me and now i want to find out the reason , help me out ..

here are the bad things that happened in my tank ...

nuclear palys wont open : these are the only palys that wont open in my tank .. there are other palys and zoas and even some birdsnest that are fine
2. My dearest fish flame hawk died without any reason .. the day before it died it was racing for food and next morning it died
3. Jaw fish went missing .. this is the only fish i can justify cause its hurt .. recovered back and then not eating properly so it might have died sleeping in some rock and some one cleaned him off
4. now this Maxima clam.. it is all fine openin and closing and reacting to shadows and next day night its split open wide and im assuming its dead as i saw my cleaner shrimp on it..


WHATS HAPPENING .. what all should i do to figure out why these things are happening ..
it hurts to loose and im loosing intrest .. :(

give me a list of things that need to be checked and ill go through them all ..

here is what i have done so far :

tested my water for amm and nitrites and nitrates and phosphates ..everything normal with little phosphates as i used to topoff with tap water (not anymore i got rodi unit )
verified and inspected each and every hole and crev in he rock and found a crab took it out so no more pests that i know off

what else should i do :??
 
Maybe check for stray voltage in the tank...sometime we can feel it and sometimes we can't. And has your temp been stable over the last few days? Large temp swings can sometimes stress out the livestock and cause fatalities. I'm sorry to hear you're going thru this, and I wish you luck on finding the issue(s).
 
Smitty said:
Maybe check for stray voltage in the tank...sometime we can feel it and sometimes we can't. And has your temp been stable over the last few days? Large temp swings can sometimes stress out the livestock and cause fatalities. I'm sorry to hear you're going thru this, and I wish you luck on finding the issue(s).
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yes the temp stable and is at 79-81 can see a 3 degree variation .. had a little major swing of around 7 degrees when i took off the hood and changed it to the leds but then again got back to normal in a day after i adjusted the knob,

how do i check for stray voltage ? i have my hands in tank like most of the time but never felt any ..
 
Tethered_Limbs said:
buy a grounding probe just in case, they are only like 10$. are you getting all the livestock from the same place?
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no not from the same place ..

jaw fish and hawk fish are from aquapros .. but they lived more than 2 months happily so i dont think its that problem

its only been 2 or 3 weeks since i got the clam from new fish ..
 
First I think copper in your tank but not because you still have some corals are doing ok in the tank.
"stray voltage' that what I think too but you may check the water condition (cal, alk, magnesium, Nitrate, phosphate and ammonia). Also check your RO/DI water.
Hope it help and don't give up.
 
I've tried 2 clams in the past, both would only last a few days before becoming food for the tank. I feed heavy as well and no clue why my livestock would eat the clams but they did, so I just won't try another clam in fear of wasting more money again. All your issues seem unrelated honestly, hawkfish could have just been his time, jawfish may have never fully recovered from injury, and clam sounds like it became a meal.
 
use volt meter put it on AC put black probe in your ground opening on wall socket and red in tank water check to see if there is any voltage if there is start unpluging things one at a time untill you find out where the voltage is comming from and replace it also grounding probe is a good idea
 
rako1 said:
use volt meter put it on AC put black probe in your ground opening on wall socket and red in tank water check to see if there is any voltage if there is start unpluging things one at a time untill you find out where the voltage is comming from and replace it also grounding probe is a good idea
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now i have to buy a volt meter :( phewww this buying saga never ends withthe tank
 
maidia said:
First I think copper in your tank but not because you still have some corals are doing ok in the tank.
"stray voltage' that what I think too but you may check the water condition (cal, alk, magnesium, Nitrate, phosphate and ammonia). Also check your RO/DI water.
Hope it help and don't give up.
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Not just some ..all of them except that one variety .. are doing great //

never checked cal, alk and mag ...rest are fine .. should i be checking these three too ?
 
FishBeard said:
I've tried 2 clams in the past, both would only last a few days before becoming food for the tank. I feed heavy as well and no clue why my livestock would eat the clams but they did, so I just won't try another clam in fear of wasting more money again. All your issues seem unrelated honestly, hawkfish could have just been his time, jawfish may have never fully recovered from injury, and clam sounds like it became a meal.
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yea that was a choice fishbeard i took like 30 mins deciding what to buy an orange fungia plate or the clam and went with clam just to loose it in a few weeks

never gonna do a clam again :(
 
I never had any luck with clams either. A few months ago I traded my imperator angel for a teardrop maxima only for it to last 4 days and all my water perimeters checked out normal.

That was the 2nd clam I tried and the 1st one didn't do much better lasting only 7 days. Sorry to hear your luck is as bad as mine and it seems fishbeard also with clams.
 
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