Here is a history of where my problems started.
(We bought a 90 gallon tank about a month and a half ago from a local fish store. We had him come and do the setup. It was set up with a sump underneath, a sock filter and pump in the sump. The live sand was added and about 10 pounds of live rock and 10 of base rock. About 2 days later he said it was safe to add our 2 clown fish. About 2 weeks later he added another 50 pounds or so of live rock and 20 of base rock. We are new to this so we trusted everything he said. When we wanted to add new fish he said it was fine. We were up to a yellow tang, the 2 clown, a blue tang, flame angel, and a dottyback. Also 10 turbo snails and 10 other kind. 1 diamond gobie, a tiger shrimp, fire shrimp, and a cleaner shrimp. Also a sea urchin, and some small starfish.
Our turbo snails have all since died, the last 3 soon after he did a 20 gallon water change 2 weeks ago. Also over the past 3 days i lost the flame angel, blue tang and today the dottyback.
I am trying to learn what to do now as I don't trust him.
Was that too many too soon?
We were never told about tank cycling, or to check anything within the water. I bought a test kit, our ph is around 8
ammonia and nitrite are near zero and nitrate maybe 20-40.
I also just put in a powerhead yesterday which we werent told we should have, besides the sock filter in the sump do i need anything else? Protein skimmer etc?
The tank has been cloudy since almost the beginning and has algae on sand, rocks. What do I do and why are my fish and snails dying? )
That has been close to 3 weeks since the last fish was removed from that tank. Since then there is still a cleaner shrimp, fire shrimp, tiger shrimp, sea urchin and about 10 nass snails living in it. They were in there from near the start also. The shrimp have molted quite often so I assume they are all good. On Wednesday we bought a diamond goby and put it in a quarantine tank. Today after several water changes the quarantine tank still had ammonia around .50 that I couldn't seem to get down. The water in the display tank is ph 8.0, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, and nitrate .20 So I thought it would be time I could put the goby in there. He seemed ok for a couple hours, kinda looked like breathing heavy though, and then he started to swim to the top and jump. He landed back on the rock and next thing we knew he is on the sand dead. Could he have been sick from too high of ammonia in the quarantine tank? Or am I just not meant to have fish
(We bought a 90 gallon tank about a month and a half ago from a local fish store. We had him come and do the setup. It was set up with a sump underneath, a sock filter and pump in the sump. The live sand was added and about 10 pounds of live rock and 10 of base rock. About 2 days later he said it was safe to add our 2 clown fish. About 2 weeks later he added another 50 pounds or so of live rock and 20 of base rock. We are new to this so we trusted everything he said. When we wanted to add new fish he said it was fine. We were up to a yellow tang, the 2 clown, a blue tang, flame angel, and a dottyback. Also 10 turbo snails and 10 other kind. 1 diamond gobie, a tiger shrimp, fire shrimp, and a cleaner shrimp. Also a sea urchin, and some small starfish.
Our turbo snails have all since died, the last 3 soon after he did a 20 gallon water change 2 weeks ago. Also over the past 3 days i lost the flame angel, blue tang and today the dottyback.
I am trying to learn what to do now as I don't trust him.
Was that too many too soon?
We were never told about tank cycling, or to check anything within the water. I bought a test kit, our ph is around 8
ammonia and nitrite are near zero and nitrate maybe 20-40.
I also just put in a powerhead yesterday which we werent told we should have, besides the sock filter in the sump do i need anything else? Protein skimmer etc?
The tank has been cloudy since almost the beginning and has algae on sand, rocks. What do I do and why are my fish and snails dying? )
That has been close to 3 weeks since the last fish was removed from that tank. Since then there is still a cleaner shrimp, fire shrimp, tiger shrimp, sea urchin and about 10 nass snails living in it. They were in there from near the start also. The shrimp have molted quite often so I assume they are all good. On Wednesday we bought a diamond goby and put it in a quarantine tank. Today after several water changes the quarantine tank still had ammonia around .50 that I couldn't seem to get down. The water in the display tank is ph 8.0, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, and nitrate .20 So I thought it would be time I could put the goby in there. He seemed ok for a couple hours, kinda looked like breathing heavy though, and then he started to swim to the top and jump. He landed back on the rock and next thing we knew he is on the sand dead. Could he have been sick from too high of ammonia in the quarantine tank? Or am I just not meant to have fish
