I recently moved into a new apartment and with that, I upgraded from a 46gal to a 72gal. I had my original 3 fish, a empreor angel, hippo tang and maroon clown(all 6yrs old) in the old tank and decided to introduce 3 more with the new tank. I added a naso tang, lunar wrasse and a bengai cardinal. I'm using the old sumpump filter and old rocks.
1st week, everyone getting along great, looking healthy, enjoying life.
I go away for the long 4th weekend, friend swings by and feeds fish.
Come back, everyone is sluggish. No one is eating. Everyone is hanging out in a corner. My hippo is upside down sometimes in between rocks but mostly lying on its side. I've seen sick and/or dying fish...but he's still colorful and doesnt look like anything is wrong with him. My emperor had cloudy eyes for the past 36hrs....but those cleared up this morning.
I did a small water change (about 20gal) and that seemed to help the emperors eyes, but no one is eating and there just doesnt seem to be the vibrant life that there was last week.
Am I missing something?
My friend left a piece of romaine lettuce in the tank over the 4 days I was gone. I'm concerned that the lettuce rotted and now I'm dealing with some sort of disease.
My plan is to continue to do small water changes each day until whatever it is goes away. I also want to invevst in another filter as my water circulation isnt as good as I would like.
Thoughts?
Thanks.
1st week, everyone getting along great, looking healthy, enjoying life.
I go away for the long 4th weekend, friend swings by and feeds fish.
Come back, everyone is sluggish. No one is eating. Everyone is hanging out in a corner. My hippo is upside down sometimes in between rocks but mostly lying on its side. I've seen sick and/or dying fish...but he's still colorful and doesnt look like anything is wrong with him. My emperor had cloudy eyes for the past 36hrs....but those cleared up this morning.
I did a small water change (about 20gal) and that seemed to help the emperors eyes, but no one is eating and there just doesnt seem to be the vibrant life that there was last week.
Am I missing something?
My friend left a piece of romaine lettuce in the tank over the 4 days I was gone. I'm concerned that the lettuce rotted and now I'm dealing with some sort of disease.
My plan is to continue to do small water changes each day until whatever it is goes away. I also want to invevst in another filter as my water circulation isnt as good as I would like.
Thoughts?
Thanks.