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11/04/2005, 08:33 PM
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Fish Dieing. Territorail Perculas?
I have a 40 gallon tank with just two true perculas. About 3 weeks ago I bought an orange stipe goby and a royal gramma. The royal gramma was dead the same day and the goby last about 3 days. Wednesday I bought a fire fish and just found his body mutilated. He was definately eaten i'm not sure what happened it could have been the hermit crabs. I'm not sure if it' my water quality or not but my Percula's are happy and my corals are doing great.
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11/05/2005, 08:05 AM
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If there was enough aggression between fish to result in deaths you would most likely see it going on.
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11/05/2005, 01:25 PM
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Ya I've never seen it happen. By the way I found out the problem. I got my water tested and everything was fine except the salinity was like 1.026. I'm sure that was what was killing all the fish. I have a huge evaporation problem. like 5 gallons a week out of my 40 gallon. I've been replacing it with fresh water + some salt water and I guess after time it just got way too salty. Thanks for the replies.
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11/05/2005, 06:36 PM
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My 37g stays at 1.026 percs. and my new angle seem to be fine with it..
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11/05/2005, 06:42 PM
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I try to keep my tank at 1.025-1.027, so your salinity wasn't a problem. Unless it was a huge jump, but your fish were hardy so I don't think it was the salinity. You should only be topping off with FW though. That said, clownfish are technically damsels, and they can be very aggressive, especially a protective mother.
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11/05/2005, 06:49 PM
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I know alot of people that keep their salinity that high. I keep mine around 1.024-1.025
Did you acclimate the new fish? It could be a problem if they were in much lower salinity and you dumped them in. I agree if the clowns were killing them you should see them picking on them. Royal grammas usually fight back and can hide easily. If the tank is new maybe it is'nt cycled yet and the percs are used to it. Just guessing but I'd make sure the ammonia and nitrite are 0 before adding anything else. When you add the top off water you don't need to add salt as it does'nt evaporate. kass |
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11/05/2005, 08:25 PM
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HUH I don't know than. I had my water tested and everything was fine just the salinity was high. But it if the fish I was buying was used to a lower level salinity it would kill them right? I just bought a 6 line wrasse after I changed the water so I'm hoping he'll do ok.
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