LgIslandreefers
07/04/2001, 10:38 AM
Hi all,
I found my wrasse dead and my purple tang gasping for air yesterday morning :eek:. The water pump had gotten clogged preventing the tank from getting oxygen :eek1:. I took Purple out and placed him in my 20 gal long. Surprisingly he recovered in a few minutes and even accepted food 10 minutes later :) . Meanwhile, we did a 42 gal water change in the 92 gal tank (a lot of swimming space), cleaned sump and plumbing before turning on the system again. The parameters were back to normal, back to what they had been for 6 months, when I tested a few hours later;
Oxygen: 7
Ph: 8
Temperature: 83
Ammonia & Nitrites: 0
Nitrates: 45(Dr Ron said under 100 it doesn't affect fish or corals)
Phosphates: 1 (LR must leak phosphates, Phosphates have always been at 1 in my system)
Calcium: 385 (because there was no kalk dripping when I tested)
Until now our tang had been really healthy thanks to a balanced diet of gracilaria live seaweed, brown dry seaweed selects, and frozen formula 1 & 2.
We put him back in the 92 gal, he panicked, bumped into rocks but calmed down rapidly, went fine through the day, we turned off the lights around 1 am to find Purple going crazy a few minutes later, up and down, back and forth, very rapidly, bumping into rocks,we waited 15 minutes but he wouldn't calm down :(. We felt he was going to have an heart attack and we would find him dead in the morning. Back to the 20 gal he went and that's where he remained calm.
Did he see a ghost? Is his nervous system damaged from lack of oxygen the previous night or was he panicking remembering what had happened to him the night before when the lights went off? :confused: He seems now happy in the 20 gal long, calm and colorful, eating. I'm afraid of putting him back in the 92 gal. Help! Thanks. :(
Aurore.
I found my wrasse dead and my purple tang gasping for air yesterday morning :eek:. The water pump had gotten clogged preventing the tank from getting oxygen :eek1:. I took Purple out and placed him in my 20 gal long. Surprisingly he recovered in a few minutes and even accepted food 10 minutes later :) . Meanwhile, we did a 42 gal water change in the 92 gal tank (a lot of swimming space), cleaned sump and plumbing before turning on the system again. The parameters were back to normal, back to what they had been for 6 months, when I tested a few hours later;
Oxygen: 7
Ph: 8
Temperature: 83
Ammonia & Nitrites: 0
Nitrates: 45(Dr Ron said under 100 it doesn't affect fish or corals)
Phosphates: 1 (LR must leak phosphates, Phosphates have always been at 1 in my system)
Calcium: 385 (because there was no kalk dripping when I tested)
Until now our tang had been really healthy thanks to a balanced diet of gracilaria live seaweed, brown dry seaweed selects, and frozen formula 1 & 2.
We put him back in the 92 gal, he panicked, bumped into rocks but calmed down rapidly, went fine through the day, we turned off the lights around 1 am to find Purple going crazy a few minutes later, up and down, back and forth, very rapidly, bumping into rocks,we waited 15 minutes but he wouldn't calm down :(. We felt he was going to have an heart attack and we would find him dead in the morning. Back to the 20 gal he went and that's where he remained calm.
Did he see a ghost? Is his nervous system damaged from lack of oxygen the previous night or was he panicking remembering what had happened to him the night before when the lights went off? :confused: He seems now happy in the 20 gal long, calm and colorful, eating. I'm afraid of putting him back in the 92 gal. Help! Thanks. :(
Aurore.