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RyanMcLaughlin
03/12/2008, 11:33 PM
I just put my fish into qt about 5 days ago and all was fine. They were eating but ammonia got high so I did a water change and it dropped back to zero. Do you think its was stress of qt or maybe the other clownfish. It is a 40 gallon tank. If so this is the second clown that died and was thinking would I be better off getting rid of this one and buying a mated pair?
BLKTANG
03/12/2008, 11:41 PM
I wouldnt get another fish until your parameters get stable.Sorry about your little Nemo.
RyanMcLaughlin
03/12/2008, 11:45 PM
I didnt plan on it until I put them back into my Display but would you reccommend another or just spending the money on the mated pair?
BLKTANG
03/12/2008, 11:53 PM
Well its easy enough to buy 2 clowns at the same time,& let them determine.Mated clowns can be pricy.
Blown 346
03/13/2008, 12:14 AM
How did you setup the QT? I always do a waterchange on my maintank and add say for your tank 20 gallons of water atleast. This way you wont cycle ro have anytype of porblem.

I would avoid getting another clown at this point. Mated pairs can be quiet aggressive towards anothe clown or the otherway around.
RyanMcLaughlin
03/13/2008, 12:41 AM
I filled a little less than half with water from my main tank and filled the rest w/ Distilled water so I could get hypo salinity. Then I drip acclimated the fish for about 3 hours until params were =.
kzickovich
03/13/2008, 06:17 AM
How are you checking your salt? If your using a swing arm you may be to low on salt those things are always off.
RyanMcLaughlin
03/13/2008, 04:24 PM
I am using a read sea swing arm and it has never let me down. All the other fish are doing great.
kzickovich
03/13/2008, 05:32 PM
when your talking hypo you should use a refractometer. SG goes to 1.009 in hypo the SG that a fish most have is 1.008. You shouldn't trust that to a swing arm.
styndall
03/13/2008, 06:04 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12078077#post12078077 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RyanMcLaughlin
I filled a little less than half with water from my main tank and filled the rest w/ Distilled water so I could get hypo salinity. Then I drip acclimated the fish for about 3 hours until params were =.

What level of hypo did this method leave you with? You might have used too much distilled water, leaving your salinity too low.

If you really need to hyposalinate your fish, start them in a tank with normal salinity, then lower the salinity to 1.009 over the course of a week or two. You'll cause much less stress and probably won't see any more deaths.