having issues

[reeferfriendly]

i should start by saying this is in my girlfriends tank not my 120. we came home today and her blue dot jawfish looks like his skin is melting off and also her dusky has pop eye and the green mandarin is puffy with slight skin melting under his jaw. first thing i thought was ammonia so we ran test and paramaters are perfect across the board . so just to double check i took a sample to the LFS and again same results perfect .tank is roughly 100 gallon lee mar mixed reef mostly zoa, rics , shrooms , gorgs , pipefish , gobies,and blennies.1.15 in deepsand bed . a few others are starting to show small signs of skin irritations also. any ideas what the heck this is?

[Emster]

Does she wear perfume on the wrists and got in the tank? I know a guy that had cologne on his hands and put them in his tank on accident, all his fish died but the corals made it. Just a thought

[reeferfriendly]

we are running back thru here mind (scary) trying to link it . she is very very carefull to not put hands in tank after loation or recent dish soap contact etc ... but no body is flawless so i am wondering.i have tampa snooker on his way now to look i hope he knows what it is and how to fix it. I owe him big my girlfriend just pulled him and his wife out of dinner at melting pot ( for his wifes birthday) to come help . will post with any changes . also will check thread every 15 minutes or so while i am making water,and setting up QT etc .

[reeferfriendly]

ok think we may of had a rare event that i can not explain in detail so tampa snooker may be able to write up the description of what may have caused this.

[leftcoastreefer]

are you running carbon in a reactor?

[reeferfriendly]

no i just put a media bag in tonight with carbon. roughly we think that the young sand bed may have had some gas (he had a name for it) in a pocket that the destructive little jawfish dug up . since he digs with his mouth it was basically an acid bath in his face. since the other fish that seem effected the most are also nearby sand dwellers it sort of makes since . i will let him go into detail so i dont screw it up and post bad info .

[oldsaint]

Sounds like a hydrogen sulfide issue.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-12/rhf/index.php
Curious how deep is your sand bed and how long has the tank running?

[reeferfriendly]

that is the gas he said . current rock and most livestock were together aabout 1.5-2 years .about 3-4 months ago we set her up a new tank with a fresh 1.5 inch sand bed and transferred everything else.we have added a few fish such as gobies/blennies. so the gas theory seems to be making sense

[dogstsx]

Woow reefer. Hope everything works out 4 ya.

[reeferfriendly]

ya it sux i waited for ever to finally bite the bullet and shell out for that damn bluespot and of coarse he is the one that gets it.the tank that is acting up is the one you guys saw across from my 120. so you know why i was caught by surprise.

[dogstsx]

ya thats ur wifes tank right? the softies. It looked real good just a few days ago

[reeferfriendly]

ya still looks great other then the couple fish. seems like nothing got worse thru the night . the blue dot did join arnolds goldfish abraham(whatchu talkin about willis?) in the septic cemetery . the rest of the affected fish seem to be improving so we will see. gonna run heavy carbon, skim wet and do a few small WC and hope it was just a freak thing.

[TampaSnooker]

no i just put a media bag in tonight with carbon. roughly we think that the young sand bed may have had some gas (he had a name for it) in a pocket that the destructive little jawfish dug up . since he digs with his mouth it was basically an acid bath in his face. since the other fish that seem effected the most are also nearby sand dwellers it sort of makes since . i will let him go into detail so i dont screw it up and post bad info .

I hope everything settled down. You said it about right - combine the addition of a burrower with a quasi DSB and failure of a nearby circulation pump that usually aims at the surface, hydrogen sulfide from under the rock likely burned the nearby bottom dwellers and was not dissipated like it might have been. pH dropped to 7.8. Hope the Kalk got you back in line - it was late - did you get a chance to retest?

I saw an otter in the woods today :)

[reeferfriendly]

did you bring him home? that is what i can do with jens old 75 !!!! lol

[TampaSnooker]

I was going to trade you for tangs