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jedimaster1138

jedimaster1138

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Been doing 20%'s every other day... was planning on a 50% tonight. Bah. It makes me sad seeing the other clown swimming around looking for his buddy. He was totally staring at my net etc as I was trying to extract the lost one.

Did the 50% change and put in the new skimmer. UV coming soon. Fraking frak.
 
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andylee

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Is your water clear yet? Would suggest not adding anything else until you figure out what the problem was. Doubt that it's a mechanical filtration problem. Many people don't use any mechanical filtration and have no problems with cloudiness.
 
jedimaster1138

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As of last night...

Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0
pH 8.3 - ish
sg 1.025
temp 77

50g tank with a 12g sump. I had been using a Tunze 9002 skimmer, since replaced with a Reef Octopus NWB 110 last night. 2x Hydor Evo 550's on a controller alternating on/off every hour. (recently removed and scrubbed)

40 lbs of Fiji standard LR from LiveAquaria later supplemented with 10 of dry branch from BRS.

I drain via LifeReef HOB overflow. Return via a Sicce 2.0 (also recently removed and scrubbed) that I split to either side of the tank. Mix of sch 40 PVC and vinyl flex to black j tubes. I've seen some brown, then green and some coraline algae growth.

Caribsea sand... ~2" Fiji white.

BRS Reactor running ROX .8 carbon and GFO. Cleaned out and replaced 2x. Also now have a bag of carbon sitting in the return section.

Refugium with 5x red mangroves (at least one growing roots already) 1 green graclia, 1 red, and a ball of chaeto. All from Reefcleaners.org. I spoke to John from there, he verified those species wouldn't cause a white cloud issue. I had had another ball of chaeto that died off due to my using a bad light. I just removed it the other day when i noticed it was falling apart.

Lights are all LED from Ecoxotic. I go dark for 3 or 4 hours over night, wrapped by a blue stunner that follows and precedes the day lights.

Reefcrystals salt only.

Recent copepod bloom. Have seen lots in both the sump and the DT.
Several dozen dwarf cerith snails
3 BIG turbos
less than 10 nassarius snails
~ dwarf planaxis snails
less than 10 astrea coneheads
a few dwarf blue leg hermits and scarlet hermits
2x chromis viridis from BlueZoo
Prior to yesterday, 2x ocellaris clownfish, now just 1. :-(

I feed spectrum small fish only at this point. They gobble it up.

Is there something I should test for that I'm not? I recently bought Ca, Mg and KH kits (Salifert) but only used them once because I wasn't really ready for coral yet anyway... now that's on indefinite hold
 
jedimaster1138

jedimaster1138

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Yup. Purchased at the same time from the same tank at MA. I'd say... 1 1/2 inches? They looked healthy, as did the other clowns in the tank. Came right up to the glass both there and later at my house when i or my gf would approach. She even took to talking to them and they seemed to watch her standing there.

They did everything together, seemed to be friends. I definitely saw so sign of violence.

Now that I think about it, the one that died might have been a little more ... lazy in recent days. Though honestly, it's hard to tell with the water being cloudy I chalked it up to them being ticked off at that. I also see no sign of disease on their bodies, but again, cloudy water makes it hard to be definitive with that. I pretty much have my nose on the glass when they eat though so I'd see something obvious. No Ich or Brooklynella. Don't see fin damage, rot, eye issues or teeth marks.
 
xxxAngeloxxx

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jedimaster1138 said:
Yup. Purchased at the same time from the same tank at MA. I'd say... 1 1/2 inches? They looked healthy, as did the other clowns in the tank. Came right up to the glass both there and later at my house when i or my gf would approach. She even took to talking to them and they seemed to watch her standing there.

They did everything together, seemed to be friends. I definitely saw so sign of violence.

Now that I think about it, the one that died might have been a little more ... lazy in recent days. Though honestly, it's hard to tell with the water being cloudy I chalked it up to them being ticked off at that. I also see no sign of disease on their bodies, but again, cloudy water makes it hard to be definitive with that. I pretty much have my nose on the glass when they eat though so I'd see something obvious. No Ich or Brooklynella. Don't see fin damage, rot, eye issues or teeth marks.
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most likely while you was sleeping this is when your other clown could of attacked the other clown. im not saying it really did happen but it could of. plus you couldn't tell because the tank was cloudy and you cant tell was going on while the lights are off at night.
 
jedimaster1138

jedimaster1138

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Certainly possible. I'm not ruling anything out.

There's this though... on Monday that clown's color was off. He looked... yellow-ish and hung out near the bottom a lot. Same thing Tuesday morning. Still looking...not orange and white but more yellow and off white. That to me says disease, but I'm not a marine biologist so I'll leave it at that. (can fish go into liver failure? yellow usually means that in humans...)
 
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