Hi all, after 3 month of running well reef tank one the new animone died and crash all my tank I really lost my fishs and money  only two fishs survived foxface and blue and yellow damsil. And all coral they are fine. My question is how many water change I need before add new fishs? I think the acid was realy bad thing from animone it was hide between rocks and I don't think it was sick or not doing well cuz before 3 or 2 days it was in good condition. I did 10% water change with changing all media in the sumb and today also I well do one more. My tank is 200 gallon and my sump is 50 gallon with skimmer. Any suggestions? Thanx in advance
Animone died help
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Most say no anemones for at least 6+ months. Even in my established tNk they disappear all the time. How if flow?
And for fish. Where are you getting them. Newly captive fish like to die before the 3 month mark. Happens to me 8/10 times. I think I have a good one that will survive. Next thing you know they're missing. fish store fish come straight from a big ocean. Putting them in a small glass box stresses them out and kills them due to many reasons. #1 is we are trying to mimic the ocean . its hard to do so.
200g for a newbie. Good start! Start buying fish from reefers . none of mine ever dies. I learned that after hundreds and hundreds if dollars of dead fish from stores.
And for fish. Where are you getting them. Newly captive fish like to die before the 3 month mark. Happens to me 8/10 times. I think I have a good one that will survive. Next thing you know they're missing. fish store fish come straight from a big ocean. Putting them in a small glass box stresses them out and kills them due to many reasons. #1 is we are trying to mimic the ocean . its hard to do so.
200g for a newbie. Good start! Start buying fish from reefers . none of mine ever dies. I learned that after hundreds and hundreds if dollars of dead fish from stores.
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In regards to the tank crash, sorry about that. That really sucks.
I had an anemone that got shredded in a powerhead one time. Went to bed, nem was on a rock. Woke up and the entire tank was cloudy. I ended up tossing in a huge bag of carbon and had to go to work. Came home and did a 40G water change right away (tank was 120g + 40g sump). Then I did 30G water changes every other day until water cleared up. Not one thing died.
I had an anemone that got shredded in a powerhead one time. Went to bed, nem was on a rock. Woke up and the entire tank was cloudy. I ended up tossing in a huge bag of carbon and had to go to work. Came home and did a 40G water change right away (tank was 120g + 40g sump). Then I did 30G water changes every other day until water cleared up. Not one thing died.
Everyone has different things but what it looks like it comes down to the most is water change water change water change. I had a rose tip die on me before but luckily i have a weird psycho yellow tang that eats everything it can get its little mouth on. It ate up the anemone completely and nothing happened to him and he just saved my whole tank from a chaotic crash. So I guess I'm just one of those lucky guys that have crazy fish with unusual habits lol.
I'm sure after about 3, 30 gal water changes, you should be pretty good on adding fish again. And if adding another nem, I would recommend setting up a hospital/quarantine tank first and letting the nem sit in there for awhile using the same water for your display.
I'm sure after about 3, 30 gal water changes, you should be pretty good on adding fish again. And if adding another nem, I would recommend setting up a hospital/quarantine tank first and letting the nem sit in there for awhile using the same water for your display.
