Losing fish need help to fix tank levels

[Escalera23]

So the other day I lost my blue hippo tang and then I did a 30% water change and today I found 3 more fish dead so I tested my water again and my levels are Ph 8.2 ammonia 0.25 nitrite 0 nitrate 10 phosphate 0.25. Wanted to see what I should do to get these levels down and what I should be doing before I start to add fish again. Any info or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks

 

[joseserrano]

Water changes, and more bacteria. You don't have enough bacteria in the tank to convert the amount of waste ammonia all the way through to Nitrate. Also make sure to double check test kits. Water could be fine, and it mite be a parasites or fish disease killing these guys

 

[Zoarder]

Need more info to help you out. Tank size, sump? skimmer? how stablished is the tank? did you QT the fish? Being that you added a blue tang, my guess is ick.

 

[goliwala]

How is the temperature holding up in your tank? your params are not bad enough to kill fish (unless .25 is a false reading and its actually lot more then that). Make sure there is plenty of flow in the tank. I used BioSpera to cycle my tank and it was turning Ammonia to 0 in 24 hours, try that.

 

[djam]

I would suspect your water has some type of contamination to kill fish that fast with those numbers. Do you have grounding wires in place, maybe a short?

Did the fish act funny before they died?

 

[gumbii]

i blame [MENTION=4792]pgr11[/MENTION]'s mom....

 

[Escalera23]

So my whole set up is 130 gal tank with a 60 gal refugium underneath. I have all live sand and rock in both the tank and sump. Also have a jebao rw8 wavemaker. Also the has been up for 11 months. All the fish have been in the tank for 6+ months just fine. Also added 3 frags of polyps and zoa but the frags were in the tank for a good month before my fish started dieing. Could frags give a fish a disease?. The temp holds at 75-78 all the time nothing out of that range.

 

[gumbii]

So my whole set up is 130 gal tank with a 60 gal refugium underneath. I have all live sand and rock in both the tank and sump. Also have a jebao rw8 wavemaker. Also the has been up for 11 months. All the fish have been in the tank for 6+ months just fine. Also added 3 frags of polyps and zoa but the frags were in the tank for a good month before my fish started dieing. Could frags give a fish a disease?. The temp holds at 75-78 all the time nothing out of that range.

edit: wrong thread...

anyways....


yes, the water in the coral's bag can contain bugs...