Ughh, Tank is dirty. I am loosing fish.

[sampsonndelila]

Thanks Penny, I just dont know how we can transport it. Yes It was not bright to change my pH so quickly I remember do it a while ago I thought I was suposta use the whole box of Baking soda. Well thats when things went bad I think. Thats pretty much the only way to raise your pH so fast. (Not recomemded) I lost a bar goby, Pseudo, and 2 clown fish at least. its sometimes hard to tell with so many fish. Thought about the tap water too. I dont know whats worse.

[Pennies2Cents]

Where there's a will there is a way. Anything to save a fish' life.... Call me if you need anything.....

[sampsonndelila]

I am filling 3 55 gal buckets with tap water for now.

[Pennies2Cents]

ok by this time tomorrow we should have some R/O for ya... Keep us posted...

[sampsonndelila]

TY I am looking for my silly hose to start draining it. I will have to start again tommorow.

[kkiel02]

With an established tank I am thinking you wont have any ammonia tomorrow. Maybe a little nitrite and of course nitrate but the nitrogen cycle can be quite quick with the correct bacteria. This is assuming all the dead organisms are out of the tank. Best of luck. But then again with the ph swing you might have killed off quite a bit of other stuff- bacteria, algae, etc. (which I hope isnt the case) Keep us posted.

[sampsonndelila]

100 gal change done, numbers looking much better. I found one anemone, he isn't dead. That was good news. I will do another smaller water change at the end of the week. I cleaned the skimmer and its running like a champ now!

[Big_Pun]

100 gal change done, numbers looking much better. I found one anemone, he isn't dead. That was good news. I will do another smaller water change at the end of the week. I cleaned the skimmer and its running like a champ now!

thats usually what it is just husbandry stuff, i took all my pumps and skimmer out and soaked in vineager last week, amazing how dirty stuff gets. so before this happen, how frequent where your water changes.

[danvan75]

when you soak in vineager, is it pure vineager or a vineager/water mix?

[Big_Pun]

when you soak in vineager, is it pure vineager or a vineager/water mix?

i do about 60/40 more vineager thats on the big pieces cuz i dont want to buy 3 gallons of vineager to fill the bucket up to put skimmer in, on small pumps and pieces ill fill a big bowl with just pure vinegear