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gone postal · 06-28-2008, 07:59 AM

Well, I woke up this morning to find my lemonpeel on its side on the bottom of the tank. It's not quite dead yet, but I moved it around w/ my net and if you get it into the water column, it just floats around w/ the current barely moving any fins and sinks back down to the bottom. Seems as if it's only a matter of time and I have to leave for work in 15 minutes. This will be my first loss and it sucks. All my other fish are doing great, so I don't know if he had problems to start with or if the water change just affected him in a way that didn't bother the other fish.

Yeah, I am planning on adding a skimmer and will probably do that ASAP. I'll also cut back the feeding to every other day. My intentions are for a fish only setup for now and figured I'd give the reef thing a try in a year or so - I want to get comfortable w/ maintaining a tank properly for awhile before I dive head first into something even more sensitive & complicated. I will of course be getting rid of the wet/dry at that time.

06-28-2008, 07:59 AM	#4 (permalink)
gone postal Bryozoan Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: St. Augustine, FL Posts: 58 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Can a tank cycle and not have an algae bloom? Otherwise how am I doing? Well, I woke up this morning to find my lemonpeel on its side on the bottom of the tank. It's not quite dead yet, but I moved it around w/ my net and if you get it into the water column, it just floats around w/ the current barely moving any fins and sinks back down to the bottom. Seems as if it's only a matter of time and I have to leave for work in 15 minutes. This will be my first loss and it sucks. All my other fish are doing great, so I don't know if he had problems to start with or if the water change just affected him in a way that didn't bother the other fish. Yeah, I am planning on adding a skimmer and will probably do that ASAP. I'll also cut back the feeding to every other day. My intentions are for a fish only setup for now and figured I'd give the reef thing a try in a year or so - I want to get comfortable w/ maintaining a tank properly for awhile before I dive head first into something even more sensitive & complicated. I will of course be getting rid of the wet/dry at that time.