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Starting from scratch

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sinkingbeach

I started to place rock in the new tank, when I went over to the holding tank I noticed a really bad smell, sure enough I lost all my fish. No reasoning water temp was 78.9, inverts are alive, some shrooms, zoa's, seem to be fine. Had to lie to Josh, telling him Rich was holding all the fish, please don't say anything to him about this Sat. as I will be replacing the fish one by one in the next week or two. Can't wait til this day is over :(
 
Phyl

Phyl

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Officer Emeritus
What pump/s did you have moving water? Breaking surface? Fish per gallon? Sounds like an O2 issue on the surface. Sorry, Francis. Ouch that hurts.
 
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Brian

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Sounds like something that would happen to me...oh wait, it has!

Sorry to hear about that Francis! Good luck faking Josh out!
 
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billyr98

samething happen to me when i started up my 450g... i lost a percentage of mine, not all of them, I believe my reason was a O2 problem.. good luck!
 
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BobCReef

bummer Francis. Hope you can find replacements. Sounds like a lot of people think it was O2. How big was the holding tank? Did you have some flow in there?
 
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sinkingbeach

It was a 55g drum, with a single tunze 6060 pushing water, had 2 tangs, flame angel, 2 chromi, swallowtail angel and a blue headed wrasse along with maybe 30lbs of rock placed in first, used a second drum for the remaining rock.
 
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