Clowns?

[IceTurf]

temp: 76
Ammonia: should be around 0, 0-1, although I should test again
n02 normal
n03 unknown
Other factors:
turned the pump on, they started movin to the surface but swimming well, lookin for food it appeared, then about 20 min later they stopped movin so much

Yestorday, my hermit decided to come out of its shell and couldn't get back in when it tried the next day

Could be when I turned the pump on I burst a bubble algea, but I don't see any and there weren't any last time I checked

[ron101]

Originally Posted by IceTurf

temp: 76
Ammonia: should be around 0, 0-1, although I should test again
n02 normal
n03 unknown
Other factors:
turned the pump on, they started movin to the surface but swimming well, lookin for food it appeared, then about 20 min later they stopped movin so much

You don't want to know what those parameters should be but what they actuallyare. Ammonia and nitrite (NO2) need to be zero or near zero - 'normal' won't cut it. If clowns (assuming they were healthy to begin with) are dying there is something seriously wrong with your parameters.

Need to know this:
- size of original tank?
- how long was original tank running?
- what livestock, how much live rock, and what other filtration was in original tank?
- size of new tank?
- how much live rock carried over, what other filtration carried over, any new liverock or filtration?
- how long has new tank been setup and what livestock was in there before the clowns?

Lastly measure ammonia and nitrite! Nitrate would be helpful too.

Originally Posted by IceTurf

Could be when I turned the pump on I burst a bubble algea, but I don't see any and there weren't any last time I checked.

Not a problem...

[IceTurf]

lol I guessed that something was majorely wrong when one died.

[ron101]

http://www.fishlore.com/NitrogenCycle.htm

[IceTurf]

got the very same thing in a book on my shelf, although everything except for about 40% new pure water is from the same store where I got the corals and clowns from. All healthy when I got them. I know I messed up somewhere but I think my nitro cycle is fine *not saying that I could be totally wrong*

[IceTurf]

hmm one thing i was thinking just now, I got a compact flouresent light and the dude selling me this stuff had a metal hylide, do you guys find that corals go white in areas directly in the path of the light when the type of light is changed?

[bubblepuffer]

any dead or artificial deco in the tank ? that might release some poison. Is your Hydrometer working fine? those thing sometimes acting weird and way out of scale.

[IceTurf]

I dont' really have no way of knowing if my hydrometer isn't workin, no there isn't anything fake in the tank, nothing made of metal that I know of and i checked everything before I put it in. Ok nvm about the clowns, last one died as of a few min ago, some coral around the bottom of the main colony i bought still has color, some has color because of coralline algea growth, but the stuff that hasn't been taken over by coralline algea near the base of the coral still has color so there is some hope yet. The other coral has plenty of color since I turned off my light, ok not plenty, but its still fairly green/red and for 2 full hours, its color hasnt gone down. I suppose its now saving the coral, any ideas? Theres no flow, I turned everything except for the heater off. They are acropora corals, one is a large colony, and the other one a fragement. Water looks almost cloudy white.