uh oh

[Der_Iron_Chef]

What inverts do you have?

[Jason McK]

Really Zero Nitrates with all that fish.
Have you ever tested your tank for the levels of the addatives you are adding? Most of them contain trace elements of something else you where adding. I would imagine your trace elements are over the safe levels.

Sorry to hear your losses


J

[24storm]

With a 4" sand bed and adding the power heads how much did you disturb the sand. When did you do your testing? before the lose or after? If it was before how long before you added the new power heads? My guess is you release a lot of stuff in the sand bed.

Keith

[Reefhawk1]

Is it possible you had a nitrate spike? you have a reading of 5 is this normal for your tank?

When you changed your power heads did the flow increase disturb the sand bed?

[tgoeujon]

i think i found the problem. i was focusing on the fish and inverts and missed something obvious. my magnificent anemone was missing. found him chewed up in the pump. dont know why the testing didnt show anything wierd though. time for a new test kit im thinking. thanks for all the suggestions im hoping that was the problem. the powerheads dont seem to be disturbing the sandbed noticeably

[banditpowdercoat]

Anemone chewed in pump, darn. Glad I went closed loop, no powerheads in my tank. I hope thats the cause. Sure is alot of fish$$$ to lose all at once

[tgoeujon]

it was a painful loss but i was way overstocked though now i can work more on my corals without the fish in the way. turns out there are 4 fish left. a percula, a scooter blenny, a yellow spotted tilefish and a citron goby. hopefully they make it to the new tank

[brizzo]

Originally Posted by tgoeujon

i dose with iodine, coral accel, strontium and molybdenum, purple up, liquid reactor, i stick to dosing instructions on the bottles.

Originally Posted by Jason McK

Have you ever tested your tank for the levels of the addatives you are adding? Most of them contain trace elements of something else you where adding. I would imagine your trace elements are over the safe levels.

You must test trace levels if you're going to be dosing!

[fkshiu]

That's a lot of trace elements you're dosing. You're LFS must be happy -

While I do agree it was probably an ammonia spike from the anemone dieing, certain trace elements can be toxic in elevated levels. Others are correct: you shouldn't dose if you aren't testing for that specific thing regardless of what the bottles say.

You should have to dose half the periodic table in any event if you are doing regular water changes.