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I need help, anyone in Spring/The Woodlands/Conroe (1 Viewer)

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I need someone with an established QT tank that can hold a few fish for me for a little while.

I am having major problems, turns out a fish got crushed by a rock in my holding tubs, so the water went to hell, 2 more fish died from that, and now the rest are looking majorly stressed.


Please let me know if you have a tank that can house a pair of GS Maroons, and a medium antennata lionfish.

So far, I've lost a regal tang, a purple pseudo (was going to be sold and instead got crushed), and an orange tailed blue damsel....
My yellow tang, not sure about , clowns look stressed, lionfish stressed....
 
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ouch -- wish I could help but my tank is to small. MMaddox is close by you and has a 40G he might be able to help. If you dont see him on here you can try on Yahoo messenger as d2rhino. If you cant get him there I can give you his e-mail address.
 
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I've got some chromis in my QT right now - I'm afraid they would be lunch for your lionfish.
 
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If you can't find anything else, you can put them in my main tank, but I can only keep them for 2 weeks.
 
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I can add my yellow tang and LARGE bubble tip anemone to the list of casualties....
Just dropped a large bag of carbon in the tub.
 
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I don't know what to do now... I don't know wether or not to wait it out till morning to see how everything looks or what......
 
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Oh, and before anyone asks what my water is testing at.... don't bother, I don't own any test kits....
 
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Add a very large lawnmower blenny to the list, he's MIA...
Torch coral appears to be on its last leg now...

I'm in the process of patch working to close the holes for my closed loop, so I can at least get some water in the tank and try to create a larger volume of water for them to be in....
I had a 35 gallon trash can in the garage with LR that had been running for about a month and a half... praying that water is in decent condition, now gonna start making more water in that trash can...
 
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Wierdest thing just happened, the tub of death (as it is now knowns) which I've treated like that for the last couple hours, pretty much pulled everything I could from it, left the water, the LR, threw the calurpa from my fuge in it, since I needed to empty my fuge, just been kinda dumping stuff in it that I have no where else to put right now... anyhow, in all that, I'm sitting here resting for a few minutes and I see something jump out of the water, went right back in, I have no idea what it was. Maybe my missing lawnmower? Great... now I have to get all messy again to find out what it was.
 
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what do ya know, it was the lawnmower blenny, he landed on top of the mound of calurpa and got stuck.

He looks like he's at deaths door, maybe he realized he was going to die in that tub so he decided to make an escape attempt....
 
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Ah yes, and the hits keep coming. So he makes a desperate attempt at survival and allows me to see him, What do I do? I take him and drop him into the main tank that I'm trying to get ready for everything, thinking, well, since I thought he was dead, he can be the guinea pig in the main tank.
So just for kicks and giggles I decide to check the salinity on the main tank, and my water is always 1.021 - 1.022, somehow I got it up to 1.030...
Nice huh.
 
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Sorry about all the headaches with the tank.

I don't have my QT running or I would have called.

I have alot of misc PVC items left over if you still need some.
 
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Hi, sorry to hear about all the problems. I also live in Spring and can lend you a 23 gallon sump if you can use it. It's big enough to hold your Lion fish until things stabilize. Just drop a small power head in it and I'm sure he would be OK for a while, or at least until you can get your main tank squared away. It's 25 L x 12 W x 18 deep

I did this with a yellow tank a while back and he did just fine in it for about a week.
 
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For whatever reason, and I've never had this happen before, seems like the water in every tub is turning to crap....

I can understand water going bad with a crushed fish decomposing in it, but the other two aren't doing well either, one seriosly looks like a fricken swamp, so something must have died in there too..... The only one that looks clear is the one that now has the lionfish and clowns in it, its got powerheads , heater, airstone, carbon.... only thing I haven't done is put my bakpak skimmer on it (which i'm close to doing).... if they die in there from poor water...... I'll just say screw it and be done for a while....
Never had water go bad like this, then again, I've never crushed a fish or had a dead fish in one of these tubs before when doing any moving or tank work.
 
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I had a similar problem when I upgraded tanks. I put all the fish and corals in 2 buckets, each with a powerhead for circulation. All of the fish in one bucket did fine. In the other bucket, 2 fish died while in there, and another one almost died but I noticed it acting stressed and moved it to the good bucket, where it immediately started looking better.

I can't explain it. The only theory I really have is that maybe one of the corals in the "bad" bucket was stressed out from the move and released something noxious which fouled the water.
 
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Bill, it sounds to me like the tubs are becoming anoxic. Do you have much circulation in there? I've done what you are doing many times and the key to success is having enough live rock and circulation in the tubs. If, for example, you had a protein skimmer on the main tank, and you don't (well can't) have it running in the tubs, the O2 will drop substantially and rapidly. I always run a bunch of powerheads with the venturis attached and air stones.

But, man, I'm sorry. I wish I had some room for your critters but my advice would be to do 50-75% water changes ASAP and get some serious circulation and air into the tubs.

Good luck,
Darrell
 
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