Tank looks good in the morning, when I come back from work everything is dying - Page 2

aagelly · 07/09/2008, 11:52 AM

Well the ammonia levels were going down slowly last night. This morning we are at about .5-1.0. So the water changes and Prime is definately helping.

The rest of our fish are still alive. The spike wiped out our abundant supply of copepods and trigger pods, so if the mandarin lives through this, it might be very hungry for the next couple of days. We lost two corals for sure. The others are still looking bad, but are recoverable.

I contacted the apartments and they said the Exterminator definitely did not come any sooner and he will definitely not come tomorrow.

So by process of elimination we suspect the roomate. Since we do not have any hard evidence (besides what we have listed before) we are not accusing him. We are simply telling him he has till the end of this week to get out.

Thank you for your concerns. I will post more updates as soon as they become available.

otrlynn · 07/09/2008, 12:00 PM

Good, glad things are looking up. You've been successful in dropping the ammonia a considerable amount since the first post. Hope it continues to go well.

ser_renely · 07/09/2008, 01:30 PM

glad the tank is on the rebound!

I don't see how the process of elimination would work suspecting a roommate, at least from these posts. Seems too strange, unless this is someone you have never trusted in the first place.

I guess thats another whole topic.

vader88 · 07/09/2008, 01:57 PM

That's a real bummer, especially if a roommate did it. Your doing very good to control yourself. No one, and I mean no one puts a hand in my tank. Not even my father and he buys livestock for it it. Everyone knows it is my baby and while I'm a nice guy, I would get ugly if someone purposely did something to my tank.

Michael · 07/09/2008, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by aagelly
Well the ammonia levels were going down slowly last night. This morning we are at about .5-1.0. So the water changes and Prime is definately helping.

The rest of our fish are still alive. The spike wiped out our abundant supply of copepods and trigger pods, so if the mandarin lives through this, it might be very hungry for the next couple of days. We lost two corals for sure. The others are still looking bad, but are recoverable.

I contacted the apartments and they said the Exterminator definitely did not come any sooner and he will definitely not come tomorrow.

So by process of elimination we suspect the roomate. Since we do not have any hard evidence (besides what we have listed before) we are not accusing him. We are simply telling him he has till the end of this week to get out.

Thank you for your concerns. I will post more updates as soon as they become available.

gosh the mandarin, hope it lives, the good news is most fish can go a couple of weeks without food, im keeping everything crossed for you, hope the mandy makes it their gorgeous, all my very best to you

Rae C. · 07/09/2008, 06:59 PM

So how's the tank looking today? We are all waiting to hear good news!

Rae C

aagelly · 07/10/2008, 07:17 AM

Sadly no improvement since yesterday except another coral died.

Michael · 07/10/2008, 07:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by aagelly
Sadly no improvement since yesterday except another coral died.

oh-no thats terrible, have you got a understanding friend somewhere who can help with your stock, like take the mandy off your hands for a bit until you sort the problem, still thinking about your situation, bad news this, hope things improve

otrlynn · 07/10/2008, 10:15 AM

How are the water parameters? Are you still doing water changes? Do you have an old HOB filter you could put a filter cartridge (or fine mesh bag) of (rinsed) carbon in? I figure it couldn't hurt and might help, since you really don't know what's in the tank. Actually if you have coral dying and/or sliming off, this idea sounds even better... Good luck and please keep us posted.

aagelly · 07/10/2008, 11:40 AM

The ammonia levels (as of this morning) are still between .5 and 1.0. We are still doing water changes so hopefully it goes down some more overnight. We put a carbon bag in the very first day of things going nuts.

Thanks for the well wishes.

We will keep you updated.

MinnFish · 07/10/2008, 11:47 AM

What are the nitrites reading? Livestock still in QT?

ahullsb · 07/10/2008, 06:29 PM

I hope everything is getting better. You still have no idea what the source was? I might consider finding a temporary home for the mandarin until you get your pod population back up. Unless it eats a lot of frozen, it's health might slowly deteriorate over the next few weeks.

Percula9 · 07/10/2008, 10:18 PM

Sorry this happened, this is obviously sabotage by the roommate. Even if you fix the problem with the tank what's to stop him from doing it again. What is he doing with a bottle of ammonia any way. Smoking gun.

Percula9 · 07/10/2008, 10:29 PM

Sorry this happened, this is obviously sabotage by the roommate. Even if you fix the problem with the tank what's to stop him from doing it again. What is he doing with a bottle of ammonia any way. Smoking gun.

Flipper62 · 07/10/2008, 10:48 PM

Sorry to here about the loss.....But some time this his how it works.

Even if you told the landlord...He may of said....spray anyway. I cant take the chance of bugs from your apt getting into the other apts.....

Also....alot of times the landlord just give the sprayer the pass key. He may of told the sprayer.....but he just went into every apt & forgot.

I am a landlord & I know this can happen.

My sugestion to you is....Next time that they are comming to spray. Put a sign on you door that says....PLEASE DO NOT SPRAY THIS UNIT.....ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CALL ME AT ---/---/---- OR CALL THE LANDLORD.

Zestay · 07/10/2008, 10:49 PM

ammonia... maybe he pee'd in your tank. that can spike ammonia instantly.

Flipper62 · 07/10/2008, 10:56 PM

PS to my above post.

YA....what is the roomate doing with a jug of ammonia???

This mite sound bad....BUT, if you lick your finger & touch the base boards around the kitchen...Then touch your tongue, You will know if they realy did spray or not. YA..YA... go rince your tongue with water. If you just touch your tongue, it wont hurt you....Just dont drag your tongue around on all the base boards in the entire unit

NOW you will know if its the room mate

chatyak · 07/10/2008, 11:19 PM

Sounds like roomy needs a taste of their own medicine....

Flipper62 · 07/10/2008, 11:32 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by chatyak
Sounds like roomy needs a taste of their own medicine....

Sounds like its 1 of 2 people.....The room mate or the bug sprayer

Before you punish the room mate......Make sure it wasn't the bug guy.

Then...question the room mate...see if he cracks....tell him...Hey, just confess....its all cool.

If he cracks...................Drop acid in his next beer & see how he likes it..........LOL....

Just kidding

Magga Pie · 07/10/2008, 11:37 PM

I would for sure fight if someone did that to my tank!! Sorry to hear about your tank situation hope everything gets back to normal soon

Michael · 07/10/2008, 11:44 PM

well 1 thing is for sure something nasty has got in there during the time you was at work, going to be hard to prove, gotta start again with the basics and keep it on track and just hope whoever was responsible for the demise understands from your sadness at present that it was a foolish thing to do

chatyak · 07/11/2008, 12:45 AM

Prove it's the roomy! Put this in your room. (Simple Google search)
http://www.spytechs.com/hidden_video/plant_2400.htm

haha

07/09/2008, 12:00 PM	#27
otrlynn Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Chester County PA Posts: 1,508	Good, glad things are looking up. You've been successful in dropping the ammonia a considerable amount since the first post. Hope it continues to go well. __________________ Lynn 1 horse, 1 dog, 2 cats, small pond with a few koi. The fish tank is gone.

07/09/2008, 01:30 PM	#28
ser_renely Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,820	glad the tank is on the rebound! I don't see how the process of elimination would work suspecting a roommate, at least from these posts. Seems too strange, unless this is someone you have never trusted in the first place. I guess thats another whole topic. __________________ RIP: Osc. Clown - Ammonia, YW GobY - overflow, YW Goby - Pistol shrimp, Firefish - acclimation. 5 Fire fish - pistol shrimp, Mandarin - Pistol shrimp!!!!! Current Tank Info: 60g Cube, 15g sump/fuge,Tunze 9010 skimmer, Reefbreeders Photon 16" - 2 Osc. Clowns,2 Lyretail Anthias, Blue Chromis, mp20, mp10....another DAMN pistol shrimp!

07/09/2008, 06:59 PM	#31
Rae C. Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Colorado Posts: 916	So how's the tank looking today? We are all waiting to hear good news! Rae C __________________ Rae C It's 8:30, kids. Turn off the tank and go to bed! Current Tank Info: 65 gal, softies, 1 mandarine, 1 clown

07/10/2008, 10:15 AM	#34
otrlynn Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Chester County PA Posts: 1,508	How are the water parameters? Are you still doing water changes? Do you have an old HOB filter you could put a filter cartridge (or fine mesh bag) of (rinsed) carbon in? I figure it couldn't hurt and might help, since you really don't know what's in the tank. Actually if you have coral dying and/or sliming off, this idea sounds even better... Good luck and please keep us posted. __________________ Lynn 1 horse, 1 dog, 2 cats, small pond with a few koi. The fish tank is gone.

07/10/2008, 11:47 AM	#36
MinnFish Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Home of 10,000 lakes Posts: 917	What are the nitrites reading? Livestock still in QT? __________________ 33G Long, 4x54 watt T5, Tunze 6025, Tunze Osmolator ATO, Tunze Streamfilter 3163 Posts about moving an oversized fish to a bigger tank. Is like hearing every stripper is just working to pay for colle

07/09/2008, 11:52 AM	#26
aagelly Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 8	Well the ammonia levels were going down slowly last night. This morning we are at about .5-1.0. So the water changes and Prime is definately helping. The rest of our fish are still alive. The spike wiped out our abundant supply of copepods and trigger pods, so if the mandarin lives through this, it might be very hungry for the next couple of days. We lost two corals for sure. The others are still looking bad, but are recoverable. I contacted the apartments and they said the Exterminator definitely did not come any sooner and he will definitely not come tomorrow. So by process of elimination we suspect the roomate. Since we do not have any hard evidence (besides what we have listed before) we are not accusing him. We are simply telling him he has till the end of this week to get out. Thank you for your concerns. I will post more updates as soon as they become available.

07/09/2008, 01:57 PM	#29
vader88 Dolphin Finatic Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Trinity, NC Posts: 844	That's a real bummer, especially if a roommate did it. Your doing very good to control yourself. No one, and I mean no one puts a hand in my tank. Not even my father and he buys livestock for it it. Everyone knows it is my baby and while I'm a nice guy, I would get ugly if someone purposely did something to my tank.

07/10/2008, 07:17 AM	#32
aagelly Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 8	Sadly no improvement since yesterday except another coral died.

07/10/2008, 11:40 AM	#35
aagelly Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 8	The ammonia levels (as of this morning) are still between .5 and 1.0. We are still doing water changes so hopefully it goes down some more overnight. We put a carbon bag in the very first day of things going nuts. Thanks for the well wishes. We will keep you updated.

07/10/2008, 06:29 PM	#37
ahullsb Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: sacramento, ca Posts: 2,729	I hope everything is getting better. You still have no idea what the source was? I might consider finding a temporary home for the mandarin until you get your pod population back up. Unless it eats a lot of frozen, it's health might slowly deteriorate over the next few weeks. __________________ Andy Sacramento, CA Current Tank Info: 55 gallon reef w/20 gallon sump/ER135/ 75 pounds of live rock, 4 in sandbed, 2 b&w ocellaris clowns, yellow watchman/pistol, rosy scaled wrasse, Mystery wrasse, Copperbanded Butterfly, Lighting 48" outer orbit 2 150 mh/ 4 t5 actinics

07/10/2008, 10:18 PM	#38
Percula9 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Orange County CA Posts: 3,819	Sorry this happened, this is obviously sabotage by the roommate. Even if you fix the problem with the tank what's to stop him from doing it again. What is he doing with a bottle of ammonia any way. Smoking gun.

07/10/2008, 10:29 PM	#39
Percula9 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Orange County CA Posts: 3,819	Sorry this happened, this is obviously sabotage by the roommate. Even if you fix the problem with the tank what's to stop him from doing it again. What is he doing with a bottle of ammonia any way. Smoking gun.

07/10/2008, 10:48 PM	#40
Flipper62 Premium Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Naperville, Il. Business Owner, President & CEO Posts: 3,045	Sorry to here about the loss.....But some time this his how it works. Even if you told the landlord...He may of said....spray anyway. I cant take the chance of bugs from your apt getting into the other apts..... Also....alot of times the landlord just give the sprayer the pass key. He may of told the sprayer.....but he just went into every apt & forgot. I am a landlord & I know this can happen. My sugestion to you is....Next time that they are comming to spray. Put a sign on you door that says....PLEASE DO NOT SPRAY THIS UNIT.....ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CALL ME AT ---/---/---- OR CALL THE LANDLORD. __________________ If todays automobile had followed the same development as the computer, A Rolls Royce would cost $100.00. It would get a million miles per gallon, but it would explode once a year killing everyone inside." Current Tanks... 90 gal Reef... My awesome Office BioCube....( 180 was on hold ..no time ) ... The 180 gal has been sold...Yay..yay..yay. Hobby Experience: 19 years Reef...22 years FW

07/10/2008, 10:49 PM	#41
Zestay Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: gainesville, FL Posts: 1,622	ammonia... maybe he pee'd in your tank. that can spike ammonia instantly.

07/10/2008, 10:56 PM	#42
Flipper62 Premium Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Naperville, Il. Business Owner, President & CEO Posts: 3,045	PS to my above post. YA....what is the roomate doing with a jug of ammonia??? This mite sound bad....BUT, if you lick your finger & touch the base boards around the kitchen...Then touch your tongue, You will know if they realy did spray or not. YA..YA... go rince your tongue with water. If you just touch your tongue, it wont hurt you....Just dont drag your tongue around on all the base boards in the entire unit NOW you will know if its the room mate __________________ If todays automobile had followed the same development as the computer, A Rolls Royce would cost $100.00. It would get a million miles per gallon, but it would explode once a year killing everyone inside." Current Tanks... 90 gal Reef... My awesome Office BioCube....( 180 was on hold ..no time ) ... The 180 gal has been sold...Yay..yay..yay. Hobby Experience: 19 years Reef...22 years FW

07/10/2008, 11:19 PM	#43
chatyak Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2,090	Sounds like roomy needs a taste of their own medicine.... __________________ Fishville

07/10/2008, 11:37 PM	#45
Magga Pie Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Miami Fl Posts: 1,490	I would for sure fight if someone did that to my tank!! Sorry to hear about your tank situation hope everything gets back to normal soon

07/10/2008, 11:44 PM	#46
Michael NTTH Rookie Help Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Gloucester, England,UK Posts: 7,808 Blog Entries: 6	well 1 thing is for sure something nasty has got in there during the time you was at work, going to be hard to prove, gotta start again with the basics and keep it on track and just hope whoever was responsible for the demise understands from your sadness at present that it was a foolish thing to do __________________ Don't be afraid to ask questions, we in the new to the hobby are here to help you [For My Tank Spec,Photo Album,Articles and website, click on my name] MY Very Kindest and Warmest Regards , MIKE Current Tank Info: I have a 92 gal Corner Tank, and way too many pieces of equipment to list really, (proud member of the reef central corner club)

07/11/2008, 12:45 AM	#47
chatyak Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2,090	Prove it's the roomy! Put this in your room. (Simple Google search) http://www.spytechs.com/hidden_video/plant_2400.htm haha __________________ Fishville