FAirly new to saltwater hobby so I make mistakes.
After an inital outbreak of ich which claimed three fish, I removed 2 green chromis to a qt system. Left them there for 6 weeks(used hypo salinity and kick ich)Display tank was empty this whole time(also raised temp on display to 85. All water parameters were goo(amm-0,nitrite-0,nitrate -5,ph-8-3,Sg1.024). Moved chromis back to display tank three weeks ago all is good. A client asked me to remove an older tank as she was old and it was a family members who stopped taking care of it. I went over to remove it and it was so filthy you couldn't see anything. When I drained it down to my suprise a Coral Beauty was stiil alive(looked real bad but still swimming) I didn't really expect it to survive but placed it in a container and finshed the job. Got home 2 hours later and remember the beauty.Just dumped it into qt tank with some food. The next day it was still alive. So I started to rescue this fish. After some good care his color came around was very active. Last week I started bringing water parameters to match display. LAst night I performed my usual care(10 gal water change clean filters and glass) Then proceeded
to transferThe beauty .A short acclimation period(1/2 hour)was all I did because tank parameters were almost identical.(ph was off by .1)
This morning my rescue fish was hermit crab food. Only thing I can think I did wrong was distrubing some of the argonite to vacum up the nasties but I do this every week. Any clues?
This is a FOWLR for know(am waiting on corals until I can get fish to live)
Thanks Mike
PS your site has been a wealth of information.