Disaster struck this weekend while I was away with a friend. I left friday afternoon and arrived home sunday night.
friday night before my BF was home, the return hose for my filter fell off the back of my tank (I assume it was entirely the cat's fault as I had it clamped to the backside of the tank) thus causing my tank to lose about 10 gallons of water before the siphon was broken.
When he got home he decided to take it upon his self to re-fill the tank (which I don't mind)
Unfortunately he messed up quite a few things while he did this. He did not add hardly ANY salt to the water, he used very cold water straight from the tap, and he did not put any dechlorinator or marine buffer in the tank to keep the PH correct. As a result there was a PH spike and three of my fish went belly up. I lost my clownfish, my algae blenny, and my green mandarin dragonet. Currently my tank is stressed beyond all belief, and my two neon gobies refuse to come out from under thier rock. (I know they are alive because I can take a flashlight to the underside of the tank and see them in thier little cave) Still seem to have all my crabs and feather dusters, and I am trying to get the PH and everything else stabalized. (I also seem to have an exsessive amount of 'pods on the back of my glass all of a sudden.
Is there anything I can do to try to keep my tang from over-stressing? I did put some dechlorinator/stress coat in the tank, and am watching for any other sighns of diseases/ick/etc.
friday night before my BF was home, the return hose for my filter fell off the back of my tank (I assume it was entirely the cat's fault as I had it clamped to the backside of the tank) thus causing my tank to lose about 10 gallons of water before the siphon was broken.
When he got home he decided to take it upon his self to re-fill the tank (which I don't mind)
Unfortunately he messed up quite a few things while he did this. He did not add hardly ANY salt to the water, he used very cold water straight from the tap, and he did not put any dechlorinator or marine buffer in the tank to keep the PH correct. As a result there was a PH spike and three of my fish went belly up. I lost my clownfish, my algae blenny, and my green mandarin dragonet. Currently my tank is stressed beyond all belief, and my two neon gobies refuse to come out from under thier rock. (I know they are alive because I can take a flashlight to the underside of the tank and see them in thier little cave) Still seem to have all my crabs and feather dusters, and I am trying to get the PH and everything else stabalized. (I also seem to have an exsessive amount of 'pods on the back of my glass all of a sudden.
Is there anything I can do to try to keep my tang from over-stressing? I did put some dechlorinator/stress coat in the tank, and am watching for any other sighns of diseases/ick/etc.
