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30gal moved to 55 gallon.
What did you do for moving process?[/FONT]
[FONT="]There are many things that come to mind on what happened but till I know exactly what you did on the move I can’t help you troubleshoot.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Several things could have happened. And its very important to know how you set up your new tank.[/FONT]
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Here is a list of steps on a move to a bigger tank. With everything ready to move. That means. New tank has Live sand and equipment up on it. New Salt water on hand and heated to appropriate temp.[/FONT]
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1. Place fish in bucket of old tanks water with heater.[/FONT]
[FONT="]2. Remove more water into another bucket to put live rock in to rinse and set in.[/FONT]
[FONT="]3. Place live rock in new tank after rinsing in old water in bucket.[/FONT]
[FONT="]4. Take most of remaining water from prior tank and salvage that into the new tank.[/FONT]
[FONT="]5. Fill remaining water with new water.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Final step:
Acclimate fish to new tank after liquid testing: PH, Alk, Calk, Nitrates,Nitrites,Phosphates, etc etc etc…making sure all is good… Salinity etc etc.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Using zip lock bags I acclimated my fish like they were coming from the store…[/FONT]
[FONT="]15 min float then adding a shot glass of the new water every 15 min up to 4 times before letting them loose…(that’s 15min intervals between shots.)[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is very possible you may not be acclimating fish properly…it is also possible you may not have enough live rock to support the new water volumes bio loads and could get a mini cycle…[/FONT]
[FONT="]Who knows at this point.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Fill me in on how you set up the new tank. Details…
What kind of sand? How much LR…. Did you salvage all the old water you could? Did you test Salinity, Nitrates,nitrites,ammonia, PH(at end of photoperiod), Temp?[/FONT]
[FONT="]How did you acclimate your fish into the new tank?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Details sir/mam …more info
PS: to others helping....
Wouldn't low oxygen mean there is going to be more co2 = PH problems would indicate this anyway? How can any store claim Oxygen problem without knowing this?
From what i understand... PH will dive bomb if you have too much co2...from lack of good air exchange and flow...or both....if PH was fine...then I am stumped on the LFS saying that.
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