Terrible Advice Tuesdays (T.A.Tues.): Probable Cause For Fish Death (Yeah Right)
Terrible Advice Tuesdays (T.A.Tues.): Your fish is sick and/or dying because your calcium levels are low.
The rest of the story: I’ll make it really easy for you: Fish don’t care about what your tank’s calcium levels are. No where on my dying fish flow chart does it say “check calcium levels” because the calcium levels don’t matter for fish! I’ll even expand on this statement to say that fish don’t care what your calcium, magnesium, strontium, iron, etc. levels are.
Don’t waste your time worrying about calcium levels if your fish are sick or dying as it is a complete waste of time.
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Shoot!!! I’d have swore that was a calcium meter my Tang was pulling out of his pocket and checking every half hour or so..
Yeah, me too. Maybe he was checking his phone for texts. 🙂
Is that a calcium test kit or are you just happy to see me?
Dang, un hear eye thawt thay need dat cowseeum fer good bone growins
Now I cn save dat milk n give it two awl duh cats
Great news!! I can finally stop Calc dosing in my 100 Gallon bowfront 😀
I understand the fish do not care about mineral levels, but is the PH affecting the fish health?
The mineral levels are determining the PH? Just curious.
One less thing to worry about, thank you for the advice!
Seriously Mark, Where you get this stuff. That is some newbie reefer. 🙂
Never heard of even testing for that! Someone just likes Testing they’re sh&t!
Erasmo…super low pH could theoretically affect fish health. If you put a saltwater fish in a pH 6.0 solution, it will likely die. That being said, the normal range of saltwater tanks (7.5-8.8 give or take) is fine for fish.
The link doesn’t seem To take you to the chart
Low Calcium levels are notting to worry about, but to high levels are not healthy for ether fish or evertebrae.
Calcium do affect PH/Kh, as a bufer, To high PH or to low are eaqually stressfull and really dangerous to livestock especially if it swings fast up or down.In some cases very Low/high PH kills in a few minuttes to hours.It depends on what kind of fish and what water chemistry they live and thrive at. Some Freshwater fish fex wil thrive from PH 4-7, and some will love PH 7-9. But sensitive species can take a hike to the other side if keept in such water perimeters.there for never change your water perimeters to fast uo or down and take your time doing so. climate your fish, corals and shrimps
The real killers are high levels of Ammonia ,Nitritte and sometimes high Nitrates*(for shelfish and evertebrae: especially shrimps)(been there done that).
But Low calcium levels, wont harm your fish, but might do some dammage to your corals over time.
As long as your fish get Ca, and trace elements trough theyr food source, and good water parameters they will be more than happy and content. There is also a killer that many dont think about, especially for newbies and that is to fast, with to cold water, when they do theyr waterchanges.And I have been asked about why theyr fish or shrimps died after the waterchange, in most cases it was the water temp was to cold. never use icecold water directly from the water hose during a full waterchange.temperate your water.and please use RO /DI, just as a precaution 🙂
I do not fully agree. Where low calcium levels in a fish only tank are nothing to worry about. When your fish die in a reef tank and your Ca levels are low. Something went wrong. The fish will not die from the low Ca levels but it could very well be an indicator of sudden change. Depending on the fish that change could have affected the fish’ health.