[Jay03GT]

Had the family at my place for christmas, they loved the tank. My 3 year old niece wanted to see the fish eat, so I fed some spectrum pellets in my 120, she got a kick out of it. Didn't think too much of it, until I noticed after eferyone had left she decided my devil damsel that was in my QT looked hungry and dropped a piece of christmas ham in. Pulled it out and didn't think much of it. Got home tonight from work and major cloudy water, dead damsel. Did a 50% water change, not knowing what else to do.

Here is the question. I have a nice size piece of liverock in there for some bio-filtration. Should I just drain all the water and toss the rock and start over? Or just keep doing some WC over the next few days?

[thelastmucci]

Well to be honest I can't answer your question...I'm not qualified enoguh...however I do have one of my own. Why do you have LR in a QT tank. All you need in there is a sponge filter or a HOB filter and some pvc for the fish to hide in. LR will soak up any addivites or supplemnts you put in there for your sick fishy.

[glampka]

No need to toss the rock. Just do water changes over the next few days.

[Jay03GT]

I don't want to run any kind of filter, and plan on pulling the rock out if I need to medicate the tank any. I don't believe in just adding a bunch of stuff to the water, rather wait and see if there is something wrong first.

Thanks Glampka, that is what I was thinking. Nice to hear it from another source.