My tank is on the brink of crashing right now. I adjusted the water level in my skimmer slightly higher last night hoping to improve the skimmate production. Woke up this morning and the skimmer was basically just pumping water into the collection cup and into the bottle outside the sump that I have it plumbed to. Water all over the floor. The auto top off pumped all of its contents (7 gallons) into the sump since the level was dropping as the malfunctioning skimmer was pumping water out of the sump.
Salinity dropped from 1.024 to 1.018. My copperband is all but dead. I've removed him and put him in QT with medications but he's laying on the bottom, still breathing but in real bad shape. I expect him to die by the morning. My emperor angel's color is very washed out, a sign of stress. The yellow tang seems stressed as well and both are hiding in the rocks a lot. The ocellaris, chromis, flame angel, cleaner shrimp and all the corals seem pretty much normal.
I did a 15 gallon water change just for the hell of it but is there anything I can do while I slowly raise the salinity over the next couple days? The water change with straight scripps raised it up a point to 1.019. Should I even try to raise the salinity and put the fish through more adjustment? Or just leave it where it is for a few days and let them get used to it before raising it back up?
I added some of that stress coat stuff hoping it would help the fish a bit. Anything else I can do to help their chances?