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I'm done with fish.
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I'm no expert, but could you have some disease hanging out in your tank that is doing in these fish. Did you carefully examine these fish to check for disease?
The other thought is stray voltage. You're young and healthy.....stand barefoot and put your hand in the tank. Do you feel a tingle? You could do this more precisely using a VOM or multimeter. With it set on volts AC, put one probe end in your tank and the other to a good ground. I always use the screw on the front of a wall plug cover....that's a good ground.
The other thought is stray voltage. You're young and healthy.....stand barefoot and put your hand in the tank. Do you feel a tingle? You could do this more precisely using a VOM or multimeter. With it set on volts AC, put one probe end in your tank and the other to a good ground. I always use the screw on the front of a wall plug cover....that's a good ground.
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+1 checking for stray voltage. Also were all the fish from the same store or source?
bristletooth and mandarin were from the same store, leopard clown pair and tribal blenny from the same source, and Atlantic blue tang was from a different store. no disease, no stray voltage. i've had 2 clowns for almost 2 years now both of which are just fine, in fact they eat from my hand. they finally decided to host my orange wall hammer. i think they are just too territorial. luckily the fish that didn't make it weren't expensive.
Ill scratch that idea then. They are cool looking ,for the longest time I thought they were marine betas they look alike. I can't complain to much with fish loss we all have it but I don't buy they high end stuff. Priciest fish in the tank right now is my blue spot jawfish, then the four dusky jawfish that get along just fine and eat like crazy. Love the idea of having corals more than the fish as I can't frag the head off my fish to grow another hah
You've had the tank since November? Sometimes with new tanks, for some reason the equilibrium is off and fish die off. Had the same issue when I first set up my tank. Now it's been a year and things seemed to have stabilized. Lost yellow tang, kole tang, coral beauty, plus a few others. Good luck.
I would not give up on fish too soon, especially if you intend to keep corals.
Active fish are actually helpful for coral survival as they help feed corals and also help keep the cycle going by feeding the beneficial bacteria (ammonia). They may also help out in other ways too, for instance, tangs feeding on algae... or a melanarus wrasse will eat things like flat worms, etc.
The point is, without a good variety of fish your ecosystem is not as strong as it could be.
I know it can be frustrating when you lose a fish. The important thing is to try to determine why it died and try to correct that so that you can add fish again at some point. If you just keep adding fish and don't find out what the problem is... well, that's pretty much the definition of insanity: "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Active fish are actually helpful for coral survival as they help feed corals and also help keep the cycle going by feeding the beneficial bacteria (ammonia). They may also help out in other ways too, for instance, tangs feeding on algae... or a melanarus wrasse will eat things like flat worms, etc.
The point is, without a good variety of fish your ecosystem is not as strong as it could be.
I know it can be frustrating when you lose a fish. The important thing is to try to determine why it died and try to correct that so that you can add fish again at some point. If you just keep adding fish and don't find out what the problem is... well, that's pretty much the definition of insanity: "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
