death

so as some of you know there have been some unsetteling reports of this carbon from petco. we are investigating this and would like some help. we are fresh water guys and this seems to be more of an issues for you all. the reports of this from fresh water had been blown off as bad stock or...

Have been trying to introduce black bar reef chromis into my 125 gallon reef tank but having high mortality. I ordered 7 from live Aquaria and only Some of these didn’t look great. Missing tails and a big red spot on one of them. Treated them with paracleanse and maracyn but I only one of them...

Our lemon tang took a bad turn today out of nowhere. I don’t know if she was getting bullied or if she’s sick. I noticed she wasn’t really moving and was breathing hard - I grabbed her up to get a closer look and there’s some damage to her dorsal fin? Is there anything I can do, or is she on...

Well, tomorrow is the big day. (Stress venting) Long story short I bought a new house about 15 mins up the road. Set up a brand new squeaky clean waterbox infinia frag 125. That tank is cycled and now holds all of my lps and zoas. Now I have the daunting task of bagging up a few hundred acro...

Help please! I just can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. Tank is 3 months old. Fish are perfectly fine. But I can not keep corals happy in the slightest and all herbivorous cuc dies within a few days of being added to the tank. Worried that the bright green on the rock is some form of cyano...

I've been frantically going through this forum to try and save my moribund clownfish but had no luck unfortunately. My clownfish has died and I have no clue why after extensive testing. Tank is about 2 and a half months old or so. I've had my clowns for a little over a month. Currently...

Hi everyone, 4 days ago, I bought six fish from my local fish store: a foxface, Midas blenny, longnose hawk, yellow tang, orchid dottyback, and bangaii cardinal. All of them were eating well at the store. When I got home, I added them to my two quarantine tanks, and they all ate on the first...

So I've been feeling quite frustrated with reefing lately because I feel like I've been doing everything right, I did loads of research and every decision I make with my reef tank is for a specific purpose. Despite this I have just about every issue you can think of in my tank, and no end in...

My clown just died. I have a clownfish and a tailspot blenny, what fish should I get? I have a 15 gallon fluval flex AIO. I'm not getting another clownfish.

So I changed the cool white setting on my lighting schedule last night on my radion g6 blues. I suppose when I made the change I hit save then hit back I assume I did something wrong while saving the setting because it activated at 100% intensity I did not realize it would change from my...

I originally got into this hobby about 20 years ago, and it was very different then. Fish sometimes collected with dynamite or cyanide. Nobody quarantined anything. And reckless animal options like sharks, octopus, or large morays were not uncommon. Got back into it 2 years ago, and I've been...

Hi everyone. I’m a 7 mth new hobbiest and overnight my healthy blue regal tang has died. Only one new recent addition of a big blue starfish has been added to the display tank a few days ago. He has what appears to be white blotches on his body otherwise is untouched. Any thoughts on his death...

I bought this little guy Friday at 3pm. He looked normale and the guy at the LFS feed him some shrimp and he ate well, he even took his piece and went in his corner to eat. 30 min drive. 30 min temp acclimation. 30 min Drip Acclimation. Has soon has I added him to the tank he was relatively...

Hey everyone, I set up my tank (cycled) in May of 23, and since then I've had a bunch of deaths. First, I got a clean up crew, a blue legged hermit crab, a red hermit crab and 2 nasarius snails. July, I got 2 clownfish. By the end of July one clownfish had died (breathing really hard) and my...

So I bought a leopard wrasse from another local reefer who had him for quite a while along with a couple other fish such as yellow tile and more. The first 2 days the leopard was the only of the ones I bought that was up and about, je was swimming around perfectly, eating, and was overall the...

Parm: nitrate 20 Phosphate 0,1 Kh 12,5 Ph 8,09 Temp 25,2 Celsius 1025 / 35 sg Mg 1400 So last June I lost over 15 Euphyllia colonies because of vacation and since then I al struggling to make my tank stable again to buy new corals special I want to start in sps but no stable tank no sps ...

Hello, I’ve been losing fish consistently for the past nine months. It’s been a constant struggle to get fish to live past 6 months after acclimating. My fish have died with what seems like swim bladder disease, or being above or below the tank gasping for air and heavy gill movement. I...

I came home for work today and I found my largest hermit crab presumably dead next to my pulsing Xenia. I have 5 total and that was the biggest with bigger shells for him to inhabit. The fish are happy, pulsing Xenia and GSP are happy looking. Multiple zoa frags are open. Other hermit crab seem...

My brother bought 2 red knobby sea stars a few weeks ago, and he’s convinced that one is dying. I know nothing about red knobbies, but I’m sure they aren’t supposed to grow orange spots on the underside of them?? We’ve tested the water, everything seems fine except the “hardness”. We’re going...

My lavender tang was doing fine, then all of the sudden I found it swimming strangely and was very lethargic. He didn't eat, was upside down and hyperventilating. He was then placed in an isolation container in the same system for observation and feeding. He didn't respond to any type of food...

I woke up today and I saw my Royal Gramma dead and my clownfish looking like the Gramma did the night before. Please I need some help because I’m so confused, all my parameters are good and I make sure to test that every couple days. Any advise would be appreciated

Hello. I have a newly set up tank and started with a filefish. He was doing well for about a month and then we added two clownfish. The tank is 26 gallons. The filefish mysteriously disappeared. Mind you the ammonia and nitrite had been zero before we put the fish in. Two days later one of the...

Hi all, Unfortunately my 4 day old Blue star was found dead stuck head first in some rocks this morning. I had to use some long tweezers and some force to get it out. Wanted to get some opinions on what could have happened. All other fish in the tank are healthy and eating voraciously. The...

Ive had a 10 gallon frag tank set up for a little over 2 months now. I've been obsessed with it and have kept up on water changes and tests. They're API tests which I know aren't the best. I have a few corals which are doing great, a turbo snail, and some hermit crabs. My tests were consistent...

Hi all, Currently dealing with such a frustrating phenomenon. Two months ago one of my trochus snails started flipping itself on purpose. Even if I put it right again, after 5 minutes it flipped itself upside down again. Apparently this has been reported but no real explanation/cause has been...