5 dead fish within 24 hours. WHAT IS HAPPENING????

[secretreefer]

Iʻve lost these fish since yesterday. golden male rhomboid, blue reef chromis, male bartlett anthias, super male flame wrasse, banngai cardinal, are among the casualties since yesterday. no new additions (coral/fish) only a ball of chaeto that I added. salinity-1.027, temp 78F, PH-8.2. phosphate .01ppm, nitrate .1ppm.

 

[PR_Reefers]

how old is your tank?? Mantis!!!??? Do you have any other fish that have been able to succesfully keep? did you cure your rock? what water do you use?? give some description as to your filtration or setup? seems to me a lot is going wrong if even a reef chromis died or you have a killer in the tank!!!!!

 

[Renegade Reefer]

Yeah I thought Chromis will nearly survive a nuke. Something don't sound right. I'm assuming this is a reef tank with the salinity being that high?

 

[secretreefer]

yeah, weird though that i didnʻt add anything. I did notice that the fish were breathing hard......the blue reef chromis did have like a bite mark on its gills... maybe my golden dwarf morays are turning evil?

 

[mersam74]

Its your nitrate should be .0ppm.
Overstocking or overfeeding?

 

[PR_Reefers]

Its your nitrate should be .0ppm.
Overstocking or overfeeding?

Nitrate of even 40ppm won't likely kill your fish in 24hrs though...

 

[drainbamage]

have the fish simply disappeared or have you found any corpses? If you've found any corpses could you describe their appearance?

also how long have each of the fish been in the tank?

 

[VIPReef]

Ammonia. Whatever you introduced to the tank was dying or already dead or possibly some filter malfunctioning. It is possible that by the time you check the ammonia in your tank today traces of ammonia have already dissappeared. Sorry about the losses.

HTH,
djfrankie

 

[secretreefer]

have the fish simply disappeared or have you found any corpses? If you've found any corpses could you describe their appearance?

also how long have each of the fish been in the tank?

i haven't found the banngai yet. i saw the blue reef when it was swimming weird and looked like it had a bite mark on it's gill plate then i haven't found it since. i did find the flame,rhomboid,bartletts. they seemed "shocked" like stiff bent.

 

[Captain Nemo]

Did anyone spray air freshness in the room the tank is In? I had this happen and that was the cause. Sorry bro.

 

[secretreefer]

Did anyone spray air freshness in the room the tank is In? I had this happen and that was the cause. Sorry bro.

now you mention it.... i did change our sheets recently and sprayed lysol in 2 rooms but they're upstairs. the tank is downstairs.
Anyone had their golden dwarf morays turn evil and eat your fish?

 

[Captain Nemo]

That is why I don't have morays, nasty little things. Just my thoughts. , lol

 

[drainbamage]

if you found the bodies- it wasn't the morays. They don't nip, they eat things whole. So yea, if you found even one or two corpses, for good or bad it's not the morays I'd be blaming, instead look towards chemical contaminants (doubt the lysol made it down from upstairs) or something that caused a waste spike.

 

[firsttime]

Sorry to hear about your loss. Looks like you have already gone through the list of the usual suspects. Is there a possibility of shock? Any electrical leak of any kind? Any malfunctioning probe?

 

[Captain Nemo]

+1 to the possible electrical, have you tested for a current in the tank?? If not you may want to....

 

[Stray32]

My first thought was stray current...

 

[Troylee]

i wander if your name has anything to do with it????? ahahahahahahahahahahahahah lol....

My first thought was stray current...

 

[zoous]

Ball of chaeto just added? How big?

 

[clarky2120]

Ball of chaeto just added? How big?

and where or who did you get it from?

 

[Captain Nemo]

Did you rinse the cheato prior to adding it to the system? I totally missed this when I read the first post appearantly.....ahhh nothing like waking up to start posting on here....:wink: