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I think you're receiving a lot of conflicting advice here. Some of it is sending you off in the wrong directions. I'm certainly not an expert and have definitely had my share of fish losses over the years. But Jay Hemdal is an expert and I would be following his advice rather than chasing other leads.
This is definitely not HLLE both because it doesn't look like it and the pattern of losses is not consistent with HLLE. It also isn't likely to be stray voltage. Again, the pattern of how you lost your fish and the way the fish looked isn't consistent with that.
The fish being half-eaten may have occurred AFTER it died. Probably some inverts or clean up crew eating it. Also, that "goby" you had doesn't look like a goby. It looked more like an eel of some sort.
If this is velvet, you need to make sure every single fish is out. Same thing if this were ich. Corals, inverts, and live rock can stay in the main tank. That's what people mean by keeping the tank fallow. If you do this for long enough, the parasites will die out on their own as they can only continue living if there's a fish in the tank. Meanwhile, you place the removed fish in a QT/hospital tank and treat with copper or chloroquine phosphate. Copper obviously is much easier to come by these days.
If it's bacterial or fungal, you may need to treat. That's easy enough to do in the QT, but I'm not sure about the main tank. I'll defer to the experts on that, but I think you'll probably have to do some water changes as well to improve water quality.
Again, I'm not going to try to diagnose this since you've already gotten so many answers and have an expert involved. But this is not HLLE or stray voltage.
This is definitely not HLLE both because it doesn't look like it and the pattern of losses is not consistent with HLLE. It also isn't likely to be stray voltage. Again, the pattern of how you lost your fish and the way the fish looked isn't consistent with that.
The fish being half-eaten may have occurred AFTER it died. Probably some inverts or clean up crew eating it. Also, that "goby" you had doesn't look like a goby. It looked more like an eel of some sort.
If this is velvet, you need to make sure every single fish is out. Same thing if this were ich. Corals, inverts, and live rock can stay in the main tank. That's what people mean by keeping the tank fallow. If you do this for long enough, the parasites will die out on their own as they can only continue living if there's a fish in the tank. Meanwhile, you place the removed fish in a QT/hospital tank and treat with copper or chloroquine phosphate. Copper obviously is much easier to come by these days.
If it's bacterial or fungal, you may need to treat. That's easy enough to do in the QT, but I'm not sure about the main tank. I'll defer to the experts on that, but I think you'll probably have to do some water changes as well to improve water quality.
Again, I'm not going to try to diagnose this since you've already gotten so many answers and have an expert involved. But this is not HLLE or stray voltage.