Ok so I set up a new nano tank about 2 months ago. I used dr Tim’s and the dr Tim’s ammonia as well. Took about 10 days to cycle. Oh then added two snowflake clownfish and added some bio spira just to be safe and add some more bacteria.
The clownfish lived happily for over 35 days. Looked awesome. Ate whatever I put in the tank. No flashing, no white spots, no excess mucus cost production. Nice bright colors and a good appetite. Then one day the smaller one didn’t want to eat breakfast and just sat on the bottom on the tank in the corner rapidly breathing. He still looked great though. I noticed no tell take signs of disease. He died 12 hours later and then the bigger female did the exact same thing the next day.
I added nothing recently. The livestock consists of a cleaner shrimp, brittle starfish, bubble tip anemone, two hermit crabs, toadstool leather and weeping willow leather. Everything else looks fine.
ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrates 0-10 and ph8.2. SG 1.026 and temp 78.
The only thing I did the day before was lightly stir the sand bed to mixing up the dying diatoms. But the sand bed is only 1” deep and not that old so I’m highly doubting I released any hydrogen sulphide. But I’m not sure. Because I got another pair of clowns a few days later and they died within 2 hours of putting in the tank. I floated them for 30 mins to temp acclimate and then put them in. The store I bought them from salinity was 1.025 so I figured no need to drip any.
The new fish swam around great for a few mins then started to breathe rapidly as well. Sticking to the surface and and swimming all stupid very shortly after that. They then just went to the bottom where they stopped swimming and both eventually fell to their sides and died. This was all in the span of about 2 hours max.
I’m lost on what could be the problem. Both sets of clowns looked great even when dead. No signs of anything. I feel like something is poisoning them but everything else in the tank seems just fine.
Anyone got any ideas? I’ve got poly filter and carbon on the way but I’m lost.
The clownfish lived happily for over 35 days. Looked awesome. Ate whatever I put in the tank. No flashing, no white spots, no excess mucus cost production. Nice bright colors and a good appetite. Then one day the smaller one didn’t want to eat breakfast and just sat on the bottom on the tank in the corner rapidly breathing. He still looked great though. I noticed no tell take signs of disease. He died 12 hours later and then the bigger female did the exact same thing the next day.
I added nothing recently. The livestock consists of a cleaner shrimp, brittle starfish, bubble tip anemone, two hermit crabs, toadstool leather and weeping willow leather. Everything else looks fine.
ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrates 0-10 and ph8.2. SG 1.026 and temp 78.
The only thing I did the day before was lightly stir the sand bed to mixing up the dying diatoms. But the sand bed is only 1” deep and not that old so I’m highly doubting I released any hydrogen sulphide. But I’m not sure. Because I got another pair of clowns a few days later and they died within 2 hours of putting in the tank. I floated them for 30 mins to temp acclimate and then put them in. The store I bought them from salinity was 1.025 so I figured no need to drip any.
The new fish swam around great for a few mins then started to breathe rapidly as well. Sticking to the surface and and swimming all stupid very shortly after that. They then just went to the bottom where they stopped swimming and both eventually fell to their sides and died. This was all in the span of about 2 hours max.
I’m lost on what could be the problem. Both sets of clowns looked great even when dead. No signs of anything. I feel like something is poisoning them but everything else in the tank seems just fine.
Anyone got any ideas? I’ve got poly filter and carbon on the way but I’m lost.