Gobies and I don't mix

[Wiringwizards]

A few odd things have been happening.
Currently I have
3 green chromis
4 yellow tail blue damsels
1 blue streak wrasse
1 yellow wrasse
1 flame hawkfish
1pipefish
2 clowns
Coral banded shrimp

Fish that went missing
3 firefish
2 manderain gobies
1 yellow watchman goby
And long nose how

The manderains I built the refugium for the copepods and have been dumping a bottle of copepods week for for 2 months and they ate brine shrip and frozen they ate well and we're fat. They turned white and died a day apart. Hawkfish no body
Gobies healthy one day past the next just didn't come out for food and found 2 bodies. I have a tight lid. IDK maybe gobies don't like me there beautiful though.

 

[James M]

Sorry about your loses... how old was the tank? Do you QT your new fish ?

 

[ZachR32]

you might have a latent disease in your DT

 

[Wiringwizards]

Latent I haven't heard of it. No currently I don't quarintine. My girlfriend only will let me have it tank right now. And it's very odd tank is 6 months old with a 20gal refugium and 10gal wedry.

 

[Wiringwizards]

Idk if this helps but the firefish was the first in the tank and we're with me over 90% of current tank life(5-6months) and the Mandy's lastest with me for over 2 months eating etc.. all deaths were quick alive one day dead the next.

 

[Jesterrace]

The Mandarins don't surprise me since they are very difficult to keep alive if you don't have a healthy breeding copepod population. They need to feed almost constantly during the waking hours. A single Mandarin can go through thousands of them in a week.

 

[Wiringwizards]

Yep before I bought the paired Mandy's I built a 20 gallon refugium with chaeto and made sure they ate brine and frozen I dumped a bottle in the Dt and refugium. Have you heard of them losing color and dieing. I know they lose color at night when they sleep