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So I started my tank in June, cycled and added fish by late June. (Used bacteria in a bottle from a friend who has been in the hobby for a long time) about a 2 weeks after adding my clowns one died sadly. No sign of death just found him on the powerheas in the morning and feared he may had gotten stuck or something. Ordered another clown. 2 weeks went by and all was good. Then added a Bella goby. 2 weeks later boom. Clown gets white dots all over him. By the time I can ask my friend what to do and setup a qt tank everything else dies within 6 hours. So he and I both came to the conclusion marine velvet is the culprit. With how busy my work schedule is I decided it would be best to just let the velvet starve so I left the tank untouched and just did water changes for 60 days. Reading that velvet us 30 days. And wanted to be triple safe before going through that horrific sight of all my pets die. Well here I am 2.5 weeks into my new stock and overnight I lost my mandarin goby. I didn't see any dots on him but he had a very slimy coat when I pulled him out and now my firefish has 4 dots on 1 side and 1 dot on the other. And for those who think my mandarin starved I had him on frozen and he was eating as well as I added pods about a 3 days ago. Im so upset about all my fish dying the first time and if this happens again im probably going to give up on the hobby and cut my losses and sell everything. I dont know what I'm doing I kept freshwater fish for YEARS and never had this issue. And to see my beautiful snowflake clowns die it makes me feel as if I should step away from this and let someone else not f it up because I would assume im doing something wrong.. ..
So I started my tank in June, cycled and added fish by late June. (Used bacteria in a bottle from a friend who has been in the hobby for a long time) about a 2 weeks after adding my clowns one died sadly. No sign of death just found him on the powerheas in the morning and feared he may had gotten stuck or something. Ordered another clown. 2 weeks went by and all was good. Then added a Bella goby. 2 weeks later boom. Clown gets white dots all over him. By the time I can ask my friend what to do and setup a qt tank everything else dies within 6 hours. So he and I both came to the conclusion marine velvet is the culprit. With how busy my work schedule is I decided it would be best to just let the velvet starve so I left the tank untouched and just did water changes for 60 days. Reading that velvet us 30 days. And wanted to be triple safe before going through that horrific sight of all my pets die. Well here I am 2.5 weeks into my new stock and overnight I lost my mandarin goby. I didn't see any dots on him but he had a very slimy coat when I pulled him out and now my firefish has 4 dots on 1 side and 1 dot on the other. And for those who think my mandarin starved I had him on frozen and he was eating as well as I added pods about a 3 days ago. Im so upset about all my fish dying the first time and if this happens again im probably going to give up on the hobby and cut my losses and sell everything. I dont know what I'm doing I kept freshwater fish for YEARS and never had this issue. And to see my beautiful snowflake clowns die it makes me feel as if I should step away from this and let someone else not f it up because I would assume im doing something wrong.. ..