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I have a fairly new reef aquarium. (About 3 months) I adopted the tank that was established for 6 years. There was no live stock when I got it so even though it was already established I cycled it when I moved it just to be safe and introduced fish and coral slowly afterwards.
As of yesterday, I had two clowns, a lawnmower blenny, and a coral beauty. All were great. No signs of anything. Swimming, eating, everything. All was normal.
Even this morning, everyone was accounted for. But when I got home, I had lost a clown and the coral beauty. I just watched the second clown die an hour ago. Before it died I definitely noticed some distress. It was hiding under a rock the entire time. My wife said it had been there all day. Looked like it was breathing heavily. But no physical signs on its body. Eventually it started swimming around and looked as if it were getting better, but that quickly declined until it had its final breath moments later.
As of now the lawnmower blenny is alive. However he is acting very strange. It actually seems much more active and even much less skittish when I get near the tank. It's even hanging out along the glass, towards the surface, and near the powerhead. Very unlike him, which he's usually hiding in the rocks.
Although this is a new tank, I do have knowledge from a fowlr tank I ran for a couple years when I was younger. I have never heard of anything like this happening out of nowhere so quickly.
My water parameters are perfect. PH 8.3-8.4, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate 0. Phosphate 0. Calcium and carbonate hardness all good too.
I am baffled. I know it has to be some sort of infection or disease, but there were absolutely no signs. The only other thing is when the second clown died, it shredded some skin. Or atleast what looked like skin. But that only happened immediately after it's death.
I know I babbled so if you finished reading thank you and please help with any insight you might have!
As of yesterday, I had two clowns, a lawnmower blenny, and a coral beauty. All were great. No signs of anything. Swimming, eating, everything. All was normal.
Even this morning, everyone was accounted for. But when I got home, I had lost a clown and the coral beauty. I just watched the second clown die an hour ago. Before it died I definitely noticed some distress. It was hiding under a rock the entire time. My wife said it had been there all day. Looked like it was breathing heavily. But no physical signs on its body. Eventually it started swimming around and looked as if it were getting better, but that quickly declined until it had its final breath moments later.
As of now the lawnmower blenny is alive. However he is acting very strange. It actually seems much more active and even much less skittish when I get near the tank. It's even hanging out along the glass, towards the surface, and near the powerhead. Very unlike him, which he's usually hiding in the rocks.
Although this is a new tank, I do have knowledge from a fowlr tank I ran for a couple years when I was younger. I have never heard of anything like this happening out of nowhere so quickly.
My water parameters are perfect. PH 8.3-8.4, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate 0. Phosphate 0. Calcium and carbonate hardness all good too.
I am baffled. I know it has to be some sort of infection or disease, but there were absolutely no signs. The only other thing is when the second clown died, it shredded some skin. Or atleast what looked like skin. But that only happened immediately after it's death.
I know I babbled so if you finished reading thank you and please help with any insight you might have!