Help with tank

[thecommentr86]

Hello I have a 55 gallon cube and I was away on the weekend for my sisters wedding. I come back today and my tank is a mess. Would an anemone dying cause a crash I have a lot of livestock and filter and skimmer. My flame angel I can’t find (super torn about this) watched my clownfish die, dead Melanrius and dead anemone. The shrimp were fine, suprisngly my leopard wrasse was fine (male), carpenter wrasse was fine and Springer dotty back was fine. They seemed stressed but I did a water change and immediately calmed down. Can an anemone the white ones with the purple tips really release that much ammonia I don’t even know why it died . I was then gonna give it back to the LFS since my clownfish weren’t hosting it and it almost killed my blood shrimp but I saw it happen and isolated it in a mesh breeder box hit spot fed it and it had light access.

 

[thecommentr86]

Hello I have a 55 gallon cube and I was away on the weekend for my sisters wedding. I come back today and my tank is a mess. Would an anemone dying cause a crash I have a lot of livestock and filter and skimmer. My flame angel I can’t find (super torn about this) watched my clownfish die, dead Melanrius and dead anemone. The shrimp were fine, suprisngly my leopard wrasse was fine (male), carpenter wrasse was fine and Springer dotty back was fine. They seemed stressed but I did a water change and immediately calmed down. Can an anemone the white ones with the purple tips really release that much ammonia I don’t even know why it died . I was then gonna give it back to the LFS since my clownfish weren’t hosting it and it almost killed my blood shrimp but I saw it happen and isolated it in a mesh breeder box hit spot fed it and it had light access.

I should add my livestock was 3 wrasse, 2 clownfish, 1 watchman, the dottyback and the flame angel. Also tank had 0 aggression

 

[Zach136378]

Yes that can cause a wipe out how quick did you act from the sounds of it you were far too late

 

[thecommentr86]

Yes that can cause a wipe out how quick did you act from the sounds of it you were far too late

Idk when it died but my brother checked the Friday and all the fish were alive I just got back home today and that’s when I saw the damage and he didn’t do anything other than FaceTime me and add some flakes which I watched him do

 

[Zach136378]

What about the Saturday

 

[thecommentr86]

What about the Saturday

Nobody was home was the day of my sisters wedding and I drove 4 hours in and slept at a hotel same with Sunday

 

[Zach136378]

So that’s 100% when it happened anenomies are such a pain I never get them just get a Duncan coral and get the clowns to
Host that I have had captive bred clowns
Host one the Duncan didn’t seem too bothered try not to get them to host a torch or a euphillia

 

[thecommentr86]

What about the Saturday

To add everything was fine before and they seem fine now but I’m like god dangit what awful luck the anemone smelled pretty bad and had bubbles around / on its body. Flame angel body couldn’t find but it’s a skinny fish and I have a string clean up crew

 

[thecommentr86]

So that’s 100% when it happened anenomies are such a pain I never get them just get a Duncan coral and get the clowns to
Host that I have had captive bred clowns
Host one the Duncan didn’t seem too bothered try not to get them to host a torch or a euphillia

I’ll try this yea im never getting one again cause my tank was well established had the flame for 1.5 years . Im getting a new one any tips ive tried flame angels before didnt have luck but this one did well and did well for awhile until this

 

[Zach136378]

I have had anenomies before I only had success with one which was a bubble tip which I had ages ago with a maroon clown who loved it I had that one for quite awhile. The rest that I had were bad I got a huge one and it was only like doing well for 3 days untill it went downhill and its stingers deflated and slowly died. I took no risks as it started to throw up its insides so I chucked it away also do not get one with other corals they will just walk over them and sting the corals