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I’ve seen threads on this before but sad to say that I have now joined the ranks. This is now the second time I’ve gone through a mass death of my corals and now fish. The first time around was my fault for the loss of my Euphyllia’s in my old tank. Very busy with work letting alkalinity swings take them out. Now, new bigger tank and try to do everything right. Running a trident, keeping NO3 and PO4 low. See very favorable growth with splits and everything. Just had an issue keeping chaeto. Then, won a HG torch in a raffle and my tank has been spiraling down ever since.
After a week, the HG did polyp bailout. Not a clue why as parameters were fine and I dipped the coral. Next, one head at a time each torch coral would go from very healthy and lots of flesh on the skeleton to being deflated with lots of flesh still and then it all melting off within a day. Went from 15+ heads of high end torches to two. No clue why just presumably bacterial related. While that sucks, we can rebound.
Now, though, my fish are going down.... I was very diligent this time about doing a 6-8 week Qat treating with copper power at 2.5, deworming, and treating with metro and GC both internally and externally. Then, to my surprise, I see my tang with ick and an impossible task of trying to catch it and all my fish to treat. Ultimately, couldn’t trap them. I go to the next best thing of feeding heavy and soaking food in selcon. Seems to help the blue tang but then spreads to my potter angel which I see today has died. It’s so frustrating to go through such a stringent and time consuming QT and have it fail. I only assume it came in through inverts or corals as I do not have the space capacity to quarantine all these for 70+ days.
How do you regain that excitement for the hobby when you try to do everything by the book and are very diligent just to get hit with everything going sideways? I’m just hoping at this point that my other fish can stick it through and see if I can catch any to treat.
After a week, the HG did polyp bailout. Not a clue why as parameters were fine and I dipped the coral. Next, one head at a time each torch coral would go from very healthy and lots of flesh on the skeleton to being deflated with lots of flesh still and then it all melting off within a day. Went from 15+ heads of high end torches to two. No clue why just presumably bacterial related. While that sucks, we can rebound.
Now, though, my fish are going down.... I was very diligent this time about doing a 6-8 week Qat treating with copper power at 2.5, deworming, and treating with metro and GC both internally and externally. Then, to my surprise, I see my tang with ick and an impossible task of trying to catch it and all my fish to treat. Ultimately, couldn’t trap them. I go to the next best thing of feeding heavy and soaking food in selcon. Seems to help the blue tang but then spreads to my potter angel which I see today has died. It’s so frustrating to go through such a stringent and time consuming QT and have it fail. I only assume it came in through inverts or corals as I do not have the space capacity to quarantine all these for 70+ days.
How do you regain that excitement for the hobby when you try to do everything by the book and are very diligent just to get hit with everything going sideways? I’m just hoping at this point that my other fish can stick it through and see if I can catch any to treat.