Lost 2 fish in 2 days

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One of my blacker ice clowns decided to jump out of the aquarium in the middle of the night. Peaceful tank, that loss is just my luck.

But what I can’t figure out is why my red rooster wasp fish died. I got him a week ago, and today he bit the bullet. He was just sitting on the sand bed still enough that I questioned his liveliness and so I booped him with the pipet and get slowly backed away.. ok little feller I’ll leave you be. Well about 3hrs later I just happened to look at the tank and saw him convulsing for a few seconds then went belly up.

I’ve been very minimally dosing seachem reef trace. Are wasp fish that intolerant of copper, or something else that’s in the reef trace?

Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 5
Salinity 1.024
Temp 7
Ph 8.2
Alk 9.2
Calcium 440
Mag 1300
 
Did you QT the new fish?
 
i'm pretty sure wasp fish are sensitive to copper like most preds

why are you dosing copper in ur main display anyways?
 

WHICH PART OF YOUR SETUP IS HARDEST TO REACH OR REMOVE FOR ROUTINE MAINTENANCE?

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