A bit of a double post, but I can't figure out how to delete a previous thread.
Anyways, in my last one I explained my dead Tomini Tang, no visible cause of death. Was eating nori and frozen. It did have some odd white spots on it days before it died that I couldn't figure out, but nothing spread to my other fish. It was alive and well at 11pm last night and dead by 8:45am. No time for tests before work, I dose prime in case of an ammonia spike.
I go home at lunch to try and diagnose any issues, and discover my lemonpeel angel is also dead, in a cave not 2 inches from where the tang was. No apparent cause of death, still had all of its scales, looked just like a perfectly healthy fish aside for the fact that it was dead. It was eating nori and frozen as well.
Both of these fish were added a month ago along with a Flame Hawkfish and Cleaner Wrasse, to go with the Dwarf Fuzzy lionfish, Marine Betta and Greyfaced Eel that were already in, and were happily swimming and eating. What really gets me is nothing else was affected, my snails are still alive, my hermit crabs are still alive and the other fish look just fine, except the colours in the Lionfish are a bit dull but he has been on a hunger strike a few days. Maybe related?
55 Gallon Tank (Yes I am upgrading soon)
Salinity 1.023
Temp 76-77F
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate between 40-80. This is pretty standard for my tank as I have a ton of Predators and have been trying to lower it.
Test Kits are API Ammonia with the liquids and API test strips for the rest. Not exactly accurate, but will be getting better testing supplies.
Basically, what can kill two fish, possibly at the same time/place while leaving everything else in the tank untouched?
Anyways, in my last one I explained my dead Tomini Tang, no visible cause of death. Was eating nori and frozen. It did have some odd white spots on it days before it died that I couldn't figure out, but nothing spread to my other fish. It was alive and well at 11pm last night and dead by 8:45am. No time for tests before work, I dose prime in case of an ammonia spike.
I go home at lunch to try and diagnose any issues, and discover my lemonpeel angel is also dead, in a cave not 2 inches from where the tang was. No apparent cause of death, still had all of its scales, looked just like a perfectly healthy fish aside for the fact that it was dead. It was eating nori and frozen as well.
Both of these fish were added a month ago along with a Flame Hawkfish and Cleaner Wrasse, to go with the Dwarf Fuzzy lionfish, Marine Betta and Greyfaced Eel that were already in, and were happily swimming and eating. What really gets me is nothing else was affected, my snails are still alive, my hermit crabs are still alive and the other fish look just fine, except the colours in the Lionfish are a bit dull but he has been on a hunger strike a few days. Maybe related?
55 Gallon Tank (Yes I am upgrading soon)
Salinity 1.023
Temp 76-77F
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate between 40-80. This is pretty standard for my tank as I have a ton of Predators and have been trying to lower it.
Test Kits are API Ammonia with the liquids and API test strips for the rest. Not exactly accurate, but will be getting better testing supplies.
Basically, what can kill two fish, possibly at the same time/place while leaving everything else in the tank untouched?