Hello,
I recently set up my first reef tank about a month and a half ago after years of being in to freshwater. 3 weeks ago after checking all of my parameters, I added my first fish. A pair of clowns, flame Hawkfish, a striped blenny and Coris wrasse. Everything seemed great, they were bought from my LFS, i acclimated them properly and a week later the Hawkfish died. I looked for signs of ich and marine velvet but they all seemed to act completely normal. I checked my parameters to make sure the addition of livestock didn't completely throw it out of whack and they still tested normal. I waited 2-3 weeks and decided to finish my addition of livestock after all of the beginning fish were still alive and showed no signs of distress or disease. I added a royal gramma and firefish. 3 days later, both dead in the same spot i found the flame hawk. My theory is that maybe the blenny is killing them? It's a 40 breeder and the blenny likes to hang out around this specific cave. Could it be that territorial that it'll kill other cave type fish? It is very frustrating to say the least but it is the only thing i can think of as they all turn up dead around that same area.
I recently set up my first reef tank about a month and a half ago after years of being in to freshwater. 3 weeks ago after checking all of my parameters, I added my first fish. A pair of clowns, flame Hawkfish, a striped blenny and Coris wrasse. Everything seemed great, they were bought from my LFS, i acclimated them properly and a week later the Hawkfish died. I looked for signs of ich and marine velvet but they all seemed to act completely normal. I checked my parameters to make sure the addition of livestock didn't completely throw it out of whack and they still tested normal. I waited 2-3 weeks and decided to finish my addition of livestock after all of the beginning fish were still alive and showed no signs of distress or disease. I added a royal gramma and firefish. 3 days later, both dead in the same spot i found the flame hawk. My theory is that maybe the blenny is killing them? It's a 40 breeder and the blenny likes to hang out around this specific cave. Could it be that territorial that it'll kill other cave type fish? It is very frustrating to say the least but it is the only thing i can think of as they all turn up dead around that same area.