As the title states, i came home from work yesterday to find my red firefish stuck to the filter intake (dead) the day before, he was out and about and eating as normal. No signs of ich ever, no deformations or discolourations that ive ever seen since owning him.
Tank details:
15g tank, ac70 (ac50 impeller) filter with seachem matrix media and purigen, and a fluval sea powerhead.
Cycled since may (~7 months)
Inhabitants:
1 firefish (the dead one in question)
1 cleaner shrimp
small cleanup screw consisting of nessarius snails, 3 astrias, and a handful of dwarf ceriths
Corals:
2 red mushrooms, and 1 frogspawn colony. (both have been in tank for around 2 weeks)
Water parameters:
At time of discovery: salinity-1.026 , ammonia- .5ppm, nitrates-undetectable
24 hrs later: salinity- 1.026, ammonia-0ppm, nitrates- undetectable.
any ideas on what could have done it? He was quarantined before adding to the tank back in june, medicated with cupramine and observed for 6 weeks.
Could the corals have released some sort of toxin that only affected the fish? could he have just been old? TIA
Tank details:
15g tank, ac70 (ac50 impeller) filter with seachem matrix media and purigen, and a fluval sea powerhead.
Cycled since may (~7 months)
Inhabitants:
1 firefish (the dead one in question)
1 cleaner shrimp
small cleanup screw consisting of nessarius snails, 3 astrias, and a handful of dwarf ceriths
Corals:
2 red mushrooms, and 1 frogspawn colony. (both have been in tank for around 2 weeks)
Water parameters:
At time of discovery: salinity-1.026 , ammonia- .5ppm, nitrates-undetectable
24 hrs later: salinity- 1.026, ammonia-0ppm, nitrates- undetectable.
any ideas on what could have done it? He was quarantined before adding to the tank back in june, medicated with cupramine and observed for 6 weeks.
Could the corals have released some sort of toxin that only affected the fish? could he have just been old? TIA