Not entirely sure where to post this, but trying to wrap my head around what has happened.
I had an oscelleris clown that I've had for 7 months pass away seemingly at random. I fed my tank this morning, everyone ate. I checked on the tank before I’d left around 2-3pm, when I’d got home I didn’t peek in but I went by the tank later and I noticed a clown on its way out (around 12am) I’ve inspected it and I do not see anything unusual - no ich, no damaged fins, not bloated, etc. It was laying on its side on top of my rock right underneath my hammer coral.
As the clown was passing, I picked it up in a net and kept it away as I saw my cleaner shrimp picking at it. While in the net, I was inspecting it... Not rapidly breathing, just going limp. I decided to offer it a "last meal" of it's favorite - frozen mysis... and it ate while in a net near the surface. I eventually put it in the freezer to put it down as humanely as possible after doing some research online (no clove oil on hand).
I have another clown in the tank, a six line wrasse, cleaner shrimp and various CUC (hermits & snails).
Did a parameter test, everything seems fine there as well...
NH3 - 0ppm
NO2 - 0ppm
NO3 - 0-5ppm
Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 77° F
No recent additions to the tank aside from some coral a couple of weeks ago... But these came from the same LFS that all my livestock has come from, and I use their water for my weekly changes. As far as I am aware, I do not have anything that could harm any of my fish (LPS, mushrooms, and softy tank).
Immediately after the fish passed I did a small water change, but I'm trying to wrap my head around what may have happened here.
Not sure if there's any additional info I can provide, but happy to if it clears anything up.
I had an oscelleris clown that I've had for 7 months pass away seemingly at random. I fed my tank this morning, everyone ate. I checked on the tank before I’d left around 2-3pm, when I’d got home I didn’t peek in but I went by the tank later and I noticed a clown on its way out (around 12am) I’ve inspected it and I do not see anything unusual - no ich, no damaged fins, not bloated, etc. It was laying on its side on top of my rock right underneath my hammer coral.
As the clown was passing, I picked it up in a net and kept it away as I saw my cleaner shrimp picking at it. While in the net, I was inspecting it... Not rapidly breathing, just going limp. I decided to offer it a "last meal" of it's favorite - frozen mysis... and it ate while in a net near the surface. I eventually put it in the freezer to put it down as humanely as possible after doing some research online (no clove oil on hand).
I have another clown in the tank, a six line wrasse, cleaner shrimp and various CUC (hermits & snails).
Did a parameter test, everything seems fine there as well...
NH3 - 0ppm
NO2 - 0ppm
NO3 - 0-5ppm
Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 77° F
No recent additions to the tank aside from some coral a couple of weeks ago... But these came from the same LFS that all my livestock has come from, and I use their water for my weekly changes. As far as I am aware, I do not have anything that could harm any of my fish (LPS, mushrooms, and softy tank).
Immediately after the fish passed I did a small water change, but I'm trying to wrap my head around what may have happened here.
Not sure if there's any additional info I can provide, but happy to if it clears anything up.