at this point I have a humu trigger at 4'', a dog face puffer at about 5'' maybe a little more, a powder blue tang at 51/2", and a panther grouper pushing 8". so about 3 months ago with that current stock of fish, I was at a my lfs (not reefscapes) and saw a beautiful male blue jaw trigger fish that's about 31/2" and I always wanted one. but for some reason I never got one from reefscapes. so I just had to have it. I never consulted the place that stocked my tank about it so that was the first place I went wrong. so I took it home and put in my hospital tank/quarantine tank that I use for my other tanks. it was in there for about a month and a half and nothing showed up. so I figured it was okay to put it in the display with the other fish. the transfer went great and the only bad thing that happened was the humu charged the blue jaw as soon as it went into the tank but never touched it after that. this is when things started going down hill. in about 3 days my powder blue lost its vibrant colors and turned to a pale blue. I was very upset and iv never seen this happen before and I knew the blue jaw had to have something to do with it. the tang stopped eating, but still had a big belly so it wasn't hard to diagnose and treat. luckily there are no corals or inverts in the tank so I just treated the whole tank with general cure from API. after the treatment was finished the tangs colors where back and eating like usual again. for about a month everything was great even the blue jaw trigger was doing great. then I left for vacation and was gone for a week, even had a friend come by and give the tang a vegie sheet. unfortunately my friend did not tell me that when he came to give the tang a vegie sheet, he didn't tell me that the AC wasn't working. and living in florida that's not good. when I got back the water temp was 96. I was very upset and concerned but all the fish were still alive probably only because the large amount of flow I have and the aeration I have in the sump I think probably helped. but I could not get the AC fixed for another week so I put a window unit by the tank and hoped it would cool it off. it didn't do much because my family's house is rather large and except for bed rooms its just one big open space and the tank is in that open space but I brought the temp down to 91. I even got sick one night sleeping in the heat. eventually the AC was fixed and all the fish seemed fine. but the next day the humu triggers fins started to tear and it looked like fin rot. so I went to the lfs and was told to use this med called paraguard from seachem. I used it for a week and things only got worse 
so I went to reefscapes this time very concerned and told them what happened. they recommended bifuran, it was a yellow powder that turned my tank to this yellow color. this stuff did not work at all and then my entire tank started to act sick. I fallowed the directions on the bottle exactly after 3 days the first fish I ever had and my favorite, the humu trigger, is dead and ever since I put that stuff in the tank non of the fish have eaten until I did a 25% water change after stopping the treatment. the grouper and blue jaw both have their appetite back but the puffer will try to eat but spits his favorite food out and the powder blue tang will eat but only the vegie sheets. the tang has lost quite a bit of weight since I put the first medication in. its been a little over a week since I stopped all treatments but the water still has a yellow tint to it, all water perimeters are fine and im doing a 25% water change every other day with carbon filtration. im just worried that another fish might die, the blue jaw has ripped up fins now even though there is no aggression in the tank. and the other day I had a power outage only in my neighbor hood and then one of my power heads started putting off stray voltage and I tested for that and it was putting out 55volts for a few days until I put my hand in the water and I had a little cut on my hand and I could feel it there. so I narrowed it down to that single power head and took it out and now its 20volts which I have read that its okay there. so my fish have been through a lot and i could use some help to get the tank back to its old awesome self. and I still don't know what to do with that disease that had to have been from the blue jaw trigger. sorry about the essay I wrote but I wanted yall to have the full story about what's going on. I can provide pictures if needed and thank you so much for any help you can give!
so I went to reefscapes this time very concerned and told them what happened. they recommended bifuran, it was a yellow powder that turned my tank to this yellow color. this stuff did not work at all and then my entire tank started to act sick. I fallowed the directions on the bottle exactly after 3 days the first fish I ever had and my favorite, the humu trigger, is dead and ever since I put that stuff in the tank non of the fish have eaten until I did a 25% water change after stopping the treatment. the grouper and blue jaw both have their appetite back but the puffer will try to eat but spits his favorite food out and the powder blue tang will eat but only the vegie sheets. the tang has lost quite a bit of weight since I put the first medication in. its been a little over a week since I stopped all treatments but the water still has a yellow tint to it, all water perimeters are fine and im doing a 25% water change every other day with carbon filtration. im just worried that another fish might die, the blue jaw has ripped up fins now even though there is no aggression in the tank. and the other day I had a power outage only in my neighbor hood and then one of my power heads started putting off stray voltage and I tested for that and it was putting out 55volts for a few days until I put my hand in the water and I had a little cut on my hand and I could feel it there. so I narrowed it down to that single power head and took it out and now its 20volts which I have read that its okay there. so my fish have been through a lot and i could use some help to get the tank back to its old awesome self. and I still don't know what to do with that disease that had to have been from the blue jaw trigger. sorry about the essay I wrote but I wanted yall to have the full story about what's going on. I can provide pictures if needed and thank you so much for any help you can give!
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