Fish are dieing - don't know why

[Frenchie]

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[dsaundry]

What is your salinity level??

[Frenchie]

What is your salinity level??

Salinity is 1.026

[Trigger Man]

have you seen your blue tang picking at them. On the dead fish is there any signs of being attacked? I would recommend a waterchange anyway and put some carbon in just incase it is something in the water.

[Frenchie]

I did notice some of my yellow tangs fins were niped. And when I found my tang dead one of my sps frags had been broken, so I assumed a fight. But when I found the rabit fish dead I thought it might be something else.

I'm running carbon 24/7 and I'll be doing daily water changes.

Has anyone expierienced a killer blue tang? Or Does anyone have any other ideas?

[Whatigot]

how long were these fish in your tank for?

[Leah]

For what its worth my blue is the king, he is only 2 inches and he chases my fox and
anthia. The fox is 3 times his size and the anthia at least twice. He has a huge ego!
Think I would go for the water change and carbon to be safe.

[Frenchie]

The tang was in for only 2 months, the rabbit fish was in for 4 months. The blue tang is twice the size of them,hes around 5 inches long.

The crazy thing is that they both looked fine just hours before their deaths....

[Whatigot]

hmmmm.
hate these murder mysteries...

[subman]

hmmmm.
hate these murder mysteries...

Call Angela Lansbury!


Wow I just dated myself:redface:

[Frenchie]

hmmmm.
hate these murder mysteries...

I think it was the blue tang in the study with the candle stick...

[Rbacchiega]

I've been going through the same thing Frenchie. Lost my CBB, Ember Blenny and one of my Cardinals a couple days (a week?) ago. Things have stopped dieing now, corals are still looking good. I just upped the water change to around 25% per week, changed out my carbon and tried to avoid doing anything else in the tank to avoid uneccessary stress.

Things are looking better now, havn't lost a fish *knock on wood* and have noticed some new growth in my SPS frags....

hope things straighten themselves out for you soon

[Whatigot]

I think it was the blue tang in the study with the candle stick...

pfffft....
reef clue...
I think there is a market there.:lol:

[Rbacchiega]

I vote that it was Mr Peacock (Mantis), in the cave with/using the...rope. (Yes, that's it, the mighty underwater lasso)

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

My Blue Tang (about 7-8") is by far king of my tank. He is not always a little brat but will chase fish around once in a while. He has stressed my Harlequin Tusk out pretty bad at times.

[fishoholic]

I think it was the blue tang in the study with the candle stick...

pfffft....
reef clue...
I think there is a market there.:lol:

I vote that it was Mr Peacock (Mantis), in the cave with/using the...rope. (Yes, that's it, the mighty underwater lasso)

:lol: reef clue, I love it!

[naesco]

Monday my yellow tang died. Yesterday my fox face went.

Its strange because they show no signs of illness, hours before their deaths they were eating and acting normal. And all the coral looks great.

I have been trying to raise my kh with the brs 2 part mix, but I only added 50 ml?

Could my blue tang be killing them? Hes alot bigger then they were.

Parameters are as follows

Ph- 8.2
No3- 0
No2- 0
No1- 0
Phosphates - 0
Ca- 420
Kh- 7.5
Mg- 1200

I'm stumped... and crushed!

I am sorry to hear of the fish loss
What kind of `blue`tang do you have and when did you add him

[Frenchie]

I am sorry to hear of the fish loss
What kind of `blue`tang do you have and when did you add him

Hes a regal tang. I added him about two months ago..

[naesco]

Monday my yellow tang died. Yesterday my fox face went.

Its strange because they show no signs of illness, hours before their deaths they were eating and acting normal. And all the coral looks great.

I have been trying to raise my kh with the brs 2 part mix, but I only added 50 ml?

Could my blue tang be killing them? Hes alot bigger then they were.

Parameters are as follows

Ph- 8.2
No3- 0
No2- 0
No1- 0
Phosphates - 0
Ca- 420
Kh- 7.5
Mg- 1200

I'm stumped... and crushed!

I would not be the regal tang responsible for the death.
Either the most recently added fish carried a pathogen (he would be sick too) or a change ocurred in your water ,temperature or there was oxygen starvation for some reason.