Your tank is going to go through another cycle now. If you can find someone to take your remaining livestock temporarily, and let the tank cycle would be ideal. I had a major tank crash like yours due to different reasons and I lost a lot of coral and some fish. I managed to get the remaining fish housed at Riverfront for a month, but that was quite pricey. I would offer to hold on to your puffer, but unfortunately he wouldn't be compatible in with my inhabitants. Hopefully you can find someone to house hiom for some time, just until your tank stabilizes. Good luck and sorry for your losses.

Thats what I am thinking, I think me adding the meds caused a cycle for some reason.. I am getting diatoms. The puffers are not looking good right now, their eyes started to turn white. The remaining tang, foxface, solar fairy wrasse and 3 chromis seem fine.

If someone would like to foster the fish.. it would be awesome. I am hoping to get my office tank up and running tomorrow.

man this is so terrible, I feel for ya, I sure hope some one can babysit them for you for a while!

I have a running RSM 34 gallon, you can throw any fishes in there if you like but I won't able to do cuppermine because it has coralsin it.

Or, it could be marine velvet and not ich to begin with for wich no snake oil will work. That is a real possibility.

if you tested for ammonia and there was none, then it is something else, something nasty.

Thanks tai. I will get back to you later tomorrow. This is such terrible timing. The office tank was not cloudy from me moving LR out of the tank, so I took the chance to move the puffers into the tank. Since its only half full of water and I didn't have any prepped, I put 2 power heads into the tank, and added an air bubbler. Once the water is ready, I can add it and te my old skimmer to run. My old cannister hasn't been turned on since the shutdown so I'll leave it off and start up the aquaclear 110.
What made matters worse is that I woke up my wife at 1am and it's her bday today. Needless to say, I am now sleeping in the guest bedroom :(

Thanks all for your help. I hope they make it through the day tomorrow, I won't be able to check on them until after dinner unfortunately.

Ok.. so I thought I would give an update. Whatever was in my tank wiped it out completely. After the puffers died, I only had a foxface, flame hawkfish (in the sump) and 3 chromis. I moved the foxface and hawkfish to my LFS. He has them QT'd and treating them for me while I figure out what crashed my tank.

The hermits, corals, starfish and snails are all fine. However I am having a brown algae bloom that wont go away. So I think somehow the meds caused my tank to cycle again.

NTS? I dont know, my system has been running for 3 or 4 months now.

2 chromis ended up dying as well, and the hermits and snails feasted on the body. There is only 1 chromis left, he looks healthy and greets me everyday when I get home to get some food. Hes a little weird though, anything I put into the tank: my hand, the prongs or net.. it looks like he swims by it and wacks it. Maybe this little guy is the culprit and stressing everybody out :twised: jk