Last month I lost my beautiful Purple Tang. Not sure why but one day he was doing fine and the next dat not so well, very motionless, leaning on a rock, ate a bit, then died the next day. No apparent ick or anything visible. I thought perhaps old age since nothing seemed to be wrong with anything else.
I replaced the tang with a Mandarin and a Coral Beauty. Acclimated them, all was fine. About two weeks later my Blue Tang developed ick, took me about two weeks to get her back to looking beautiful by using Galric and Selcon soaked food. I also tried mixing a bit of Seachem Metronidazole in the food a few times but I preferred to stick with the garlic and Selcon and have the fish just eat. No other fish really showed signs of the ick like my Blue Tang.
About two weeks later, my Mandarin died. Not sure why. I understand they are finicky eaters and only eat copepods. Since my tank has been established for about 4 years with about 110 lbs of rock LFS suggested he would be fine. The very next day, I found the empty shell of my Tuxedo Urchin alongside a pile of his needles. I have read somewhere that when the Tuxedos die they release toxins an should be removed immediately. I am not sure if the urchin died first and I didn't see it and that killed the Mandarin or if the Mandarin wasn't getting enough food or what. He was kinda fat so I don't really think he starved. I have no idea what killed the Urchin as he was moving around the tank as usual carrying everything with him that he could. Plenty of coraline algea to feed on. I did a 15 gallon water change right after. Now this morning, I noticed my Coral Beauty laying on its side and lethargic similar to the Purple Tang a month or so prior. I fed her some mysis shrimp soaked in garlkic and selcon and she ate, not sure if she will make it.
To give you an overall view of thank... here is what I have:
92g
175 w MH and 2 36w acintic blue lamp
110 lbs live rock
2 Koralia powerheads for flow
Euro reef Skimmer in sump
Heater with temp around 79f
RO water used only and do at least 10% -15% water changes per week
use PhosBan and run carbon for about 1 week each month
2 clowns
1 firefish
1 diamon goby
1 coral beauty
1 LTA
1 six line wrasse
1 yellow tang
1 mystery wrasse
1 blue tang
several corals
I tested my water right after and this and my test results came back as this...
Ammonia: .20 ppm (perhaps becasue the fish died)
Nitrites: .05 ppm
PH: 8.2
Nitrates: .05ppm
Calcium: 470
Phosphate: 0ppm
I test my water every two weeks and paramteres are always good.
Any thoughts as to what might be going on in my tank?
MLK
I replaced the tang with a Mandarin and a Coral Beauty. Acclimated them, all was fine. About two weeks later my Blue Tang developed ick, took me about two weeks to get her back to looking beautiful by using Galric and Selcon soaked food. I also tried mixing a bit of Seachem Metronidazole in the food a few times but I preferred to stick with the garlic and Selcon and have the fish just eat. No other fish really showed signs of the ick like my Blue Tang.
About two weeks later, my Mandarin died. Not sure why. I understand they are finicky eaters and only eat copepods. Since my tank has been established for about 4 years with about 110 lbs of rock LFS suggested he would be fine. The very next day, I found the empty shell of my Tuxedo Urchin alongside a pile of his needles. I have read somewhere that when the Tuxedos die they release toxins an should be removed immediately. I am not sure if the urchin died first and I didn't see it and that killed the Mandarin or if the Mandarin wasn't getting enough food or what. He was kinda fat so I don't really think he starved. I have no idea what killed the Urchin as he was moving around the tank as usual carrying everything with him that he could. Plenty of coraline algea to feed on. I did a 15 gallon water change right after. Now this morning, I noticed my Coral Beauty laying on its side and lethargic similar to the Purple Tang a month or so prior. I fed her some mysis shrimp soaked in garlkic and selcon and she ate, not sure if she will make it.
To give you an overall view of thank... here is what I have:
92g
175 w MH and 2 36w acintic blue lamp
110 lbs live rock
2 Koralia powerheads for flow
Euro reef Skimmer in sump
Heater with temp around 79f
RO water used only and do at least 10% -15% water changes per week
use PhosBan and run carbon for about 1 week each month
2 clowns
1 firefish
1 diamon goby
1 coral beauty
1 LTA
1 six line wrasse
1 yellow tang
1 mystery wrasse
1 blue tang
several corals
I tested my water right after and this and my test results came back as this...
Ammonia: .20 ppm (perhaps becasue the fish died)
Nitrites: .05 ppm
PH: 8.2
Nitrates: .05ppm
Calcium: 470
Phosphate: 0ppm
I test my water every two weeks and paramteres are always good.
Any thoughts as to what might be going on in my tank?
MLK