Bta

[pro99line]

Ok. I posted under another section and nobody has really been able to tell me what happened so I thought I would try here.

My BTA anemone got into the power head and my fish list went from
2 Blue Regal Tangs (1 6" med 1 10" lrg)
1 Engineer goby (10 inches long)
1 Coral beauty
1 orange damsel
1 six-line wrasse
2 green mandarins (1 sm, 1 med)
1 Kole Yellow Eye Tang
1 Clown tang
1 Emperor Angel

TO
1 Engineer goby (10 inches long)
2 green mandarins (1 sm, 1 med)
1 percula clownfish

Immediately when I noticed particles from the anemone coming out of the powerhead I took it out and put it in the quarantine tank, changed as much water as I had "30 gallons", started running charcoal in the magnum, and started wet skimming like crazy and PRAYED, but that wasn't enough. The first fish died within 30 minutes of me noticing the anemone in the powerhead. It seems like every 30 minutes another fish would die. The 10" regal was nex tot last to go and the emperor angel lasted many hours trying to breath and laying on the bottom before it died.

My question is what exactly did the anemone getting in the powerhead do to kill all these fish? Why did the engineer goby, mandarins, and clownfish not be affected? Please help seeing how I am wanting to know what happened to avoid another problem. The BTA is now at the LFS being hosted by a beautiful clown they have and it appears fine.

 

[dandandan]

It got chopped up and started to decay causing an ammonia spike. Your not going to be too popular around here there have been alot of posts about chopped up bta's.

 

[Toddrtrex]

I would be surprised if an ammonia spike would happen that quickly.

 

[pro99line]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7258607#post7258607 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dandandan
It got chopped up and started to decay causing an ammonia spike. Your not going to be too popular around here there have been alot of posts about chopped up bta's.

I checked the ammonia and it was between 0.3 and 0.6. I do not think that s what killed the fish so quickly.

 

[pro99line]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7258607#post7258607 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dandandan
It got chopped up and started to decay causing an ammonia spike. Your not going to be too popular around here there have been alot of posts about chopped up bta's.

I had a friend have his BTA chopped up and it just clouded up the water so he did a water change but nothing ever died. I have heard of others causing deaths so I am just curious what happened in my case. I tried searching for BTA's caught in powerheads but it really did not good.

 

[dandandan]

could have been a shock issue with the large water change? yeah i spose you right amonia prob would not stike that quick although 0.3 and 0.6 is a fair ammount of ammonia and your more tolerant fish survived

 

[pro99line]

Well I have had some other explanations about their digestive fluid that I think answered my question after researching it. Thanks everyone.