Clowns keep dying

vette.tech

New member
Bear with me on this. I did some searching and it seems like new people to the hobby have this problem but mine is a little different situation. I have a relatively new tank (75 gal and about 5 months old) and I have an established tank (34 gal and a couple years old) I have a bangai cardinal, longnose hawk and a longnose butterfly and used to have a Midas blenny in the 75 and wanted some fancy clowns so I got a blizzard clown and a snowflake, after a couple weeks they both had nipped fins then a few days later died. Then I tried a naked oscellaris, same thing happened. Thought it was the Midas blenny so I got him out. Then I put in an oscellaris from my 34 who I've had for a couple years. Does fine for a while so I get a small naked clown hoping they'd pair up, everything was fine for a week or two then the same thing, a nipped fin and dies a few days later. Then just last night after being in the tank for a month I see a nipped fin on the old guy and he won't eat, this morning I found him dead. I know this is long winded but I'm at a total loss and really ****ed about losing all these guys especially my old clown as he was my first fish. What in the heck could be going on, all params are good and all coral in both tanks look better than ever, same with the existing fish
 
If all your parm are good, them somethimg in your tank is stressing them out. Try a new clown in the 34, the move the other fish over 1 at a time and see what happens.

Good luck
 
It sounds like one of your other fish is killing them, hence the nipped fins you mentioned before the death of all your fish
 
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