Ab129
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So I've been having this ongoing algae problem and been manually removing what I can from time to time. While vacuuming out today I accidentally sucked up a small rbta that was bleached and just sitting on the sand.
I was collecting the algae in a filter sock and when I was finished I dug out the anemone and dropped him back in the tank.
A little while later I noticed my clowns and my puffer were hiding in the rocks.
My tang and trigger seemed fine. Clowns and puffer didn't come out to eat, tang and trigger ate.
Then a little later I noticed the puffer didn't look good at all. Just laying on his side in the sand. At the same time my trigger was going into convulsions in the rocks and my tang was not looking good, at the surface looking like he couldn't breathe.
2 hours later and the tang, trigger and puffer are gone.
Clowns are presumed dead, haven't been seen.
The only possible conclusion I can come to is some kind of poisoning from the anemone.
I am beside myself.
After losing my whole tank, except for the tang, to ich a year and a half ago I have been so careful with TTM and quarantine only to be undone by this.
I am going to take a few months off and restock in the fall.
What do I need to do between now and then to make sure I won't have any problems with my new fish?
I was collecting the algae in a filter sock and when I was finished I dug out the anemone and dropped him back in the tank.
A little while later I noticed my clowns and my puffer were hiding in the rocks.
My tang and trigger seemed fine. Clowns and puffer didn't come out to eat, tang and trigger ate.
Then a little later I noticed the puffer didn't look good at all. Just laying on his side in the sand. At the same time my trigger was going into convulsions in the rocks and my tang was not looking good, at the surface looking like he couldn't breathe.
2 hours later and the tang, trigger and puffer are gone.
Clowns are presumed dead, haven't been seen.
The only possible conclusion I can come to is some kind of poisoning from the anemone.
I am beside myself.
After losing my whole tank, except for the tang, to ich a year and a half ago I have been so careful with TTM and quarantine only to be undone by this.
I am going to take a few months off and restock in the fall.
What do I need to do between now and then to make sure I won't have any problems with my new fish?