Fish Wipe

[SaltyClone]

Sadly, I lost all of the fish in my tank over the last 2 weeks. Iam not sure what did them in other to explain how the last 2 fish were behaving.

I first lost a Kole Tang. He was out swimming the night before eating algae off of some of the rocks in the tank. I came home the next evening and found him dead. He was already stiff and gray when I pulled him out. I had my water tested that night and nothing was found.

Over the next 2 days, my Chromis started acting weird. I noticed that his color had started to fade from blue/green to a brownish color. He also started swimming next to and what looked like some type of mating behavior with one of my cardinals. They kept brushing up against one another and wiggling. Eventually I pulled the Chromis out when he just started to swim with his head up. Not gulping for air, but not swimming right.

After that, the two cardinals went fast. Found both at the bottom of the tank 1 day apart.

The sole survivor at the time was my engineer goby. But, as of today I can no longer find him. All of my corals and snails are doing fine, so I am wondering what could have possibly happended. I am currently running some carbon as suggested by my LFS. But, other than that, my water param are fine.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[kevin2000]

My 02

Sorry for your losses.

Unfortuantely you will never know exactly what killed your fish .. but the one thing that these types of threads have in common is the lack of quarantine before introducing fish.

You should consider letting your tank go without fish for about six weeks .. should help insure that whatever was killing your fish will die off on its own. You can setup a QT and begine Qting your first replacement fish while your tank sits fallow.

Heres a link to a good site which discusses many of the common fish diseases .. may help.

http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/fishdiseases.html

 

[paulamrein]

With something hitting that fast and leaving no tell-tale signs one could only speculate what it was. You sure no hand lotion or anything else was on your hands when you fed? I know velvet hits quick and kills but I never heard of anything with chromis and cardinal fish mystery deaths. If it was a copperbanded or a morish idol than obviously it would be something there. While there are no fish in the tank you may want to make sure you get the goby out too. Check around the sides and back of the tank because suprisingly enough they tend to jump. Think of it as a fresh start and a lesson well learned. I have been in it for 5 months and lost 12 fish.