Fishies we have known

[garvin90]

Lainey and I were just sitting here talking about all the fish I have kept(or attempted to) in my year and a half of personal reefing and I came up with a... surprising amount that have been sent to Davy Jones locker.

These the ones that have met with a untimely end...

2 Tomatoe Clowns
2 Pink Skunk Clowns
2 Saddle Clowns
2 Percula Clowns
1 Rainfordi Goby
1 Yellow Tang
1 Target Mandarin
1 Scooter Dragonet
1 Niger Trigger
1 Hippo Tang
1 Cleaner Goby
1 Saddleback Butterfly
1 Copperband Butterfly
2 Green Chromis
1 Purple Firefish
1 Hispidus Angler
1 Fuzzy Dwarf Lion
1 Fu Manchu Lion
2 Tangorao Gobies
3 Signal Gobies
1 Red Clown Goby
1 Black Clown Goby
1 Fiji Rabbitfish
1 True Scribbled Rabbitfish
2 Potters Angels
2 Coral Beauty Angels
3 Lamarcks Angels
1 Watanabei Angel
4 Kelloggi Seahorses
5 Banggai Cardinals
1 Bluestripe Pipe Fish
2 Sailfin Mollies
3 Bumble Gobies
2 Flounders(sposed to be brackish only, woops!)

It seems slightly appalling... i think. Btw if you were keeping track, thats 57. I gave up 3 fish to PC Pets, 1 Powder Brown, 1 Green Bird Wrasse and 1 Pineapple Trigger. My current (i hope!!!) stockin list is:
1 Vlamingii Tang
1 Copperband Butterfly
1 Yellow Clown Goby
1 Green Clown Goby
2 Sailfin Mollies
1 Lawnmower Blenny
1 Orangespot Prawn Goby
1 Scooter Dragonet
3 Engineer Gobies
2 Tomatoe Clowns
1 Niger Trigger

That brings me to a grand total of 74 fish I am keeping/have kept. Im looking at this as a learning experience since I do still have 2 of my original fish that I started with, the Orange Spot and the Lawnmower.

Thats my story, whats yours?

 

[garvin90]

The hippo and copperband were lost in quarantine. The niger, tang, fiji, rainford, saddles, scooter, 1 coral beauty, target and lamarcks were lost in a tank crash. The firefish, 1 potters, true scribbled, watanbe, and saddleback butterfly were all killed by the powder brown. The Fu Man Chu choked on a shrimp. The lion and angler are unknown causes. The seahorses did great for months then suddenly disapeared 1 by 1. The pipefish was lost in a rockslide. The chromis were done in by chromis. The other potters and other coral I have no idea. I have no success with angels. The tangoroas were lost shortly after the move from quarantine to main display. The clown gobies caught ick and never let the cleaners near them(and were to quick for me to catch). The cleaner goby jumped the night after I rescued it from INSIDE my protein skimmer. The mollies investigate the intake of my then HOB skimmer pump. I think my bigger fishes ate my bumblebees. The true percs were from a store that I have never had fish live for more than a few days. Same with the tomatos and a sailfin tang I forgot to mention. The banggais caught that weird "banggai only" disease and all bucked the kicket within a week. And the signals had a cave collapse, the survivor? My orangespot who shared his hole with them. The skunks decided to hang ten on my area rug. None of these are in preciding order of death, just the compiled stories of many a brave(or to slow for the collection cup) fish who has traversed the waters of my reef. I take no solice in any of these fishes death as a aide to experience or what have you. I should still have have all those fish lost in the tank crash, however it was a low oxygen issue due to over abundant macro and not enough dissolved O2 derived from a lack of a protein skimmer and hardly any surface movement.

 

[edwing206]

that is A LOT of fish you have gone through

 

[tom obrecht]

Are you just stating the facts or are you looking for advice? 75 fish in 1 1/2 years of fish keeping is WAY too many!

 

[lvpd186]

Ray, you are the GRIM REEPER of omaha fish! :rollface:

In all seriousness it does sound like a lot of fish. Do you get them all from the same place? Some of the fish on your list are, or can be, difficult to keep healthy (like the copperband). Maybe its bad luck, prior health problems (from the lfs or from how they were taken off of the reef) or something with your system, but I would want to try and figure it out before adding to many more fish.

 

[tom obrecht]

Ray,

I've been thinking. I agree with lvpd, give use as much info on your system as you can. Water chemistry numbers, how you have your system set up, equipment ect and maybe we can get you on track.

 

[garvin90]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8924474#post8924474 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by garvin90
The hippo and copperband were lost in quarantine. The niger, tang, fiji, rainford, saddles, scooter, 1 coral beauty, target and lamarcks were lost in a tank crash. The firefish, 1 potters, true scribbled, watanbe, and saddleback butterfly were all killed by the powder brown. The Fu Man Chu choked on a shrimp. The lion and angler are unknown causes. The seahorses did great for months then suddenly disapeared 1 by 1. The pipefish was lost in a rockslide. The chromis were done in by chromis. The other potters and other coral I have no idea. I have no success with angels. The tangoroas were lost shortly after the move from quarantine to main display. The clown gobies caught ick and never let the cleaners near them(and were to quick for me to catch). The cleaner goby jumped the night after I rescued it from INSIDE my protein skimmer. The mollies investigate the intake of my then HOB skimmer pump. I think my bigger fishes ate my bumblebees. The true percs were from a store that I have never had fish live for more than a few days. Same with the tomatos and a sailfin tang I forgot to mention. The banggais caught that weird "banggai only" disease and all bucked the kicket within a week. And the signals had a cave collapse, the survivor? My orangespot who shared his hole with them. The skunks decided to hang ten on my area rug. None of these are in preciding order of death, just the compiled stories of many a brave(or to slow for the collection cup) fish who has traversed the waters of my reef. I take no solice in any of these fishes death as a aide to experience or what have you. I should still have have all those fish lost in the tank crash, however it was a low oxygen issue due to over abundant macro and not enough dissolved O2 derived from a lack of a protein skimmer and hardly any surface movement.

I think that sums it up the most. The only fish I have ever just had absolutely no luck with is the angels. Other than my phosphates wont drop from 5.0(i just started jusing RO) everything else is 0. my sg is 1.024.

The only big die offs were the crash and that tang.

I seriously dont try to kill the fish and this was sposed to be a tongue in cheek thread about our fishy floaters.

 

[lvpd186]

Ray - sorry if I misinterpreted your thread. I've lost a couple of fish this last year as well. I lost, or rather fed, a nice pacific tang to a GBT. This is one of the big reasons I am getting rid of it, that and it killing some coral. I also lost a lawnmower blennie. I didn't have enough algae in my tank to support it. There were also two wrasses that didn't make it. One was probably acclimated wrong and the other got picked on so it stopped eating. I think your post caused some concern just because of the shear number of fish. Maybe now that your using RO/DI your luck will change a little (also you might want to add some egg-create or something over the top of your tank to stop the jumpers).

 

[lvpd186]

double post

 

[huskerreef]

Posting a big list like that will definetly open you up for some criticism. But since most of us know you and that you apear to be consciencous fish geek, I would say you have some very bad luck. I do agree with Brad and that RO will help. The fact that you have a QT which most of us don't says that you try to do it the right way. But that is an overwhelming amount of loss. I would recommend a good skimmer, water changes and not to buy any lottery ticket

 

[garvin90]

Ya know the funny thing is that I had that little 15gal(my first salt) running until Feb of last year from its start in august and I never had any fish death save one chromis. It wasnt until I upgraded to my 75 did bad things start happening. (prepares for a flame) I had even had my yellow tang in my 15 for several months till i moved everybody to the 75 and then 2 months later it all crashed.

Oh well. In a off note, my bubble tips are doing great! Can I have yours brad?

The funny thing is I do have eggcrate! lol it doesnt cover the entire top though and I found them of course where it doesnt cover, the front 6inchs.

 

[CH]

Wow, that's a lot.
I think the only ones I have lost since this tank was started a few years ago would be a couple of green chromis back in the beggining, and more recently a Kole Tang, which I don't think ever wanted to eat.
Otherwise, I have all of my original fish, with only an addition of a yellow tang recently.

Now, back in my earlier days before I knew much, I went through several more, but I was smart enough to stick to inexpensive damsels, and every now and then a yellow tang (back when they were under $15)