ag09g
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So I took a little four day mini vacation to the Florida Keys this past weekend. Naturally I decided to do a little bit of collecting so I got a few fish, gorgonias, zoanthids, coral banded shrimp, a rock anemone, starfish and some sargassum shrimps/anonymous algae.
Yesterday we got home, everyone survived the trip and the new additions were added to a well established quarantine tank. All fish were eating last night and the corals had opened up; everything looked perfect and beautiful. At approximately 1am I checked on the tank and everyone was alive and well.
At 930-10am I woke up and, to my horror, the tank was cloudy and every fish and shrimp had died. The odd thing is that every coral was fully extended and looking completely healthy.
So....any ideas what happened? It seems to me like something released a toxin since the corals are unaffected, but I really dont know what would have done it. I did collect a piece of coralline algae that had some sponge/tunicates on it, I thought perhaps those had died and released something but I smelled it and nothing smelled bad and the pieces all looked firm and in tact.
Im glad the corals all survived but I am super bummed to have killed all those beautiful healthy fish :'(
Any help figuring this out is greatly appreciated!
Yesterday we got home, everyone survived the trip and the new additions were added to a well established quarantine tank. All fish were eating last night and the corals had opened up; everything looked perfect and beautiful. At approximately 1am I checked on the tank and everyone was alive and well.
At 930-10am I woke up and, to my horror, the tank was cloudy and every fish and shrimp had died. The odd thing is that every coral was fully extended and looking completely healthy.
So....any ideas what happened? It seems to me like something released a toxin since the corals are unaffected, but I really dont know what would have done it. I did collect a piece of coralline algae that had some sponge/tunicates on it, I thought perhaps those had died and released something but I smelled it and nothing smelled bad and the pieces all looked firm and in tact.
Im glad the corals all survived but I am super bummed to have killed all those beautiful healthy fish :'(
Any help figuring this out is greatly appreciated!