i want to cry :( my clownfish died .. AND I DONT KNOW WHY

[oxkisses12ox]

i came home just now to find my clownfish in the rocks dead.... which is strange because my two clowns NEVER go in the rocks and i came home and the male was in the front of the tank as usual and i looked around for the female and she was no where to be found..... then i saw her in the rocks dead.....

my water parameters were all 0 , and my cleaner shrimp, other clown, goby hermits and horseshoe are all living and doing great as well as my corals....

there was nothing wrong with the clownfish and no ick or any disease was present...... it did have its top fin kind of chewed off but it was from bristle worms i think because when i found her they were all on her.......


ANYYYYY IDEA OF HOW SHE DIED AT ALL???????????????

 

[chevegan]

Pistol shrimp? Mantis shrimp? disease? number of things I guess, could be anything. And just a note, 2 serpent stars for a 14 is too much IMO.

 

[Justdrew]

Also watch out for that horseshoe. They get to be over a foot in size. I remember them getting in the crab pots on bay side at Ocean City, MD when I was little. They scared the living daylights out of me. If course back then they seemed like giant monsters, but in reality he can grow to be bigger than your 14 gallon tank itself.

Later
Drew

 

[waterfaller1]

How long did you have the fish? What is your SG. & are you using a refractometer to test? Are you using RO/DI water? Topping off daily? How is the flow, did you replace the pump with another? Generally nanos come with inadequate pumps.

 

[dippin61]

i second the watching the horseshoe crab... it can easily get a foot long.

 

[alan214]

I'd be much more suspicious of the Serpent Stars.

 

[vtrider]

the serpent star would have eaten it

 

[oxkisses12ox]

it wasnt eaten at all and i have had the clown for 5 months......... i use Natural sea water ........ i didnt change anything and i use a chemical test kit not the strips

 

[ralphie16]

why does nobody ever bring up the possibility of suicide?

my freshwater betta once took a nose dive into gravel and never came back up. looks like living in a 0.1 gallon cup didnt keep him happy..who would have thought....

 

[RumLad]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9350373#post9350373 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ralphie16
why does nobody ever bring up the possibility of suicide?

my freshwater betta once took a nose dive into gravel and never came back up. looks like living in a 0.1 gallon cup didnt keep him happy..who would have thought....

Perhaps he couldn't stand looking at your enormous reflection, and incessant tapping, on his 0.1 gal bowl any longer and decided death was better :lol:

As for the perc's, perhaps there just was not enough room in that 14 gal bioworld for all those creatures to live stress free?

 

[ralphie16]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9350583#post9350583 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RumLad
As for the perc's, perhaps there just was not enough room in that 14 gal bioworld for all those creatures to live stress free?

exactly what i was trying to get at..maybe all the parameters are fine but you dont know how much stress he could have been under.

how are you doing topoffs? do you have an ATO or do you manually fill it? maybe dumping in freshwater everyday stressed him? just a guess.its your tank so you knwo what you do. peace

 

[oxkisses12ox]

umm i use natural sea water and i do a water change once every 2 weeks....... no the other clown is fine and they only stayed in the same spot... they never swam around too much

 

[benray4fun]

When it's your time, "it's your time, " all your parameters may have been fine and maybe nothing happened at all. Life is like that ox, the fish could have died of natural causes and no fault of your own or anything else..."take your time picking out a new one."

 

[O'Man]

They can get internal parasites or parasites in the gills. Sorry.

 

[paeSona]

was he eating alot bc what the other guy said about stress with all those creaturess could be true.. u can notice this by him becoming fincky so to speak when it comes to eating.. and if he was hiding alot.. not swiimming alot also i portray as a sign of stress so he was prob. stressed out thats all i can thinkk.. just tough luckk but good luck with everything else and yeahh the 2 serpent starss is definitly to much for a 14 gal try sellin one or trading it in for a coral o something


good luckk...

 

[oxkisses12ox]

they are brittle stars i have to change that and they are only the size of a quarter......... ummm no she was eating a lot actually just as normal she begged for food!!! and she never went in the rocks and i never saw her in the rocks but i found her dead in them.... which was very stange..... parasites are very unikely too becuase i quarentined......... so i dont know! and my water is UV sterilized ......... i hope there is something im missing here.....!

 

[kismetsh]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9329221#post9329221 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by waterfaller1
What is your SG. & are you using a refractometer to test? Are you using RO/DI water? Topping off daily?

I didn't see this question answered. You stated you use natural sea water for your water changes but what about your topoff? What do you use and how often do you do it? What is your SG and how much does it fluctuate?

 

[reverendmaynard]

Yeah, if you never top off with fresh water, and just put a little more new water in than old water taken out with every water change, your SG is going up and up.

 

[Mr31415]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9350373#post9350373 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ralphie16
why does nobody ever bring up the possibility of suicide?

LOL Now that was funny.....

 

[ralphie16]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9351982#post9351982 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by oxkisses12ox
umm i use natural sea water and i do a water change once every 2 weeks....... no the other clown is fine and they only stayed in the same spot... they never swam around too much

I did not realize little kids type like they talk....ummmmm

anyways, your response to my inquiry did not make sense. I asked how you do your freshwater top off. you replied you use natural seawater. what does freshwater topoffs have to do with using natural or artifical seawater????

I am no chemist but I am pretty sure that natural seawater also evaporates. But then again I dont have any advanced degrees in chemistry to figure that out for myself.

so i think we have found that answer on how you killed your clownfish.