Lost fish today

[Dombake]

So 6 months in and lost my first fish today, one if my red spot Cardinal fish. the other 5 all still look healthy (the one that has gone didn't look wrong, although I noticed one wasn't feeding as much as the others over the last few days.

Anyway, the cuc finished it before I had any chance to remove it. I know how it's possible for fish to "disappear" now... Crazy how fast they went through it.

I'll keep a close eye on the others now and increase my testing to monitor nitrate.

Is there anything else I should be thinking about?

Thank you.

 

[Animagus]

Join the club main... Consider it collateral damage....

This won't happen once you get some notches on your belt. (time) That was kind of a bad way of putting it, but it was the truth... GL.

 

[BigEZ77]

Sorry to hear that. I've actually lost two fish over quite a few months. The first (yellow wrasse) I don't think was healthy to begin with and the other (clown goby) just disappeared one day, not sure what happened...all others have been good and healthy.

 

[pyithar]

So 6 months in and lost my first fish today, one if my red spot Cardinal fish. the other 5 all still look healthy (the one that has gone didn't look wrong, although I noticed one wasn't feeding as much as the others over the last few days.

Anyway, the cuc finished it before I had any chance to remove it. I know how it's possible for fish to "disappear" now... Crazy how fast they went through it.

I'll keep a close eye on the others now and increase my testing to monitor nitrate.

Is there anything else I should be thinking about?

Thank you.

i'm sorry for your loss.
fish can tolerate higher nitrate level than corals can. it's ammonia that's toxic.

 

[mcgyvr]

Yep.. I've had fish doing just fine in easily 100+ppm levels of nitrates..

 

[Dombake]

Thanks everyone. It was more my corals and the potential other effect last of high levels of nitrate I was worried about. I'm watching ammonia too and about to do a 20% water change for good measure.

 

[bat21]

I also always feel compelled to immediately do a large water change after any fish dies.

But sometimes fish just die without explanation. A little filefish that I had for several months just disappeared one night. My wife could not comprehend how a fish could just vanish. But they do, and it's very very frustrating. A helpless feeling to not know what to 'fix' in a hobby where we are constantly looking to fix things.