not happy lost a fish

[mtcoins123]

so i will start out with water param.
PH 8.4
SAL 1.023
CALCIUM 413
NITRATE 0.5mg/l
NITRITE 14ppb
ALK 157ppm 8.7dkh
PHOSPHATE 0.29ppm
IODINE 1.9ppm
PHOSPHORUS 83ppb
IRON 0.01ppm
AMONIA 0.0 - 0.05
TANK MATES (1) 8" algae blennie (1)Small shark 9" or 10" (from a dixie cup) (2) file fish 1.5" and almost 3" (6) fire fish (1) blue damsal 1" aprox. (35 or 40) shrimp (8) sand sifting stars
i know angler fish are a difficult species found him in a lfs in a cricket box inside a 30g tank "kept there because he was hard to show off behind a rock" i knew better when i bought it but i kind of felt "he will be far better of in my reef" i have a very large supply of live shrimp fire and cleaner (he has eaten and is welcome to)i have also fed ghost shrimp / guppies twice a week (i put about 15-20 in when i do small shark to feed also) i have seen him eat twice in the last two weeks (i figured he was eating when i was watching) i have had him almost a month, he has never been a very aggresive fish always very slow and would stalk the shrimp constantly. i actually feel as though he was "slow" twice i have seen him (not recently) come up into the middle of the tank and just drift in the current of the return. my thought is that he may have been a cyanide caught fish does anyone have a link to (how to identify signs of this?) also i recently "moved" from a 250 pennisula to my current 365 i have about 290 or 320 lbs of LR in my dt i have had for well over a year. after the move i lost a tang to ich i was very worried for my other fish but they seem to have come out of it fairly well until now. i saw no signs of ich in my angler no fidgity action no "scratching" or cysts..... so i am still thinking damaged from cyanide what do you guys think? i am working my alk and cal up i know thats a little low

 

[mtcoins123]

i have also been looking for the proper iodine levels for nsw or "below toxic" does anyone know that?

 

[PaxRoma]

cyanide caught fish tends to not eat and slowly wasting away. I think in your case it maybe another reason though. There are traces of ammonia and or nitrite in your tank indicating it is crashing (if it was an established tank) or the tank is still cycling if it is a new tank you are just setting up.

 

[MrTuskfish]

cyanide caught fish tends to not eat and slowly wasting away. I think in your case it maybe another reason though. There are traces of ammonia and or nitrite in your tank indicating it is crashing (if it was an established tank) or the tank is still cycling if it is a new tank you are just setting up.

I agree with all of this post. By the time cyanide caught fish get to you, they don't eat. Also, if ich went untreated, its almost certainly still in the tank. Many fish can develop TEMPORARY immunity to some strains of ich or be able to fight it off for a while. but the ich still survives in various stages or in a fish's gills. Not being able to see ich signs (you never see the actual parasite) doesn't mean its gone. Sooner or later, the ich will show up in numbers that will be a real problem. Not 100$ of the time, but much more often that not. Did you us a QT with the Angler?

 

[A sea K]

cyanide caught fish tends to not eat and slowly wasting away. I think in your case it maybe another reason though. There are traces of ammonia and or nitrite in your tank indicating it is crashing (if it was an established tank) or the tank is still cycling if it is a new tank you are just setting up.

Don't know how sensitive Anglers are but I would agree ammonia and nitrite the most likely culprit. Don't feel the tank is crashing but most likely a mini cycle from the recent move.