Hello all,
I started a thread a few days ago about my quarantine tank. Tonight something happened, and I am not quite sure if this is real life or a nightmare.
Make a long story short, I had an ich outbreak, and quarantined the fish I had, and added some to it to be quarantine 8 weeks while main tank goes fallow.
All was well and fine, then tonight happened. Its a 75 gallon tank, no rock, just pvc hiding places, with a 20 gallon long sump. The fish in 75 qt are: 4 inch Moorish idol, 3 inch sailfin, 3 inch purple tang, 1 inch xmas wrasse, 1 inch hippo, 2 damsels, and 2 small (nickel size) clowns. In the sump is an Achilles tang, by himself.
I am running cupramine, .5 level, and the fish have been in there for 4 weeks, no issues all eating.
Two weeks ago I picked up a blonde nase my lfs brought in for me, about 3 inches. He was doing okay, eating, mostly hiding.
Sunday, I got a regular naso, about 4 inches. No fighting, all eating, this particular naso was fat and a feisty eater.
I got home from work today, and fed the fish, all seem well. About 4 hours later I go back to shut off lights, and I notice the bigger naso, is barely swimming, and has a white blotch near his head, almost like someone took white out and made a nickel size spot near his eye.
In complete shock, I look at the others, and everyone is fine...except my small blonde naso, who was on the ground.
I immediately ran to the computer, and not having come across anything obvious, I decided to do a freshwater dip. I brought the bucket to the tank, and both fish were already dead.
How can, two fish who seemed fine hours ago, both same species, be dead , basically at the same time.
My first guess was I had a friend and his kids over, and they were near the tank, and thought maybe they put something in there. But I couldn't find anything obvious, plus the other fish, including the idol, seem fine.
I started a thread a few days ago about my quarantine tank. Tonight something happened, and I am not quite sure if this is real life or a nightmare.
Make a long story short, I had an ich outbreak, and quarantined the fish I had, and added some to it to be quarantine 8 weeks while main tank goes fallow.
All was well and fine, then tonight happened. Its a 75 gallon tank, no rock, just pvc hiding places, with a 20 gallon long sump. The fish in 75 qt are: 4 inch Moorish idol, 3 inch sailfin, 3 inch purple tang, 1 inch xmas wrasse, 1 inch hippo, 2 damsels, and 2 small (nickel size) clowns. In the sump is an Achilles tang, by himself.
I am running cupramine, .5 level, and the fish have been in there for 4 weeks, no issues all eating.
Two weeks ago I picked up a blonde nase my lfs brought in for me, about 3 inches. He was doing okay, eating, mostly hiding.
Sunday, I got a regular naso, about 4 inches. No fighting, all eating, this particular naso was fat and a feisty eater.
I got home from work today, and fed the fish, all seem well. About 4 hours later I go back to shut off lights, and I notice the bigger naso, is barely swimming, and has a white blotch near his head, almost like someone took white out and made a nickel size spot near his eye.
In complete shock, I look at the others, and everyone is fine...except my small blonde naso, who was on the ground.
I immediately ran to the computer, and not having come across anything obvious, I decided to do a freshwater dip. I brought the bucket to the tank, and both fish were already dead.
How can, two fish who seemed fine hours ago, both same species, be dead , basically at the same time.
My first guess was I had a friend and his kids over, and they were near the tank, and thought maybe they put something in there. But I couldn't find anything obvious, plus the other fish, including the idol, seem fine.
