Too aggressive? Clown fish dying

Jp_esp

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Trying to figure out what's happening with my clown fish, they keep dying!
Seems to me my other fish are being aggressive and stressing my clowns out.
They seem to be doing ok for the first few days eating and swimming around, after that they sit in a corner and not eating.
90 gallon rr
100 lr
100ls
78 temp
all levels 0 (nitrate, nitrite)
Gyre 130 flow
2 chromis
1 fire fish
1 diamond goby
1 black blenny
1 green clown fish
1 Melanarus Wrasse (male)
 
only culprit in there is maybe the wrasse

are you getting them all from the same store/vendor?
 
Pre-set your qt salinity to the salinity of the lfs or seller. Ask them. Put the fish across with NO acclimation, because it's all about salinity. Have a refractometer to check it. Check it once, twice, and if within .001 of same, put the fish straight into qt.

Why? Because fish excrete ammonium and co2. When bag opens, co2 flies out, ph changes, causing ammonium to convert to ammonia. Fish dies in 3 days from kidney damage. Not as critically locally, recently bagged fish, but definitely in any mail order.

As a note, clown gobies are fairly sensitive, and do prefer corals to hide in.
 
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Pre-set your qt salinity to the salinity of the lfs or seller. Ask them. Put the fish across with NO acclimation, because it's all about salinity. Have a refractometer to check it. Check it once, twice, and if within .001 of same, put the fish straight into qt.

Why? Because fish excrete ammonium and co2. When bag opens, co2 flies out, ph changes, causing ammonium to convert to ammonia. Fish dies in 3 days from kidney damage. Not as critically locally, recently bagged fish, but definitely in any mail order.

As a note, clown gobies are fairly sensitive, and do prefer corals to hide in.

Wow, that's something I didn't know, as they say something new every day. Also Clown gobie is doing well and been in the tank around 4 months. Really shy, do have coral and and anemone but no host yet.
 
It might be the stores using the same vendors.... Might just be a bad batch of clowns.

Depending on where you live see if any established clowns are for sale... Cl, local reef club, etc
 
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