mysterious fish death

  1. P

    Ammonia checker madness

    I am going crazy! I’m losing fish, I suspect ammonia, but I can’t 100% confirm it. I started up a brand new tank that I wanted to use as observation post-quarantine for fish I was treating in copper. It’s a 55 gallon tank that I used brand new saltwater and cycled with ammonia chloride and...
  2. amyxagl

    EMERGENCY acute genocide

    yes another post about fish death, but im a bit lost. All my fish with the exception of a tomini tang died in a span of 12 hours. All my numbers look fine. i had a power outage for 8 mins while i was at work during lunch. came home everyone was dead or dying. 4 chromis 2 clowns blue hippo tang...
  3. F

    Cherub Pygmy Angel Sudden Death

    Hey all, I'm absolutely devastated. Went to check on my tanks before going to bed last night, only to find the Cherub Pygmy Angel taking his last breaths. I'm at a loss for what happened as only a couple hours earlier he was swimming about as normal with no signs of distress ect. Please let me...
  4. KateAtkins

    Two weird and terrible fish deaths. Help!

    I have had two large-ish fish die in a week. Both in weird ways. Cleaner wrasse I found curled up in a corner gasping. When I went to fish him out he tried to swim but couldn’t. He had a weird puff of flesh at the join on his fin and it wasn’t working at all. He’d been in the tank since the...
  5. H

    Mysterious death of Tailspot

    Lost my first fish yesterday, absolutely gutted as my little tailspot was a real character and the tank feels much quieter without him. Looking for any possible advice on why he might’ve died? The tank mates were a clown and a hectors goby, all of which he would regularly swim with and get on...
  6. L

    Frozen food

    Would like people's thoughts on this. I have been keeping a mixed reef tank for years now, and have always fed my fish with mainly frozen foods! Last night I fed them with frozen krill, and to my surprise a white feather was introduced into my tank via the frozen krill. The very next day my...
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