2 Firefish DEAD

oceanists

oceanists

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Hey people how are we all doing to day ..... as you all know im not a beginer .... but i have a problem , I bought 2 firefish on saturday in good health .... and this morning they are dead. I have a yellow tang and a maroon clown and a RBTA and GE Zoos in my system ............ My levels are as follows
Ph 8.1
Amm 0
ites 0
ates 20
SG 1.024
temp 76.7 (fluctuates about a degree from morning to night )
Cal 460
I just dont know why these fish died , everything is thriving in my system my maroon is getting fat and my tang healed up from when i bought him at the LFS where he was severely beaten by a trigger i have had the maroon 4 months and the tang for 5 months , there were no signs of aggresivness , except when i tried getting one of the firefish out it slipped out of my grasp and my maroon snagged it and brought it to the anemone which tried to eat it untill i took it away .... should i have let it eat it , it was bigger than its mouth thats why i took it away .......... anyway im getting really bummed because it seems like i cant get anything else to survive in my tankl unless it is a coral ...... any explanation ???
 
fishmamma

fishmamma

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Sorry you lost these fish and others...here are some thoughts off the top of my head:
~How long were these fish at LFS?
~What was your acclimation procedure?
~Could the anemone have stung them?
~Are they being harrased by other tank memebers during the night? (this does sometimes happen, I have woken up to badly beaten fish).
~Are all of the fish that die from same LFS?
 
fadec40

fadec40

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I have a firefish, 2 percs, 1 bicolor pseudo. The first week I got the firefish, he was harrased. His trademark dorsal fin has been bitten down to a stub. The other fish no longer bother him. Maybe they just didn't like that fin.
 
oceanists

oceanists

Active Member
Originally Posted by fishmamma
Sorry you lost these fish and others...here are some thoughts off the top of my head:
~How long were these fish at LFS?
~What was your acclimation procedure?
~Could the anemone have stung them?
~Are they being harrased by other tank memebers during the night? (this does sometimes happen, I have woken up to badly beaten fish).
~Are all of the fish that die from same LFS?

fishmamma sorry , i knew i forgot to mention something , i drip acclimate all of my fish for 2 hours , i highly doubt the RBTA had stung them they were on the otherside of the tank , however i am thinking maybe there was some agressivness during the night.... i was going to look over the firefish to look for any bite marks but my maroon got aholed of it and brought it to the anemone when i was taking it out so anything i saw i assumed that had happened when the clown raped it from me ...........
I think i am just going to concentrate on corals for while
Just incase i get any other dead fish .... can i give those toi myRBTA or is that frowned upon ...
 
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