Gone...

[pco1988]

Today I came home to my tank...

Everything has died except for 4 clowns, 4 chromis, and 1 peppermint shrimp...

I can find most bodies except for the sailfin's, and the wrasse's...

Now I am left with a hard decission. Am I going to put everything back together or take the tank down and get off of the hobby for now? I have lost $3000 of fish and about $500 in inverts/coral.
RIP little buddies...

Philip...

 

[adam2817]

I know the feeling friend. B4 giving up altogether, why did they die?

 

[pco1988]

I have no idea... :notsure:
I came home to a milky white tank, thats all...

I have been adding coral for the past two days but slowly a piece at time, nothing that would have make this happen...

By the way every coral is alive and well except a couple and the RBTA is fine...

But every thing else is gone...

Philip...

 

[jmick]

I can only assume that you kept adding new fish when you had fish die to lose $3000 in livestock and if not, you either have a huge tank or a really over crowded tank. Would like to hear more about you system…have had my tank up for 5+ years and have only lost 1 fish.

 

[pclown]

I am sorry for your loss. That is one of my worse nightmares
What size tank did you have? What all did you have in it?

 

[pco1988]

It was a 120gal...
It wasn't crowded just really rare fish...
Things like Onyx Percula, and a Solomons Island Flame Wrasse...
Here is my little buddy I have had since the tank was set up...

And a wrasse that was fun to watch chase all the chromis around and that is not replace able...

I addded two fish in the last 6 monthes which was a scooter blenny and a midas blenny...
Philip...

 

[fishy7]

Sorry for your loss.

I am very curious what happened....
What are your water readings?

 

[pco1988]

Salinity...1.025
Ammonia...0.0
Nitrite....0.0
Nitrate...0.10
Calcium...470
Alk...???
Phosphate...0.1
What else???
Philip...

 

[fishy7]

what corals have you been adding over the past 2 days?

 

[greggti]

What about temperature, or stray voltage,maybe something released from one fish dying did in the rest? did ya have a cowfish? Sorry for your loss, but don't give up. Just put it back together slowly, a fish, or coral every 3 months or so.

 

[crox]

Your water parameters are fine. Very strange. Did you say that the water is kind of cloudy?

 

[maryd]

So sorry for your loss. That's really depressing. Hopefully you will find out what happened and can try again. I know there's a lot of expense involved in this hobby but keep going.

 

[greggti]

And definately don't add anymore livestock till you pinpoint the problem. Could a foreign substance have entered the tank? There are way too many things that a test kit won't tell you. And you also have survivors in there, don't give up, you owe it to them to figure this out.

 

[dogstar]

Cant say this is why but maybe the anemone released gametes ( eggs or sperm ) results would be simular IMO. Did you have a sea cuke maybe ??

 

[fishman72b]

I know how you feel i had this priblem also. I camhome after my brother had a party, to find my tank milky white with almost all my livestock dead. This was a resuls of 4 EXTESY being put into my tank. Was a sad situaton. I am also very curiopus to what happened to your tank.