mal
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What a bummer morning! Came home this morning after work, and was doing my maint. before lights on. I saw my tank raised hippo dead, my flame hawk, and dragonette. I was really bummed. Then I calmed a bit and tested water. ammo - 0 / nitrite - 0 / nitrate - 5-10 / Ca - 490-ish / Alk - 3.5meq. / temp - 81 / specific grav. - 1.025. About average for my tank.
Funny thing is my maroon clown, betta and firefish are fine. All inverts are fine, snails, urchin, BTA and corals.
The only thing I can think of is this.
The last few days I have been wathing my colt battle some RTN. Last night he was losing. I pulled him out, and fragged off the infected parts, rinsed off the healthy parts in a bowl of tank water, then a bowl of tank water and tech-d, then rinsed it off in another fresh bowl of tank water. Then I put it back in. I have done this several times in the past. The only thing I can think is maybe the colt released some toxins in the tank after I put it back in, or some other pollutant got in.
Needless to say I did a HUGE emergency water change. I changed out about 50g this morning. I'm thinking about another in the morning again.
The thing about it is I would really expect the rest of the fish and everything else to be doing poorly. Not just a select few fish. Granted the tang and the dragonette are sensitive, but the hawk?? Man what a bummer!! The tang just turned 1 and was really growing well. Dragonette was almost a year, fat and happy. The hawk my wife got me for my B-day in Jan. My clown is more than a year, and my betta is almost 2.
Just needed to share.
Funny thing is my maroon clown, betta and firefish are fine. All inverts are fine, snails, urchin, BTA and corals.
The only thing I can think of is this.
The last few days I have been wathing my colt battle some RTN. Last night he was losing. I pulled him out, and fragged off the infected parts, rinsed off the healthy parts in a bowl of tank water, then a bowl of tank water and tech-d, then rinsed it off in another fresh bowl of tank water. Then I put it back in. I have done this several times in the past. The only thing I can think is maybe the colt released some toxins in the tank after I put it back in, or some other pollutant got in.
Needless to say I did a HUGE emergency water change. I changed out about 50g this morning. I'm thinking about another in the morning again.
The thing about it is I would really expect the rest of the fish and everything else to be doing poorly. Not just a select few fish. Granted the tang and the dragonette are sensitive, but the hawk?? Man what a bummer!! The tang just turned 1 and was really growing well. Dragonette was almost a year, fat and happy. The hawk my wife got me for my B-day in Jan. My clown is more than a year, and my betta is almost 2.
Just needed to share.
