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[aic007]

Hi,

wanted to get some opinions on what might have happened to $140 worth of fish. I changed my 55 gal fresh water to salt and after setting it up and stablizing it I added the following, Volitan Lion, dwarf lion, lunare wrasse, blue ribbon eel, coral beauty, and a sailfin tang. The tang and coral were from my 29gal sw tank. Everything was very healthy and eating heartily up until last week. I came home and found my wrasse and dwarf lion dead. I had put a small crayfish in the tank a day or 2 earlier figuring the eel, wrasse or lions would have made a meal of him and it seems that the cray killed the dwarf lion. Now the wrasse was dead right next to the lion so I think that he picked on the dead carcase and was poisoned by thier venom, is this possible? My coral also died a few days later. Everything else in the tank is doing fine, I watched the eel eat a 2" damsel whole in about 15 seconds and the volitan is a pig. I added a rectangulus trigger after checking the water and it is doing ok. Any ideas on what might have killed the wrasse and coral beauty? They looked to be untouched/unscarred when found belly up on the bottom of the tank.

Thanks,

aic007