 Dying Fish With No Apparent Cause
AHHHHHRRRRGGGGGG!
Ok I vented, now to beg for help on my 55G reef.
I have (or should I say had) a yellow tang, clownfish, and a firefish in my reef tank. I noticed white spots on the tang so I removed ALL the fish and treated them in a QT for ich with CopperSafe. After about ten days I freshwater dipped the fish to make sure no copper was on them and released them back into the reef. Two days later I saw spots on my tang again that looked like an ich relapse. I put in a cleaner wrasse just to see if I could get away with letting him pick the spots off the tang without having to quarantine everybody again. The next morning the tang was dead, and the day after that (today) the cleaner wrasse was dead! It must be something in my tank. What the hell happened? Was it the ich or did I misdiagnose or what? BTW I put the clown back in the QT but I can't catch the firefish.
Notes: My nitrates are 0!!!! Tested with two separate kits. All of the corals are fine, are are the clams and the electric scallop. Only the fish are suffering.
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55g hexagon reef, 60 lbs. live rock, bubble coral, mushroom, green star, button polyps, blue gorgonian frag, 2 clams, sebae anemone, sebae clown, firefish, very small hippo, pinkbar goby, small horseshoe crab, snails, etc.
AquaC Remora skimmer, Emperor 400, a couple powerheads.
125g - FOWLR
Emperor Angel, purple tang, bicolor angel, five damsels, hawkfish
100 lbs. live rock, Tube anemone, 2 urchins, red knob sea star Skimmer, powerheads, the works
Really pathetic lighting tho | 
jb
