Fish Death issues

[tony_caliente]

I had 2 true percs that over the course of 30 to 45 days harassed the heck out of a coral beauty and an ebili(?) on 2 separate occasions. Interestingy, I NEVER saw them harrass the angels (in fact the angels appear to be dominant) and left them alone while eating. I would rearrange the corals etc, but eventually the angels would stop eating and die looking perfectly healthy. Eventually, I gave one ofthe percs to a LFS and I was fine....then I got Ich 4 month later and it "took care of" the other perc and 3 other fish. Ahhhh.....the circle of life -- STINKS LOL. Don't know if that's your situation, but no more percs for me and I have kept them for years in underpopulated tanks.....maybe it's all the violence on TV, video games and rap, music LOL.

 

[fishgardener]

I had several fish turn up badly cut and bleeding and couldn't figure out why. I never saw anyone picking on anything. Then one night I turned the lights on very late at night and there was this giant crab in my tank! He was about 1.5 inches wide. I don't know how he could have been in there without me knowing about him. I hadn't added any rock or coral to the tank in a long while. He had to have hitched a ride in on some live rock or coral and been in there growing. I didn't think something that big could hide so well for so long. We caught him ( had to tear up the rock and coral to do so) and I gave him to Bobz for his refugium. It turned out the crab was from Asia and rare but very definitally carnivorus and not display tank friendly.
Check late at night and see if you have a hitch hiker.
I hope the tank is doing well and the box fish didn't do any damage.
Sheryle

 

[jaydm93teg]

Well I dont know if this has anything to do with anything but my 2 clowns were the first 2 fish in the tank,
both clowns ended up having brookynella...maybe that has somethign to do with the issues I have been having? I dont know but all coral and inverts still look perfectly happy