Reef Tank w/ Fish Problems

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Allvis

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Ok, basically I have a 65 gallon tank with ~12 pounds of Fiji Live Rock which is just exploding with little critters. My problem comes in the form of Fish. I "used" to have 3 Maroon Clowns in the tank, a Green Spot Mandarin, and an assortment of Damsels ( the starter fish ).

The tank has been set up for 3 months, live rock in them for 3 weeks, the clown fish in it for a little over a month. Nothing has changed since the last 3 weeks except adding a couple scarlet crabs.

Basically, one by one my maroon clowns died ( 3 in total ). They didnt die of any disease I can tell. They were kept in a sick tank for a month with a copper treatment in that tank before being added to the main tank. It doesn't necessarily bother me ( that much ) that they died, as I kind of expected it. What bothers me is my clowns went from appearing to being perfectly fine to dead in ~30 minutes, all three of them.

I have checked out pH, nitrate, nitrite, and ammonia levels and all checked out good.

If anyone has any indication or experience with any reasons why this would happen, I would GREATLY appreciate it!
 
first off, im going to throw the fact out there that unless your mandarin is eating frozen foods, it will absolutly positivly die.
and i cant help with your moroons unless you describe their symptoms.
 
The maroons are very agressive towards their own kind, to the point of only keeping one if the clowns aren't as a mated pair relationship
 
The maroons are dead, he/she said that so don't try to help them.
as for the mandrin I have heard that thier the hardest to keep and that thier on the same care level as clowns, so you can't say the fish will die. any thing that involves live animals is a maybe. also if the mandrin doesn't eat frozen foods try feeding some newly hatched brine shrimp. put the shrimp behind the rocks after lights out so the other fish won't get the food before the mandrin.
 
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I have a mandarin in my 75 and he's just started to eat frozen, I put a glass in the bottom of the tank and use a turkey baster to get the food into it. They are really difficult fish and to be honest much much harder to care for than a pair of clowns. With 12 pounds of live rock you don't nearly have enough to sustain it, and to be honest not really enough for that size of tank, even with frozen or live brine, it still needs a decent amount of pods in it's diet.

Bottom line, without a decent amount of live rocks and a fuge to get the pods it requires, chances are it will die.
 
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