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alright well its official something is lurking in my tank...i posted a thread a week or two maybe ago about constantly losing fish to powerheads...and of course everyone goes on a tangent about water quality...my quality as fine as everything is zero cept ates at ~5 and sg at .027 ....now nemo got sucked into a powerhead...the night before he was fine...and now i just lost two yup count em 1...2...fish...to powerheads u ask? no...i have koralias now...however i found my yellow tang stuck between to rocks hard as a rock like half in the sand on one side of my 55 and my hawkfish on the complete opposite side of the tank in the same exact situation...both were perfectly fine last night....how do i find w/e it is killin them...oh yea the reason i think its somethign like a mantis shrimp is cause my yellowtail wrasse who has been in my tank forever isnt dead...all my other swimmers are...for those who dont know yellowtails bury while they sleep..ie..not getting killed...now the fish that died last night look fine overall...not missing nething i mean dead but fine...plz plz plz help

and again dont even ask me water quality issues plz
 
If something was physically killing them, like a mantis shrimp, you're going to see marks on them and they're gonna munch on them.
 
i'm thinking more along the lines of disease. From my experience, my wrasses seem immune. My radiant wrasse survived the great tank disaster of 07. There are no signs of disease?
 
for both of them to die in the same day for no reason what so ever especially when water quality is fine?...on top of losing multiple fish over the past few months when they were all fine
 
Do you have a small red led light? After lights are out for about 20-30 minutes with the led light slowly check your tank from one end to the other. Nocturnal predators should start coming out then. If you do not find anything then wait about 2 hours and check again. Most invert predators hunt by claw or spear. The claw method will be easy to identify and the spear method is a little harder. Do you happen to have any toxic animals in the tank(ie anemones, sea apples, cucumbers ect) As they could be a possible problem. Do you have any large hermits, I have had 3 larger hermits team up and take out 3 fish in one night including a 5 inch Niger Trigger.
Have you or someone in your house been spraying household chemical in the same room as the tank. There are alot of normal cleaners that are major toxins in saltwater tanks.
Did this all begin after introducing a new fish that died shortly afterwards. As there are about a dozen internal and external paracites, plus a number of bacterial and virus that can go through multiple species of fish in just a few months.
I hope that this helps and Good Luck
Rich
 
tamableanimal said:
Do you have a small red led light? After lights are out for about 20-30 minutes with the led light slowly check your tank from one end to the other. Nocturnal predators should start coming out then. If you do not find anything then wait about 2 hours and check again. Most invert predators hunt by claw or spear. The claw method will be easy to identify and the spear method is a little harder. Do you happen to have any toxic animals in the tank(ie anemones, sea apples, cucumbers ect) As they could be a possible problem. Do you have any large hermits, I have had 3 larger hermits team up and take out 3 fish in one night including a 5 inch Niger Trigger.
Have you or someone in your house been spraying household chemical in the same room as the tank. There are alot of normal cleaners that are major toxins in saltwater tanks.
Did this all begin after introducing a new fish that died shortly afterwards. As there are about a dozen internal and external paracites, plus a number of bacterial and virus that can go through multiple species of fish in just a few months.
I hope that this helps and Good Luck
Rich
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red light no..but imma try and get one...ive been meaning to do it for a while ne way....

and no crazy corals i only have mushrooms and the likes

only one tiny halloween hermit (freebie with a piece of rock :))

lol i live a dorm room..so maybe mold stench got em? lol

i added my snowflake eel but hes a baby...like 6ish inches ...if nething he will prolly get w/e is killing my fish (not that i have any as im down to one)
 
do you have a roommate? or let people in your dorm room? I'm pretty sure that in my college days, there wuold have been dozens that would have fed beer or any other concoction to fish on purpose or accident.

Ever have anything on your hand/arm/anything else that went into the fish tank?
 
(military dorm room...just me) and no im pretty good with it...i havent actually messed with the tank since the eel a few days ago...like i said hes tiny so there is no way its him plus this is an ongoing problem for a while now....i just dont understand how two completely different fish can die in the same day when yesterday/last night they were fine...like no problems swimming and eating... and no luck with rock wash im ready to ditch the whole hobby (if it wasnt for possibly getting a 125 soon)
 
Sorry to hear this is frustrating you to the point of thinking about ditching the hobby. I literally lost my entire stocking (of fish) in my 75g. I was upset, but as with anything else I've put a lot of work into, I took it as a learning experience.

I really don't think it would be a predator due to what I've already mentioned. I'm really thinking some sort of fast moving or invisible disease.
 
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