Clown Fish dead :C

[BlackwaterMerk]

Crap... Woke up today and BOTH of my oscars clowns are on the bottom of my tank dead. Ive fead them every day once. Sometimes twice. I do weekly waterchanges, and if I ever cant do a weekly waterchange I do a bi weekly Huge waterchange. They have white coloring on them where it was black. They looked perfect yesterday. My goby and dragonet are doing fine.

[HD Fatboy®]

Originally Posted by BlackwaterMerk

Crap... Woke up today and BOTH of my oscars clowns are on the bottom of my tank dead. Ive fead them every day once. Sometimes twice. I do weekly waterchanges, and if I ever cant do a weekly waterchange I do a bi weekly Huge waterchange. They have white coloring on them where it was black. They looked perfect yesterday. My goby and dragonet are doing fine.

Water parameters?

[BlackwaterMerk]

Ill post soon, I found this giant worm beneith a rock where one of the clowns were. I cant do water tests right now becuase Im only home for an hour then I have to go back to work

[Loverotties]

Sorry for your losses!

[Mr.Peanut]

They are going to lose pigment once they die. Is it a white coating? If so, that may be Brooklynella Disease. Its usually a fast killer.

[jenglish]

The worm is a bristleworm. It is unlikely to be the killer and more than likely is just doing his job of cleaning up the tank. You probably have plenty of them though so if you will sleep better it probably won't hurt to lose this one . THere are rare predatory ones but usually they eat corals and such.

[BlackwaterMerk]

I just found it wierd that 1. The clown was found in a "cave" type part of my rockwork that my sandsifting goby burrowed, since the clown has never went near there before. 2. That the worm was found right next to the corpse but this could have been because the fish was already dead and the worm was going to eat it. Also my goby is now on the other side of the tank in a new burrow when he rlly stuck to the other burrow a mojority of the time. The only new things done was the addition of a draganet "sorry for spelling" I added him about 3 days ago. But also like I said they were both swimming and eating healthy yesterday, and today both clowns are dead. its sooo wierd.

[AquaMan91]

before they died did you notice any panting, were they staying in one particular area..if so as Mr.Peanut said brooklynella disease(other wise known as clownfish disease)

[BlackwaterMerk]

they were staying closer to the bottom... they always liked staying high in the tank.