Well, just an update.
It's be a total nightmare around here today. My Eclipse which is cycled and not in any of these picutures got a new clown fish 2 days ago, then last night I was dreaming about the clownfish and started having nightmares so I awoke around 5 am and went to check on the clownfish.
He was on his side pale, and huffing and puffing like a dog thats just been run 5 miles behind a car.
I thought about what to do at that point, and finally decided to try to net it out of the eclipse and put it in the tank on the right side of the sofa, since that tank was starte a little over a week ago, with livesand, cured liverock, and and already cultured ceramic rings, and has been the home of the damsel that was pulled out of the eclipse for a couple days with no consequences.
When I went to net the clown fish, he was standing on his tail next to the intake of the eclipse tank and still huffing and puffing like nobodys business. I mean his little mouth and gills were moving a mile a minute and he was too weak to do anything, he didnt resist the net at all, and I scooped him up and hung the net in the nano tank for half an hour (figuring if he got better I would let him go in the tank, but if he died I wouldnt have to dismantle the tank to scoop him back out.
Well, half hour later and he was fighting the net and looked like he was really bored, so I let him loose in the tank.
Now the bad part about this was that it was done rather quickly and didnt want to disturb the rock to try to catch the damsel.
So they were both in the tank today, and the damsel had the clown hiding in a cave, but when I put out some brine shrimp the clown came out for a swim, and swam all over the tank, but refused to eat, he would swim up to a brine shrimp but not even try to eat it. But atleast he was swimming.
So we went off to a far away LFS to see what they were like, and when I returned home I decided that the damsel was just going to have to be taken out of the tank and moved to the other tank on the other side of the sofa.
But to catch him I had to remove 99% of the liverock, and of course this stirred up plenty of mess, but I finally caught him and put him in the other tank not wanting to put him back in the eclipse since I didnt know what went wrong with it.
So the nano that the clown is in, is put back together now in an almost perfect configuration of how it was prior, and cloudy and just yucky right now. But the clown isnt hyperventilating anymore. So thats a good sign right now.
Meanwhile I went down to my really LFS to ask his advise about the Eclipse nano and he said, check you water. I had already done that this mornign after I transfered the clown out, and it tested amonia 0, nitrites 0.3, nitrates 20. The LFS said that was adequate for a clown fish, and that most clown fish will even survive a cycle in a tank. But he urged me to do a 25 to 50% water change in the eclipse to try and dilute whatever was in there, since obviously there was something in there that was harmfull to the inhabitants. So I just got home again because I had to pickup a larger air pump for the Lees protein skimmer that I fit into the eclipse, and did a 5 gallon water change (thankfully I had a 5 gallon container of ocean water bought from the live fish store a couple days ago in the trunk of my car, so it was actually at 78f which is the same temp as my tank, so I poured it right in.
Meanwhile before we left for the long distance fish store this early afternoon I found my
peppermint shrimp dead in the eclipse tank. So I pulled it out, which just leaves a
green serpent star, a redfooted moon snail and about 4 or 5 margarita snails.
Im just hoping that the 5 gallon water change is enough to dilute whatever it is in this tank that has caused this.
I have another 5 gallon container of water in my trunk and may do another 5 or less water change again tommorrow.
But the star is still active and the snails ahve become active again after the water change today.
The moral of the story is:
1. Wear a pair of gloves (the kind that comes up to the elbows) to avoid getting any pollutants in your tank.
2. When something dies and the water parameters are okay, do a 25 to 50% water change to try and dilute whatever may have caused it.
I dont know what could have gotten into the tank, since setting up the tanks, I only spray cologne on my neck and no longer on my arms, I usually now rince my hands and arms in as hot of water as I can stand then dry them off with a clean terry towel, and Im the only one in the house that puts his hands in the tank.
Im sorry that my peppermint shrimp died, but happy that my clown seems like he will survive, and am now just hoping that my sea star and snails will make it through whatever this is.
I just now found this creature dead on the top of my tank floating around. Im not sure if its a brineshrimp or what, it doesnt really look like a brine shrimp to me, but you be the judge.
I would like to upgrade the lights in my Cube to two 24 watts or maybe even two 28 watt lights. 
