Got home from work today to find my coral beauty and lawn mower Benny dead. Checked my water yesterday and all was good. After pulling the fish out I checked again and my ammonia was around .50 from 0 yesterday. Doing a water change now and wanted to know what you guys and gals think might be going on? Thanks for your help.
Thats very wierd because your parimeters are not too bad. This happen to me a few days ago with a mimic tang and 1 black clown. By any chance do you have anything aggressive in the tank that maybe harrased and stress the fish out to death? Or maybe got caught in a powerhead?
I have a reef octopus skimmer and a 75 hangon back filter with the bio grid removed. Also there is a 4 lamp t5ho.
Pair of snowflake clowns juvinals
Wrasse can't rember what one he is
Tomimi tang
Lots of coral sps,lps and a clam
Every thing else in the tank looks great. I just don't get it they both ate last night too.
Hoeven wrasse, I know the hob is not the best option that is why I took the bio grid out. Never had any nitrate problems. I do aerate the water with an air pump and the skimmer adds too from what I understand. I only feed mixed shrimp once a day with some marine flake as well.
I would say that the lawn mower blenny died for whatever the reason, wether it was just old age or an ill ect and was in there for a few hours which caused the ammonia rise and killed the coral beauty as theyre rather sensitive fish? Would be my suggestion i would say you done nothing wrong at all just natural causes.
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