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Adding blue devil damsel.to dt. When they're stressed, they turn to dark gray or dark blue.
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Tossed a rescue damsel into the qt as other fish and the second day the swallow tail died. That damsel became a fancy meal for an eel.

A week later the pbt killed the gem tang.

Sold one bristletooth tang
Traded the blue tang for equipments

Today during maintenance the red head colon wrasse jumped out. Within 1 minute found him and dropped back into the tank. Now he's MIA.

Greenish yellow algae developed on the sand bed. Vacuumed them...2 days later they're back. What could it be?
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The pbt was taken from dt to qt for 6-7 weeks and look healthy eats everything. When I placed him back to dt, he acted irradically. Caught HLLE and ich the next day. Placed back to qt and 2 days later it died. It also infected the dt. Caught the pt and yellow belly tang. Placed them in qt. Ybt died the next day. PT is doing OK

Yesterday, found the white tail bristle tooth got tucked into an mp40.

Only remaining is yellow tang in dt. No sign of illness.
 
Changed UV bulb on 7/4/24.
7/7 added a bottle of purple helix to hopefully grow coralline to fight the brown greenish yellow algae on living on sand surface.
 
I think a fish went rogue. Added a pair of black snowflake clown about 2-3 months ago. An anthias died 2 days ago. Dont see any trace of ich. What could it be?

Woke up to this. They look beatened. Dont see any aggression.

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Sorry to see. Most likely internal parasites. Were they eating normal? With your recent 12 fishes dying I think you should reevaluate your QT process and the way you are introducing fishes to your display tank to reduce aggression.

What was the RODI at .07 mean?
Do you use an acclimation box?
Do you QT with anything else besides copper?

If you really plan on QT everything and I mean everything (fish, corals, inverts etc.) maybe catch out all your fishes and go fallow on your display tank as a reset.
 
SupraSaltyReefer said:
Sorry to see. Most likely internal parasites. Were they eating normal? With your recent 12 fishes dying I think you should reevaluate your QT process and the way you are introducing fishes to your display tank to reduce aggression.

What was the RODI at .07 mean?
Do you use an acclimation box?
Do you QT with anything else besides copper?

If you really plan on QT everything and I mean everything (fish, corals, inverts etc.) maybe catch out all your fishes and go fallow on your display tank as a reset.
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Maybe if enough of us ask about the RODI we will get an answer lol
 
SupraSaltyReefer said:
Sorry to see. Most likely internal parasites. Were they eating normal? With your recent 12 fishes dying I think you should reevaluate your QT process and the way you are introducing fishes to your display tank to reduce aggression.

What was the RODI at .07 mean?
Do you use an acclimation box?
Do you QT with anything else besides copper?

If you really plan on QT everything and I mean everything (fish, corals, inverts etc.) maybe catch out all your fishes and go fallow on your display tank as a reset.
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The pbt was in dt for 7 months or so. It shows sign of ich so I placed it in qt for a month. It was fine. Put back into dt, got ich again. Put back to qt for 6-7 weeks. Copper and hpo. It was fine so Put back to dt. Next day show sign of ich. Took it to hospital tank (no copper no hypo) died next day.

It infected other tangs.

However other fish died due to harassment. They look beat up.

Today removed yellow tang and checker warsse (no sign of damage fin? into 75g. Only see white spots. No copper yet.

Caught the labouse wrasse and watanabe angel. They look beat up. Put them in sump.

Caught one bastid black snowflake (healthy) trying to catch the other. I think these two are the bullies or at least one of them. Because when I got them, owner had a divider inside tank to protect the wyoming clown.
 
So what’s your plan going forward? I think the most sensible approach might be to go fishless for 65 days or whatever the suggested timeframe is to allow the diseases to die. You can bump temps up to 79or80 to speed the process.

This would allow you to sort of reset, choose the fish that mean the most to you, and add them in an order which will give you the best odds to avoid aggression.

I know it would be sad to see a fish less tank for 2 months. It would also only be effective if you commit to adding quarantined fish only from then on.
 
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