Clown fish dead

[Nick Rose]

Just found one of my clown fish dead. This particular one I’ve had since June 2019. Can a fish die randomly for no reason? It has not been picked on. The only thing that happened recently was I dosed FlatwormX and did a 75% water change. The reason I did a large water change was not only the Flatworm(I know you only need a 25% WC) but mainly for the past few months my corals have not been doing good so wanted to do a large WC just in case there was something in the water that I could test for. The main water parameters all matched the tanks water. The corals looked good and the fish looked happy. I just received a Seneye and had it hooked up and everything that it monitors has been stable.

 

[Zos4me]

Maybe the stress from too big of a change or the stuff for the flatworms was too much for it. Stress can be deadly

 

[MTBake]

Sorry about the loss

Fins look a bit torn up. Not sure if that's part of the issue or not.

#reefsquad, any ideas?

 

[Nick Rose]

Sorry about the loss

Fins look a bit torn up. Not sure if that's part of the issue or not.

#reefsquad, any ideas?

Thats how the fins normally look.

 

[Reef AquaCult]

When’s the last time you added anything “wet” into your tank? Fish, corals, invert, macroalgae?

 

[Nick Rose]

Last week I put in 6 bumblebee snails.

 

[ReeferWarrant]

I just did Flatworm Exit too and I think the toxins they released killed my emerald crab. Thats unfortunate though.

 

[Nick Rose]

I wouldn’t think it would be the flatworm toxins. I dosed waited the allotted time started the skimmer, carbon and did the large water change. This was done on Saturday afternoon. Everyone was happy afterwards or least they seemed fine. Yesterday was good and today except for the one dead clown fish everyone seems good.

 

[TheBackAndForth]

In people, anti-helminth drugs can be hell on livers or kidneys, depending on how they are metabolized. No clue whats in that treatment, but would lean towards the medication not being well metabolized by the little fish

 

[Mastiffsrule]

Hey nick, sorry about the loss,

as reefer mentioned it could be a toxicity issue. Any other fish affected? Did you run carbon and how longafter dosing before you did the water change?

edit, just saw your post when I posted mine

 

[Nick Rose]

Hey nick, sorry about the loss,

as reefer mentioned it could be a toxicity issue. Any other fish affected? Did you run carbon and how longafter dosing before you did the water change?

edit, just saw your post when I posted mine

I dosed and waited 15min. then started to siphon out any floating flatworms for 15min. Then I started the skimmer and carbon. I waited 30-40 min and did the 75% water change.

These were the flatworms I was going after. Seems like I will have to do another treatment because I just noticed some on the glass. After the fish death maybe I shouldn’t do anymore treatments.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

You followed the procedure from what I can remember. And since the death wasn’t instantaneous I may think the exit may not be the issue, or at least not all of it.

sorry if i missed it. Anything newly added. Can you list the other fish, tank size and age. Usual stuff just to be sure.

maybe @Peace River or @Billdogg or @mta_morrow are around tonight and have used the product

 

[Nick Rose]

The only new thing added was 6 bumblebee snails last week. It’s a 40 gallon tank but total volume is 60 gallons. It was paired with another clown and there is 3 yellow tailed chromis. The tank is close to 1.5 years old. It’s actually been running longer then that. It was a backup/emergency tank with rock, GSP, no fish and just a hang on filter. A year and half ago I updated the tank with overflow, sump, AI Vegas, added the fish and more coral.

I forget the actual name of the yellow tail chromis. The two big ones beat up the smaller one.