wsoldier
Active Member
Hey guys, 5 months into my first tank so please bare with me.
Here's my timeline for fish:
- 2 juvenile clowns after cycle (month 2)
- 1 bicolor blenny at (month 3)
- flame angel and coral beauty (month 4)
7 days after adding the dwarf angels, the blenny was looking pale/scratching himself on rocks...died a few days later after bouncing between looking healthy/pale. Didn't see any visible skin anomalies that I noticed (could have missed something).
The very next day, the flame angel was showing poor color and hiding under the rocks. That worried me but for 5 straight days after he was back to his normal color and behavior before biting the dust exactly one week from the blenny's death.
The very next morning after I pulled the flame out, both of my clowns were dead (one went missing and the other was dead on the sand bed). I didn't look close enough (he was also pretty small) but again didn't see anything obviously bad on his skin.
At the time of all this I thought the fish died because my ALK dipped too low (5.34dKH), so I was trying to gradually get it up to the 8-9 dKH range with kalk. It took a little while to stabilize and thought maybe that stressed it out, but Randy seemed to think my params were reasonable.
Anyway, from the stickies it seems like this might either be ich or velvet, but I'm really not sure since the symptoms seem to overlap with some and not visible at all with the others. Meanwhile, it's been 2.5 weeks since the last death and my coral beauty (last remaining fish) is still alive. He's showing signs of scratching but I'm having a hard time seeing any specs/salt-like dots on his body. My inverts (skunk cleaner shrimp, bristle star, 4 trochus snails, tuxedo urchin, nem) are all alive and well.
Any thoughts are welcome, and suggestions for course of action. Thanks for reading!
Here's my timeline for fish:
- 2 juvenile clowns after cycle (month 2)
- 1 bicolor blenny at (month 3)
- flame angel and coral beauty (month 4)
7 days after adding the dwarf angels, the blenny was looking pale/scratching himself on rocks...died a few days later after bouncing between looking healthy/pale. Didn't see any visible skin anomalies that I noticed (could have missed something).
The very next day, the flame angel was showing poor color and hiding under the rocks. That worried me but for 5 straight days after he was back to his normal color and behavior before biting the dust exactly one week from the blenny's death.
The very next morning after I pulled the flame out, both of my clowns were dead (one went missing and the other was dead on the sand bed). I didn't look close enough (he was also pretty small) but again didn't see anything obviously bad on his skin.
At the time of all this I thought the fish died because my ALK dipped too low (5.34dKH), so I was trying to gradually get it up to the 8-9 dKH range with kalk. It took a little while to stabilize and thought maybe that stressed it out, but Randy seemed to think my params were reasonable.
Anyway, from the stickies it seems like this might either be ich or velvet, but I'm really not sure since the symptoms seem to overlap with some and not visible at all with the others. Meanwhile, it's been 2.5 weeks since the last death and my coral beauty (last remaining fish) is still alive. He's showing signs of scratching but I'm having a hard time seeing any specs/salt-like dots on his body. My inverts (skunk cleaner shrimp, bristle star, 4 trochus snails, tuxedo urchin, nem) are all alive and well.
Any thoughts are welcome, and suggestions for course of action. Thanks for reading!
