Emergency help all fish in tank died

[Bape47]

Hi guys i have a 55 gallon fish tank about 3 weeks ago,i was have 4 clowns fish 1 blue tang,1 yellow,1 power blue,1 yellow eyes tang,1 mandarine,4 chromis and few corals

first start i saw only blue tang keep scratching his body to the rock,i know it was ich but i thought its normal on blue tang so i didnt treat anything and hes still ok after 3 weeks,fish keep dying around last week,all fishes ate normal nothing happened and then power blue died yellow eyes tang died next few days pairs clown died and i thought they was being bullied of 2 other 2 clowns so 2 days ago mandarine died and then yesterday blue tang died and 1 clown died and today my last clown black phantom died the tank only left 1 yellow tang 3 chromis and fire shirmp,But yellow tang today her eyes already pop white on 1 side already,i saw ich on 1 side of 1 chromis also

i feel so bad and i am so lost about fishes keep dying my whole tank......

i test water everything still ok,so idk what happened,maybe because the ich killed them all?

what i should do now please help

thanks in advance

 

[Katrina71]

I'm so sorry...a couple of factors come to mind. That is a heavy stock list for a new tank. Yes, untreated illness can kill.

 

[living_tribunal]

Hi guys i have a 55 gallon fish tank about 3 weeks ago,i was have 4 clowns fish 1 blue tang,1 yellow,1 power blue,1 yellow eyes tang,1 mandarine,4 chromis and few corals

first start i saw only blue tang keep scratching his body to the rock,i know it was ich but i thought its normal on blue tang so i didnt treat anything and hes still ok after 3 weeks,fish keep dying around last week,all fishes ate normal nothing happened and then power blue died yellow eyes tang died next few days pairs clown died and i thought they was being bullied of 2 other 2 clowns so 2 days ago mandarine died and then yesterday blue tang died and 1 clown died and today my last clown black phantom died the tank only left 1 yellow tang 3 chromis and fire shirmp,But yellow tang today her eyes already pop white on 1 side already,i saw ich on 1 side of 1 chromis also

i feel so bad and i am so lost about fishes keep dying my whole tank......

i test water everything still ok,so idk what happened,maybe because the ich killed them all?

what i should do now please help

thanks in advance

Did you say you first started this tank 3 weeks ago? Or is that when the issues started occurring?

Also, what are your quarantine protocols?

 

[Bape47]

Did you say you first started this tank 3 weeks ago? Or is that when the issues started occurring?

Also, what are your quarantine protocols?

this tank start 3 weeks but with my old liverock

and fish dying after 2 weeks

 

[bstodds15]

55 Gallons is way to small for that many fish, let alone tangs in general.

Ich could be the main factor, definitely wouldn't help. Ammonia from overstock and fish dying would be my guess.

If you added all the fish at the same time, your system wouldn't be ready for that kind of bioload. What's your filtration system?

 

[living_tribunal]

this tank start 3 weeks but with my old liverock

and fish dying after 2 weeks

Did anything bad happen in the tank where the liverock came from?

 

[Bape47]

55 Gallons is way to small for that many fish, let alone tangs in general.

Ich could be the main factor, definitely wouldn't help. Ammonia from overstock and fish dying would be my guess.

If you added all the fish at the same time, your system wouldn't be ready for that kind of bioload. What's your filtration system?

i have reef octopus 150 skimmer,i added blue tang clowns mandarine at first time

 

[Bape47]

 

[Bape47]

Did anything bad happen in the tank where the liverock came from?

my old tank is ok only the blue tang scratch from that tank

 

[Katrina71]

It looks like the clowns were ill.

 

[living_tribunal]

I'm too new to even be considered a noob as it pertains to creating reef tanks. However, I think I can say with some certainty that adding 13 fish (including 3 tangs) simultaneously, in an uncycled tank that's too small, with no quarantine protocol is a recipe for disaster.

I could be wrong here but I would start a new tank by the book as the book was written by 1,000s who have failed before us. I'm learning myself :/

 

[Redfoxtang]

Looks like a mixture between velvet and brook. But im no expert! Im sorry for the casualties

 

[living_tribunal]

It looks like the clowns were ill.

There are definite ich spots on the first clown pic.

 

[Katrina71]

Looks like a mixture between velvet and brook. But im no expert! Im sorry for the casualties

Me too

 

[Bape47]

I'm not even a noob as it pertains to creating reef tanks. I think I can say with some certainty that adding 13 fish (including 3 tangs) simultaneously, in an uncycled tank that's too small, with no quarantine protocol is a recipe for disaster.

I could be wrong here but I would start a new tank by the book as the book was written by 1,000s who have failed before us.

i have only 1 yellow tang and fire shrimp 3 chromis in the tank with some corals now

but yellow tang 1 eye already cloud

 

[living_tribunal]

i have only 1 yellow tang and fire shrimp 3 chromis in the tank with some corals now

but yellow tang 1 eye already cloud

Did you add new fish to the tank after all of those fish died?

 

[Bape47]

Did you add new fish to the tank after all of those fish died?

no i didnt add any new fish,they just dying everyday now

 

[Rscott]

There are definite ich spots on the first clown pic.

What are you looking at that shows ich?
I would like to learn for my own knowledge
Sorry about your tank

 

[Bape47]

What are you looking at that shows ich?
I would like to learn for my own knowledge
Sorry about your tank

im guessing its ich all white dot around his body

 

[mcdrichj]

Hello,

First, Is this tank only 3 weeks old? Did you QT the fish first? Do you have a sump?

A 55 gallon is pretty small for 1 Tang let alone 4 and you have a very heavy bio-load. You should add fish slowly so the tank can adjust and monitor them in a QT before hand to make sure you don't introduce anything into your tank. For the mandarine you need a very established tank with a booming pod population if you dont have this they will starve.

I know its very exciting to get new fish but patients is VERY important in this hobby.

At this point my recommendation is to try to get whats left of the fish (if any) into a QT tank and treat them with copper if they do have ich because you have corals or inverts in your display you cant use copper. After you take the fish out or they die whichever happens first you should leave your tank fishless for 1-3 months to eradicate anything that's making them sick. After about 1-2 months of being fishless set up a QT and get 1 or 2 fish and observe them for a month. If the fish is healthy it will be ready to go into your display tank. If you proper quarantine procedure you could avoid some of this but you did also over stock your tank.

If you use copper in a QT MAKE SURE that you DO NOT use any equipment that has been in copper water in you display system.