Fish Died in Rock

[pvulgamo]

I’m pretty sure my purple dottyback died in the cave it made its home. I can’t get to it with any tools, should I just monitor ammonia very closely and do more water changes? This is a 20 gallon.
Thanks

 

[moz71]

How long has tank been running? Do you have a clean up crew? Hermits etc? Just let it go. If established tank will have no long term affect. .

 

[pvulgamo]

How long has tank been running? Do you have a clean up crew? Hermits etc? Just let it go. If established tank will have no long term affect. .

Ok great, tank has been up just shy of a year, I do have hermits. Thank you.

 

[brandon429]

Agreed. All post cycle reef tanks have enough surface area it won’t hurt at all it will degrade and move onward

 

[cmoore806]

Id just hold on feeding for a few days, maybe it would come out.

 

[brandon429]

We need to cross a needed bridge here.

when api ammonia is ran, or red sea and shows 6 ppm death spike, but your tank looks fine, smells fine, all other animals fine, corals open, water clear, then welcome to heinous mis testing that google shows for ten thousand pages.


is there any chance I can get you to sign a rtr affidavit saying you will not run any sort of ammonia test? heh

we are trying to prevent cycling anarchy here. If you’ll eval the tank going off looks, water smell, tank inhabitants not deceased, feeding normally, everyone happy, water clarity, then total cycling meltdown can be prevented.

I just got back off an eight page false ammonia bender, its exhausting. Even if you run the test, and the fish comes out tomorrow, we can’t roll another several pages on false ammonia we just can’t, sign the affidavit