Marine fish dying

[sballog96]

Hey there everyone I’m fairly new to salt water aquariums just an fyi. Roughly three weeks ago I purchased 2 clown fish. A week later a royal gramma who passed in two days. Not sure the cause of death, I went with a fish that’s hardier which ended up being a Talbot Damsel. Two days later, it passed. My question is, why do other fish keep dying but not the clowns??

 

[A Young Reefer]

Clowns are hardy, the question that should be asked is why are my other fish dying in the first place.
if you can give us more info like; age of tank, parameters even images would help.

 

[frizzayyyyreef]

Hey there everyone I’m fairly new to salt water aquariums just an fyi. Roughly three weeks ago I purchased 2 clown fish. A week later a royal gramma who passed in two days. Not sure the cause of death, I went with a fish that’s hardier which ended up being a Talbot Damsel. Two days later, it passed. My question is, why do other fish keep dying but not the clowns??

Clowns can live in toilet water that’s why usually so can damsels a royal gramma will not survive in a new tank imo I wouldn’t even risk imo stick to the clowns for now until your tank matures alil they can survive with bad parameters usually

 

[Sharkbait19]

Agreed, too add, knowing how the fish acted/looked before dying and how big the tank is helps a lot.
Clowns are tough, but so are royal gramma and Talbots damsel. Without quarantine you are playing a gamble for which fish do and don’t get disease, which I’d guess is the culprit, and it would be a matter of time before it gets the clowns.

 

[Bucs20fan]

+1 to parameters. Shot in the dark, sounds like ammonia.

 

[Nemo&Friends]

They may have been sick when you bought them, or you did not acclimate them slow enough. I would help if we knew if the 2 dead fish had similar symptoms, or if they acted weird. Did they eat? did they hide? did the clowns attack them? Many possibilities are there.

 

[frizzayyyyreef]

+1 to parameters. Shot in the dark, sounds like ammonia.

Agree Sounds like very high ammonia to kill them that fast

 

[Bucs20fan]

Damsels are hard to kill as well, Something that kills that fast either is a water quality issue or a serious illness such as brook or velvet, but in most cases those two would have gotten the clowns as well.

 

[Bucs20fan]

If your ammonia is high, even the best acclimation practices would be death sentence.

 

[frizzayyyyreef]

Crazy I used nutri pre mixed Water added clowns that day they’re still with me a year later most people told me on here they wouldn’t last a week

 

[A Young Reefer]

Crazy I used nutri pre mixed Water added clowns that day they’re still with me a year later most people told me on here they wouldn’t last a week

healthy clown specimens will survive anything, unless if its velvet or brook in my experience.

 

[SlugSnorter]

Hey there everyone I’m fairly new to salt water aquariums just an fyi. Roughly three weeks ago I purchased 2 clown fish. A week later a royal gramma who passed in two days. Not sure the cause of death, I went with a fish that’s hardier which ended up being a Talbot Damsel. Two days later, it passed. My question is, why do other fish keep dying but not the clowns??

tank age, parameters?