My fish are dead

[40g Nano]

6-8 mos

 

[brandon429]

six to eight months is how long fish typically live maximum when no disease preps are in place

In our hobby we all struggle to get these tanks ready for fish while preventing disease, there are only a few ways currently accepted that work, read this forum and select the option you want to try:

Fish Disease Treatment and Diagnosis

A forum for discussing treatment and diagnosing saltwater reef fish.

www.reef2reef.com

next round use a clownfish and a goby, mainly starter corals and you can have a better 2nd round

 

[Reefer1978]

What does that mean exactly

I think what Brandon is trying to say is leave the tank alone, add coral, feed coral (keep it without fish for 90 days to eradicate Ich if that's what you had). Quarantine your fish next time, treat them with meds before you add them to the tank.

 

[4tanks]

I doubt very much you'd have needed to be dosing with that amount of coral after 6 months

 

[Reefer1978]

Also just an observation, but you are not providing a lot of info, so it's not easy to help and you will get a lot of passive aggressive comments. For example - you were asked for the temp (prolonged high temp could kill fish), and you responded with "I don't run a heater it's hot in Florida".

 

[40g Nano]

I dose 2 ml daily to keep it stable at 420ppm
I use a Red Sea test kit

 

[40g Nano]

Temp is 74 F

 

[Reefer1978]

Have you tried not dosing? I don't see much coral, there shouldn't be any consumption.

 

[NJDragonet]

I dose 2 ml daily to keep it stable at 420ppm
I use a Red Sea test kit

I am not going to like the other comments there is a simple and very easy way to solve this we just need info on everything

 

[40g Nano]

I have a bunch of hermits I thought those would take up calcium
If I don’t dose ca goes down a lot like to 320

 

[Reefer1978]

I have a bunch of hermits I thought those would take up calcium
If I don’t dose ca goes down a lot like to 320

Hermits do not, they don't build shells, they steal them.

 

[NJDragonet]

How long where the fish in the tank? how big where they? how is everything else in the tank looking? more pictures?

 

[NJDragonet]

Hermits do not, they don't build shells, they steal them.

agreed

 

[40g Nano]

Clownfish were in there from the beginning. I got a royal gramma but it was aggressive and killed my clown. I got rid of that and got another clownfish a few months ago. I got the tang two weeks ago. Clowns are very small and tang was small too. Everything else is looking good.

 

[Reefer1978]

Clownfish were in there from the beginning. I got a royal gramma but it was aggressive and killed my clown. I got rid of that and got another clownfish a few months ago. I got the tang two weeks ago. Clowns are very small and tang was small too. Everything else is looking good.

Any signs of sickness on the fish? Any white spots? Ich / Velvet could have taken then all out quickly in a new-ish tank.

 

[ReeferWarrant]

@Reefer1978, they do use calcium but not to an extent it would drop the tank 100 ppm. Their exoskeleton molts need it, but also like you said steal shells.

 

[40g Nano]

Small refugium in back with some chaeto

 

[40g Nano]

No signs of disease.

 

[NJDragonet]

Clownfish were in there from the beginning. I got a royal gramma but it was aggressive and killed my clown. I got rid of that and got another clownfish a few months ago. I got the tang two weeks ago. Clowns are very small and tang was small too. Everything else is looking good.

did they have white strings as poop? Where they white or red spots on them?

 

[NJDragonet]

No signs of disease.

If it was a disease it had to be internal