My tank has something against pretty fish

[Greatdane]

When i started my epic journey of the fish tank when I got the first pretty fish after about a month and a half of cycleing we were don’t with cycleing so we decided to get a coral beauty we had this fish for a couple months about 3 but then it turned wobbly and died and all of our parameters were fine except that the clown had got some sort of fungus but we cleared it up but we think that the coral beauty had got it to but we didn’t see it the next day we got a sail fin tang and it was very happy until about 3 months the same time as the coral beauty it had got off balanced and died but we did t see anything on the fish it just died we are not sure why and are afraid to get another angel fish for it may die in three months I’d like to know why this is happening. We have had our clowns for the entire time of the tank they were the first thing we put in our tank and we have 4 damsels that are still alive after 4 months so... what is happening here?

 

[Greatdane]

 

[Fishy212]

How big is your tank? From the picture it looks way too small for a tang, What are your parameters?

 

[Jon Fishman]

Tank too small, and also clowns are much more sturdy than those other fish. That probably explains it in a fairly simple form. Stress/etc too much for the CB and Tang


Also, this tends to be a hobby where “fine” isn’t really a useful measurement of anything. Even “what kind of substrate do you have?”. A: “Fine sand” doesn’t even cut it. Small variables make big differences.

I don’t test at all, but if corals don’t grow, fish die, algae can’t be controlled, etc..... Water Parameters in addition to other things will need to be divulged in order for people to provide advice.

Again, a sail-fin may very well stress and die in that size tank given perfect conditions otherwise,.

 

[Greatdane]

My tank is 32 gal when this happens we got our water sample and sent to our Lfs and they said it was good ammonia was 0 phosphates 0 there was no stress we had assumed they died of an infection but we could see any signs of it

 

[Greatdane]

But that’s the thing they were keeping them in smaller tanks than we had but maybe that was the issue it wasn’t a big tang or CB maybe about an inch and a half

 

[Greatdane]

Anyway thank you for your input I appreciate it have a warm Merry Christmas