MrSalty
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So I have lost 3 fish in the past week. A Banggai Cardnalfish, Watchman Goby, and now a Skunk cleaner Shrimp. I have a frag rack I put in my tank, it's the "POPETPOP Coral Holder" off amazon. I had my frags on the sandbed and I they had been getting covered with sand so I wanted them off the sand.
Fish fish the Banggai cardinal I saw going near the rack and sitting between the glass and the rack for some reason. I had scarred him out of there a couple times and then the 3 time I seen him he was vertical and wouldn't move. I put my hand in the tank and pulled him out and he sank to the sandbed. He was breathing but acted like he had no control over half his body. He died about an hour later.
Second fish a watchman goby. I had 3 and 2 would stay and they sandbed, but the third would try and go all the way to the top of the tank. I know he made up onto the frag rack a few times. I found him flopping around directly under the frag rack, same symptoms as the Banggai Cardnal.
Third fish Cleaner Shrimp. He mostly hung out under the rocks but he would occasionally go exploring around the tank when I would feed. This morning I seen him exploring directly under the rack hanging off the bottom. I came in 3 hours later and he is upside down under the rack dead. Similar the the others.
I'm thinking I might just take all the corals and the rack out of the tank and put them in a separate tank. What could be on the corals that is killing the fish? My snail don't seem affected by it whatsoever. I have some nerite and bumblebee snails that are constantly cleaning them.
Fish fish the Banggai cardinal I saw going near the rack and sitting between the glass and the rack for some reason. I had scarred him out of there a couple times and then the 3 time I seen him he was vertical and wouldn't move. I put my hand in the tank and pulled him out and he sank to the sandbed. He was breathing but acted like he had no control over half his body. He died about an hour later.
Second fish a watchman goby. I had 3 and 2 would stay and they sandbed, but the third would try and go all the way to the top of the tank. I know he made up onto the frag rack a few times. I found him flopping around directly under the frag rack, same symptoms as the Banggai Cardnal.
Third fish Cleaner Shrimp. He mostly hung out under the rocks but he would occasionally go exploring around the tank when I would feed. This morning I seen him exploring directly under the rack hanging off the bottom. I came in 3 hours later and he is upside down under the rack dead. Similar the the others.
I'm thinking I might just take all the corals and the rack out of the tank and put them in a separate tank. What could be on the corals that is killing the fish? My snail don't seem affected by it whatsoever. I have some nerite and bumblebee snails that are constantly cleaning them.
