They all died

[Taylor]

Back story. I have had these fish for a year in my DT. I decided it was to crowded so I used the aquamedic fish trap to catch them and move the 2 female anthias and the coral beauty to a 20gallon filled with DT water from a day or two before.

Skip forward one week to today and all three fish are dead! I used some of the pukani I had been cycling in another tank for the last 2 or 3 months. The temp is fine at 77. Sg is 1.025.

I checked ammonia just now and it was .25 but who knows if the three died an hour ago or 15 hours ago. Nitrate was between the 10 and 25.

I am thinking three things
1.)Not ammonia because there bodies and scales are perfect. But perhaps nitrite, I was gonna test but my 2+yr old kit but it is dried up.
2.) Oxygen issue, I didn't see any signs leading up to it, in fact I fed yesterday and they all seemed fine but I have a big power head in there and I have it cycle off with the lights as not to blow everyone around all night, also have an oversize power filter, see setup as my normal qt. But it's 3 active fish I did not consider perhaps. Perhaps it depleted over night, just weird it would happen finally last night
3.) I placed a small colony of about 40 heads of a brown and orange zoanthid In there as I didn't want it to spread in my display and it was a free coral so I thought it would be fine in qt. It didn't like it and closed up but all of the stocks are elliptical shape and Long but closed. Can zoas poison fish?

What else could it be?I don't see how it is disease as they have all been just fine forever and no signs at all ever, no spot's, no blemishes.

I'm pretty much in disbelief to be honest.

 

[Micro Reef Tank]

Back story. I have had these fish for a year in my DT. I decided it was to crowded so I used the aquamedic fish trap to catch them and move the 2 female anthias and the coral beauty to a 20gallon filled with DT water from a day or two before.

Skip forward one week to today and all three fish are dead! I used some of the pukani I had been cycling in another tank for the last 2 or 3 months. The temp is fine at 77. Sg is 1.025.

I checked ammonia just now and it was .25 but who knows if the three died an hour ago or 15 hours ago. Nitrate was between the 10 and 25.

I am thinking three things
1.)Not ammonia because there bodies and scales are perfect. But perhaps nitrite, I was gonna test but my 2+yr old kit but it is dried up.
2.) Oxygen issue, I didn't see any signs leading up to it, in fact I fed yesterday and they all seemed fine but I have a big power head in there and I have it cycle off with the lights as not to blow everyone around all night, also have an oversize power filter, see setup as my normal qt. But it's 3 active fish I did not consider perhaps. Perhaps it depleted over night, just weird it would happen finally last night
3.) I placed a small colony of about 40 heads of a brown and orange zoanthid In there as I didn't want it to spread in my display and it was a free coral so I thought it would be fine in qt. It didn't like it and closed up but all of the stocks are elliptical shape and Long but closed. Can zoas poison fish?

What else could it be?I don't see how it is disease as they have all been just fine forever and no signs at all ever, no spot's, no blemishes.

I'm pretty much in disbelief to be honest.

0,25 Amonia could be the issue? 0,25 was when you check it , but it could have been higher

But wait for more expert opinions

http://answers.seneye.com/en/water_chemistry/what_is_ammonia_NH3_NH4/what_ammonia_level_is_safe

 

[Taylor]

Yes, possible but I would have figured the rock would have been more than sufficient. But it may have been a hard lesson, one in which I don't know. It's just that there should have been a sign of ammonia burn?

 

[Micro Reef Tank]

Yes, possible but I would have figured the rock would have been more than sufficient. But it may have been a hard lesson, one in which I don't know. It's just that there should have been a sign of ammonia burn?

My only experience with amonia was when I started and it killed a blue tang
And it was in a week that it happened

I knew nothing about reef tanks but I learned the worst way, Amonia kills fast and I didn’t notice any other signs besides test results

 

[Big G]

Tell us about your filter. What kind of media are you using inside it?

 

[Micro Reef Tank]

I found this detailed text interesting

But probably you have read lots of information already


https://pethelpful.com/fish-aquariums/The-Truth-About-Ammonia

I bought a Amonia alarm to be visible all the time in my little reef tank 4,5G, as something can change fast

It shows Amonia levels all the time

 

[Micro Reef Tank]

Yes, possible but I would have figured the rock would have been more than sufficient. But it may have been a hard lesson, one in which I don't know. It's just that there should have been a sign of ammonia burn?

I found this detailed text interesting

But probably you have read lots of information already


https://pethelpful.com/fish-aquariums/The-Truth-About-Ammonia

I bought a Amonia alarm to be visible all the time in my little reef tank 4,5G, as something can change fast

It shows Amonia levels all the time