Yellow Eye Tang death

[Boochika]

I just had a yellow eye tang die in my tank and I'm devastated. It was just swimming and eating and happy and when I went into the living room I got distracted looking at the tank and couldn't find it. I made sure it wasn't carpet surfing then sadly found it in some rocks with some snails swarming it and eating it.

All I did to the tank today was swap ATO reservoir (standard process done this hundreds of times before) and add a new coral (montipora) to the tank. I dipped the coral prior to adding it but I did rinse it off so none of the dip should have affected the tank. All the inverts and other critters seem fine. Has anyone else seen a fish just drop dead like this?

I want to make sure something serious isn't wrong with my tank when I add other animals.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I just had a yellow eye tang die in my tank and I'm devastated. It was just swimming and eating and happy and when I went into the living room I got distracted looking at the tank and couldn't find it. I made sure it wasn't carpet surfing then sadly found it in some rocks with some snails swarming it and eating it.

All I did to the tank today was swap ATO reservoir (standard process done this hundreds of times before) and add a new coral (montipora) to the tank. I dipped the coral prior to adding it but I did rinse it off so none of the dip should have affected the tank. All the inverts and other critters seem fine. Has anyone else seen a fish just drop dead like this?

I want to make sure something serious isn't wrong with my tank when I add other animals.

Without pics and even if pics, hard to tell once a fish has perished. It can be from being spooked and crashing into object, change in chemistry whether dip or increase in tank temp, low oxygen as examples

 

[Boochika]

Without pics and even if pics, hard to tell once a fish has perished. It can be from being spooked and crashing into object, change in chemistry whether dip or increase in tank temp, low oxygen as examples

Unfortunately it looked like the fish had already been munched on by the snails for a bit when I got to it. But on the surface it looked fine. Where it was it looked like it did almost knock itself out on a rock. I just didn't know if this is common or not.