Well my coral breauty just died...

[tim000]

Yea I bought it saturday night, it was doing fine until monday night it lost its coral and was on the laying on the bottom. then tues he was looking good until weds night he was doingthe same thing, and was dead this morning.

does anybody have any suggestions on why, everything else in the tank is doing great damsel,xenia,anem,snails,hermits,shrimp. I added a few more lbs of live rock 2 3 days before i boughtthe CB im wondering if thats why, I also started adding coral-vita and iodine the same weekend, maybe I over dosed one of these.

any idea ???
thanks alot!

 

[Anonymous]

It lost it's coral? Maybe it died of a broken heart. Losing one's coral can be rather traumatizing.
Seriously, there are a hundered reasons why it could have died. Stress from collecting methods or from shipping. Some difference in your water parameters might have added to an already overly stressed fish. He could have succomed to an internal injury, or disease.
It sounds a bit like some kind of trauma induced by collecting/shipping however.
It's rather useless to spend too much energy trying to figure it out if your water params are in order. Coral beauties are not the hardiest of dwarf angels either.
Be very careful dosing iodine! You should know if you overdosed it or not.
Try again, and quarantine.
Jim

 

[EmilyB]

Depending on how large your tank is, yes there was likely some recycling with the addition of more rock. The dwarf angels are very susceptible to any kind of stressor.

FWIW, I will add, that on the one occasion I added Coral-Vital (is this what you meant ?) to two separate tanks, all the fish got ill.

Fortunately, a lot of water changing and I did not loose any. I never tested the pH at the time, but have read it screws that up, among other things.

 

[desktopsilver]

ya i just had a major tank crash after adding coral vital,,by mark weiss ,,,man i kept trying to blame other stuff but looks like others might have the same thing going on,,,,,i paid like 22 dollars for the little bottle two,,it kinda smells like liquid plastic,,,any one else have bad luck with this coral vital ****

 

[Ben1]

Mark weiss products arnt very wise to add.

Though when they first came out I started using the coral vital and lsd or what ever its called. I never had a crash but wasted alot of money.

What size tank, what type of live rock, cured or uncured? In any case this was probably the problem. How bad was the damsel chasing him?

 

[tim000]

actually the CR was chassing the damsel for the most part. the LB was cured, I added 8lbs of it into a 15g tank (I think this was the problem).
I had my water tested before I bought the fish by my LFS and they said there was a little amonia but not much and it would be safe to get a fish. after having that happen im now looking at getting my own test kit.

BTW- I added "coral-vite by kent" not vital

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[31-2c]

Did you check your ammonia. With only a 15 gallon tank, the rock you added probably caused an ammonia spike. Then when you added the CB, it caused the spike to go higher.

No offense, but putting a CB in a 15 gallon tank is cruel and unusual punishment!

 

[davelin315]

If you had ammonia in your tank and then added rock and a new fish, you probably killed it with an ammonia and nitrite spike. There is no such thing as a "safe" amount of ammonia in your tank. If your biological filter is not mature enough to handle the current load (as evidenced by the presence of ammonia in your tank), then adding a new fish will only elevate the ammonia level, and cause a crash in your system. I would check your ammonia and nitrite levels, and my guess is they are both present, which is bad news for all of your inhabitants. Especially in a 15 gallon tank, any slight bit of ammonia and nitrite can be deadly, especially because your bioload is probably more suited to a tank 2 times the size of what you have. And I agree with the above post that 15 gallons is not enough for a coral beauty. You really should go back to your LFS and smack whoever told you that it's okay to have ammonia in your tank and add a fish. Ammonia is a sign of a cycling tank, and you should never add a fish to a cycling tank.

 

[kipreefer]

What store did you go to. I may have to pay htem a visit.