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Somedays I think that my life should be held up as a warning to others- today is one of those days 
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My 385 Ga has been established now for 8 months. I have followed most of the advice on this forum and in the books I have read and am only about 50% stocked. I have had no algae problems thanks to some industrious hermits that I collected and and large PWcs with fresh sea water. I originally intended to have a FOWLR bit the softie bug bit me and I have added some softies and some anenomes, most given to me by people getting out of the hobby. My water tested perfect after my initial cycle and the whole time since, undetectable Ammonia Ni and No. All my livestock was happy and healthy and I had lost only one fish...(a small banana wrasse that disappeared)... Until 10 days ago..and then things started to go wrong...
I bought 2 banded pipe fish from the LFS, one died within 48 hours from presumably stress. A second banana wrasse also disapeared under mysterious circumstances....No more bananas for me....
I have an Emperor Angel that was given to me by a friend that was reared in a soft tank from a juvinile. Despite better advice I decided to leave him in as he had a placid temprement and had no history of picking at corals- with a wary eye kept on him.... I geuss that genetics overrules past behaviour at some point... I should have listened to you all....
On Sunday morning I woke to find one anenome upside down on top of some leathery 'shrooms I collected locally. No problem, I thought- I've seen anenomes do this when they are looking for a new spot in the tank.....What I failed to notice was that the Emperor had chewed a hole in the foot... and that my large occi clown was missing. That afternoon, I was doing my weekly maintenance routine and I saw that the 'shrooms had been nuked where the anenome had been on top of them, the white rock underneath was exposed and a whole strip of them had just vanished!! My iridis wrasse, the first inhabitant of the tank (called Number One) was behaving erratically as well. I removed the anenome to QT and last night it was nuked, guts hanging out and dead. ....so was my iridis... Water tested as follows: Ammonia- undetectable, Ni- 0.02, No between 5 and 10... all acceptable but higher than normal.. It would appear that the anenome released some poison/ acid into the water when it was stressed and nuked my irisis, occi and 'shrooms...(?)
I have pulled the Emperor and given him away and am doing a 150ga water change today, running carbon as well... next time I wont be so d@mb arrogant!!
I am posting this in the hope that someone learns from my mistake
.....My 385 Ga has been established now for 8 months. I have followed most of the advice on this forum and in the books I have read and am only about 50% stocked. I have had no algae problems thanks to some industrious hermits that I collected and and large PWcs with fresh sea water. I originally intended to have a FOWLR bit the softie bug bit me and I have added some softies and some anenomes, most given to me by people getting out of the hobby. My water tested perfect after my initial cycle and the whole time since, undetectable Ammonia Ni and No. All my livestock was happy and healthy and I had lost only one fish...(a small banana wrasse that disappeared)... Until 10 days ago..and then things started to go wrong...
I bought 2 banded pipe fish from the LFS, one died within 48 hours from presumably stress. A second banana wrasse also disapeared under mysterious circumstances....No more bananas for me....
I have an Emperor Angel that was given to me by a friend that was reared in a soft tank from a juvinile. Despite better advice I decided to leave him in as he had a placid temprement and had no history of picking at corals- with a wary eye kept on him.... I geuss that genetics overrules past behaviour at some point... I should have listened to you all....
On Sunday morning I woke to find one anenome upside down on top of some leathery 'shrooms I collected locally. No problem, I thought- I've seen anenomes do this when they are looking for a new spot in the tank.....What I failed to notice was that the Emperor had chewed a hole in the foot... and that my large occi clown was missing. That afternoon, I was doing my weekly maintenance routine and I saw that the 'shrooms had been nuked where the anenome had been on top of them, the white rock underneath was exposed and a whole strip of them had just vanished!! My iridis wrasse, the first inhabitant of the tank (called Number One) was behaving erratically as well. I removed the anenome to QT and last night it was nuked, guts hanging out and dead. ....so was my iridis...
Water tested as follows: Ammonia- undetectable, Ni- 0.02, No between 5 and 10... all acceptable but higher than normal.. It would appear that the anenome released some poison/ acid into the water when it was stressed and nuked my irisis, occi and 'shrooms...(?)I have pulled the Emperor and given him away and am doing a 150ga water change today, running carbon as well... next time I wont be so d@mb arrogant!!
I am posting this in the hope that someone learns from my mistake
