JumperAlex
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- Dec 26, 2012
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I have had a 36 gallon bow front tank with about 35-40lbs of live rock for about 2 1/2 months. I am running a fluval 306 canister filter good for 70 gallons of filtration as well as a fluval hang on the back filter good for about 40-50 gallons worth of filtration. I first added a very small Picaso trigger, then waited about 2 weeks and went to my LFS and told them what all I planned on adding in the future (dwarf angel, blue tang (small), yellow tang (small) and a fuzzy dwarf lionfish. They then told me that I should add the blue tang, yellow tang and the dwarf angel all at the same time so they could establish their pecking order and living spaces all at the same time so they would be less aggressive to one another. After adding them everything was going great for the next few weeks so I went and added the fuzzy dwarf lionfish as well as a small chocolate chip starfish. Again everything went well for a while. On the 24th I woke up to see my yellow tang dead, he showed no red on his spines or any strange swimming patterns that would worry me. That night when I got home my dwarf angel was dead and my chocolate chips starfish was on top his body eating him. That same night my blue tang started swimming really crazy like it had a neurological disorder (circles, up and down and into walls) once it stopped I took him out of the tank. I am feeding "Rod's Food" frozen fish food bought from my LFS as well as "marine cousine" and Mises shrimp frozen cubes from PetSmart. I was thawing them all in their own small air tight pill bottles and keeping them in the fridge for about 3 days. The only thing that changed before the fish died was I started mixing all of the food and thawing it out in a single large pill bottle. The way I see it if it had anything to do with the food or not rinsing the pill bottle out well enough then the trigger would have been the first to go seeing as he eats a majority of the food but what do I know...please help with any insight as to what you think may have happened and how I should move on with the tank....P.S. the last damsel I had left from cycling the tank (that the fuzzy dwarf didn't eat) also died on X-mas morning...I also forgot to mention that I test the water with an API drop test kit about once a week and all chemicals tested within normal ranges, a test was done the night before I found all of these fish dead.