I thought these fish were supposed to be hardy?
Tank (75g) has been set up for over three months, with live rock, etc. All levels (ph, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, salinity, etc) are fine.
I QTed 6 chromis for two weeks, then put them in my newly setup main tank (fed by shrimp every other day). Two fish die (I have no idea of what, I assume the cleaning crew eventually got to them). All levels test fine (and the tests work, as the reference tests turn out accurate). So then I buy two more chromis and QT them for two weeks. In that time, two more chromis have dissapeared (ie died)! I put the chromis in, and two days later (today), I see one of them belly side up, breathing hard. No sign of ich, fungus, or bacteria, but I put him in the QT anyways. I test the main tank levels, and once again everything is fine.
I have no idea of what is going on. Before I put them in the main tank they look healthy, and I always see them eating when I feed them.
The only other tank inhabitants are a gold striped maroon clownfish, 6 line wrasse, and royal gramma, all of which have been doing fine, are eating, and look healthy. I have two starfish, snails, and standard crabs you get from those "reef-cleaner packages". I also have a finger leather coral, sea cucumber, and mushroooms.
I can only think of two possibilities. One, the chromis I get from a different fishstore, and maybe they catch them with cyanide. Two, I use RidIch for the first two days of QT (the LFSs here are always infected, although I never buy obviously sick livestock), and maybe the chromis are sensitive to it?
I want a school, but I don't want to kill any more fish.
Tank (75g) has been set up for over three months, with live rock, etc. All levels (ph, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, salinity, etc) are fine.
I QTed 6 chromis for two weeks, then put them in my newly setup main tank (fed by shrimp every other day). Two fish die (I have no idea of what, I assume the cleaning crew eventually got to them). All levels test fine (and the tests work, as the reference tests turn out accurate). So then I buy two more chromis and QT them for two weeks. In that time, two more chromis have dissapeared (ie died)! I put the chromis in, and two days later (today), I see one of them belly side up, breathing hard. No sign of ich, fungus, or bacteria, but I put him in the QT anyways. I test the main tank levels, and once again everything is fine.
I have no idea of what is going on. Before I put them in the main tank they look healthy, and I always see them eating when I feed them.
The only other tank inhabitants are a gold striped maroon clownfish, 6 line wrasse, and royal gramma, all of which have been doing fine, are eating, and look healthy. I have two starfish, snails, and standard crabs you get from those "reef-cleaner packages". I also have a finger leather coral, sea cucumber, and mushroooms.
I can only think of two possibilities. One, the chromis I get from a different fishstore, and maybe they catch them with cyanide. Two, I use RidIch for the first two days of QT (the LFSs here are always infected, although I never buy obviously sick livestock), and maybe the chromis are sensitive to it?
I want a school, but I don't want to kill any more fish.