My last patient of the day was talking about losing her insurance and I asked if her husband had lost his job, she started to cry and said, no, he died. That really put this fish thing into the proper prospective for me. While very sad and frustrating, they are just fish.
So I caught my baby girl mandarin, she was not eating at all today and stayed in one corner and didn't put up much of a fight to catch her. I pulled 30 lbs of live rock from a 10 gallon tank I have that has housed two baby clowns, that I finally sold and will be delivering to their new home tomorrow. So the live rock is in the cube, the cube is set up and had some ammonia in it (i'm assuming from the goby), so I put the proper does of amquel in there, the live rock and have had it running in there. Going to catch the clowns, acclimate everyone and then put them in the QT. I can't believe they are all dying on me, so sad. Let it be a lesson in why you should QT your fish.
The two bangaii's I got were already in rough shape and both died, yes, died, of fin rot I believe, their fins kept disappearing for no good reason. Never get fish that are already looking like they have been in a fight or not healthy, they will die in a matter of days.
So the mandarin and clowns will be treated with hyposalinity, thanks to some links and advice from Meluso. The tank either way will be fishless for at least two months, longer if the QT doesn't go well. I know the live rock will lose the algae and creatures as the salinity drops, but the bacteria they have will help keep the tank stable, and at this point, I need as much help as I can get. Did I mention QT, QT, QT.