[Chaloupa]

Hey Tim-thanks for the reply...actually the first 4 were from Hillside, we got them from Cora and they were great...nothing against her fish at all...she has some nice stuff and thats where we got all our live rock and live sand and information on how to start up our tank. Our second set came from Japarto at Safari...they too were amazing. We actually thought with our first ones that it was the travel time and handling and we were really new at it.....we replaced with 4 more as we thought that it was due to our error.....then once we lost them we actually found a couple in town that are absolutely amazing and they got our water parameters in good order...once our water was in "perfect" condition we then added the fish, not realizing that the issue was a parasite not our water condition because our water was a bit out of whack in regards to ALK and a few other things. This is where we made the biggest mistake. We thought it was our inexperience that was killin the fish. The fish from the people in town are all Q'd seperately for several weeks prior to sale. They are amazing.

Now on to the fish-they didn't flash against stuff, their color was really good and they looked normal until they were lying on the ground...that is when they had more rapid breathing. Until that point though they look fine, they just don't eat.....they would sort of hover over the bottom on the day prior to death though and then lose some color. We have never seen a parasite...that is why we are trying to figure this out......I really appreciate you taking the time to help us and will look forward to more replies!