This starts off as a good story turned horror story....
Bought 5 angelfish for my 72 gal bowfront 2-3 weeks ago and we really enjoyed their colour, vitality, and the way they used the rockwork for swimming in and out of. They ate with gusto PE mysis soaked in lots of Zoe and a drop of Garlic Xtreme twice daily, gnoshed on macroalgae and picked stuff off the rockwork all day.
Then, one came down with velvet and I started treating it with in-tank with reef-safe Rally. Two of the fish were near death yesterday morning, so I euthanized them (not with the rock though
). This morning, two more were dead, leaving the original fish with velvet still alive. Expect it to die soon leaving me with an empty tank
Don't actually think velvet killed some of the fish, and have no idea what did them in. All I know is that they are deader than a doornail
Water params this morning: ammonia, nitrite and nitrate all 0 ppm, temp 77 F, pH 8.15.
80-some lbs LR, 3" sandbed, two Hagen 802s with Quickfilters filled with foam for crud/nitrate export, soft corals doing well, 3 x 55w pc for light. No skimmer, no sump. Tank had been set up, cycled and fed for 2 months prior to introducing fish.
Am going to leave the tank fallow for 6-8 weeks so any pathogens will hopefully die without hosts. Will continue to feed and do regular maintenance on the tank. After that, though, I want more angelfish
The angel that we liked the most was the Singapore angel (Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus), so I would like to restock the tank around this particular fish. Any suggestions of other angels to be housed with the Singapore would be much appreciated. Hope to have 4-5 angels and no other fish.
Now, go ahead and spend my money on angels
