Doomed to Crash???

[Rbacchiega]

For those of you who've had a tank crash, what were the signs that led up to it? I've lost two fish in the span of 48 hours, parameters are fine, corals look better than they have ever been. But just now I pulled out my Ember Blenny (nooooooooooooooo!) who was looking fine today and ate this morning. And yesterday I lost the copperband. Mandarin, Foxface, Kole and Cardinal are looking fine, active and just ate.

[Leah]

Oh, sorry to hear about your fish, have you figured out the problem yet?

[Borderjumper]

Is anything different? Change salts? additives? If everything tests out ok ( lots of PH crashes locally lately) I wouldnt worry too much. Sometimes fish just die and copperbands are a tough one to keep anyways.

Keep a close eye on everything.

[Carmen]

Ohh Sorry to hear Randy. Any ideas yet?

[Delphinus]

Ouch .. sorry to hear.

Generally speaking to me a tank crash is something you can indeed track (ie. NO3, or NO2, or even NH4 in extreme cases). Or there's an off smell to it, or some such. It's usually corals that show distress first. Fish showing first .. arrrgh, I don't really know. But I wonder if it could be that they were both new acquisitions and didn't transition well (and it's just coincidence on the timing), or maybe something more sinister like disease or something ??

I'm so sorry for your losses.

[digital-audiophile]

Once you have smelled a tank that is dying, you will never forget it.