Worst Month Yet.

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Originally Posted by tony_3a

Ok i will start by saying there will be a lot of people that will blame me for all the problems i have had. For the most part i would have to agree.

So my tank was running really well for about 3 months, no ich nothing, everything healthy and eating, mated pair of clowns, 4 chromis, koran angel, coral beauty angel. So I wanted two fish, a powder blue, and kole tang, and my buddy picked them up for me from JL and he gets them home and the powder blue has ich on it, and right away i thought ****, but i dont have a qt tank and ich was already in my tank so i put them in, it only took them a couple days to start eating and it had appeared the ich had went away, so then I added a clown tang about 2-3 weeks later, and i was so excited i had all the fish i wanted and i could just let my tank sit and grow.

Then about 3 days after the I added the clown tang, My powder blue broke out with a couple spots, still eating so i thought he could fight it off, over the next couple days it got worse and worse, and after about a week, it died, then shortly after the kole went, and my clown tang died a week after that, all the fish died within a week period. This was about 2 weeks ago, then since then both my clowns died.

Now i am at a loss, it appears i am over the ich, cannot see any spots on any of my fish, but i just feel broken and i do not even know where to go from here. I just feel like if i put any fish into the tank, they are just going to get ill and die.

I am contemplating upgrading to a bigger tank in my basement and using my 90 as a hospital. Then i can also leave my 2 angels in it so they wont touch my corals.

What I posted all this for is I am sure all of you out there have went through the same **** i just did, i just dont know where to go from here.

Thanks for your time, and i would like to thank the guys at oceanic and gobytron for their help.

Tony

Sorry to hear of your troubles.

Firstly, don't be upset with the Powder Blue, they are very difficult to keep, prone to ICH. I even lost mine to it. I would not recommend this fish, unless the tank is BIG and very well established (couple years old or more). And even then maybe it won't survice. They are beautiful, but too many people lose them.

In this hobby, you have hiccups/hurdles, you just learn to work through them. I myself had a major coral loss (hundreds/thousands of dollars gone), as I lost about 35% of my corals (frags and big colonies). I could not explain it, LFS tested things, they also had no explanation. So what gives? Things happen, so don't feel bad, just move forward. As long as you do your best to provide the best environment for your inhabitants, that is all you can do.

How old is your tank? Maybe it is just that you are going to fast. The best thing about marine aquariums is PATIENCE! It is hard sometimes, but take your time. With aging in the tank, it gets even better.

Just have fun! Don't worry!