Greetings and a question regarding deaths while adding new fish.

[ReefDruid]

Thanks for the response.

I only live a few minutes away from the LFS, and the fish are only in the bags maybe 30 minutes tops (very liberal estimate). As a contrast, fish are in the bags for more than 1.5 hours when I travel to pick fish up at another source further away. No issues (except the pygmy angel, same thing happened).

When I put them in the acclimation container it is heated and aerated. The alk. 7-11 varies between tanks and depends on water changes etc.

I should also note, that I have acclimated more than just the clowns in the container at the same time. Everyone else is just fine, but the clown always dies. I get other fish, or tank raised clowns, and no issues whatsoever.