Doomed to Crash???

[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.

[freddy]

5 weeks ago all my fish died one by one,corals looked great,nitrates were a little high but not dangerous,did your fish have any spoy's or anything before they died.

[originalozzyo]

Mine was caused by a kalkwasser overdose, did a massive water change which stemmed it a bit. But in the end i lost all my nice sps and some smaller fish. I just gave up trying to correct all the water parameters in the tank and restarted in a bigger tank.