Lesson Learned and a warning

[BCOrchidGuy]

Well, I did exactly what I'm not supposed to do, and I paid for it through my wallet but worse, my fish paid for it with their lives.
I had a healthy thriving reef/fish tank going, it was a sight, then I bought a Orange shoulder Tang and 3 shovel nose gobies from a reputable dealer, not my LFS (which is reputable in my book). I aclimated them and added them to my tank, with in two days I noticed my yellow Eye tang had white spots, and one of my yellow corris wrasses was scratching. I debated about ripping apart the tank completely and catching the fish but my LFS was kind enough to lend me a fish trap. I caught two of the fish in my tank, one was dead with in hours, I ended up buying a new garbage can, taking all my LR out, all my coral out, and catching my fish. I put my tank back together, (13 hours to do it all) I used water right out of my tank to put the fish in and I treated them to Greenex, a formeldehyde Malachite green mixture. I also lowered the salinity from 1.025 to 1.022 with plans to lower it again today to 1.014.... Today when I got up, I had two dead tomato clowns, two dead black saddle backs, a dead corris wrasse, two dead blue sided fairy wrasse a dead orange shoulder tang, a dead yellow eye tang and a dead cleaner shrimp.... and a broken heart.

NOW (loser) I have a sick/hospital tank set up that will keep all new fish for 30 days or 30 days after any treatment they get before they go into my reef tank.

My corals are not doing so well either, I guess all the moving and stuff was a real stress on them. I am planning on doing 3 10% water changes today to try to get everything back to normal in my reef, but it sure looks empty with out the fish.

So, do the hospital tank thing folks, you never know where a disease/parasite will come from, not only can it prove expensive but heart breaking.

Doug.

PS My clarkii pair were in a seperate tank and have no sign of illness. (Lucky)