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Adam Blundell 
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Posted: December 01 2014 at 7:44pm |
I've been in this industry for a very long time. While it is certainly true that I have far greater success with marine fish than nearly every other hobbyist, I will certainly admit that I too have faced disappointing days.
Today is another humble reminder that sometimes things can go very bad, very quickly. My good old friend Amyloodinium has found my tank. Not only that but apparently the conditions in my tank are just right for these little buggers. I'm losing all my fish, all very quickly, right in front of me. I've lost many fish that I've now had for over 5 years, and even fish I just took over care of last month. In a few months I'll start that long process of building back up the amazing display I've had, but for right now it looks like the tank is in waiting mode.
Adam ps- ignoring the fish.... the rest of the reef system looks amazing right now. Not sure my tank has ever "looked" this good
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Posted: December 01 2014 at 8:23pm |
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That sucks. We are still trying to get the shop tank back after a crash that nearly wiped out 5years of work.
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Posted: December 01 2014 at 8:48pm |
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I feel your pain. That is what killed every one of my fish earlier this year as well. Either the disease or the treatment. Take your pick.
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Posted: December 01 2014 at 8:55pm |
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Oh man, so sorry to hear.
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Posted: December 01 2014 at 9:40pm |
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Ohhhhh nooooo! Adam, I'm so sorry.
My water issue is back, and I'm losing my big Acro colonies in my display. It's amazing how we can work so hard and do so well...then have these humbling moments.
Here's to your quick bounce back. Let me know if you need anything.
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Posted: December 02 2014 at 9:40am |
So sorry to hear this. It's a down day when this happens.
It could have just been coincidence, but none of my regular fish succumbed to an outbreak of Velvet 4 months ago when I used MarksReef Garlic Treatment frequently during the outbreak. I lost about 20 of the 80 deformed rescued Clownfish, but ~10 of them and all of my regular fish are still with me. It's not the cure nor is it completely effective in all cases, but it doesn't hurt to use this special Garlic Oil. Text or call if you want some.
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Posted: December 02 2014 at 4:10pm |
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Sorry to hear Adam. Dec seems like a bad time of the year for things going south. Just about a year ago today I had my tank break and lose almost everything. I feel your pain and know the helpless feeling. It's these setbacks that help us grow into better reefers. Do you have any idea how you got this outbreak?
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Posted: December 02 2014 at 4:20pm |
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Sorry to hear about his Adam. You had some amazing fish.
My tank is just coming out of a small crash from about a month ago when I lost ALL of my SPS. Just when things look to be going better than ever is when things seem crash. Why is that?
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Posted: December 02 2014 at 4:32pm |
Brad- I'm not sure where from, but it could have been there all along. I think sometimes stress (a couple new fish) or a big change (I recently did a large water change) can just cause the perfect storm of the right conditions.
DMower- yep, it's basically the same thing you had happen. I know very well that you can't be in this hobby for long before something like this happens, but still it comes out of nowhere.
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Posted: December 02 2014 at 5:09pm |
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Sorry to hear that, Adam. I know how frustrating that can be. I had a power outage at work several years ago wipe out everything. I've had the same velvet ich you have wipe out my home tank as well.
You know, it can be a positive thing if you have a fish you don't care for... Just sayin'
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Posted: December 02 2014 at 5:28pm |
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That sucks. I'm sorry this has happened Adam.
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Posted: December 02 2014 at 5:47pm |
Man sorry to hear that. Its taken me well over a year to get the motivation to begin the replacement of my fish in the 270g after loosing around 35 fish (only 2 survivors) when a cucumber crawled down the drain, into the sump, and then committed suicide by crawling into the sump pump.... and poisoning the entire tank... was devastating... so I know how you feel...
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Posted: December 02 2014 at 9:13pm |
Troy- I had that happen like 10 years ago to me as well!!!! Some people here may remember my awesome orange medusa worm. That thing was AWESOME! Until one day it killed all 50 of my fish in one day. Yep, in one day.
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Posted: December 03 2014 at 12:04am |
Sorry man! The last few months I've had my share of disasters... a broken tank, AEFW x2, red bugs, broken lighting system, uv-sterilizer broken, over-dose on alk, and a heater malfunction. I lost about 75% of the coral I had last year. Time to rebuild! (I already did lol)
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Posted: December 03 2014 at 4:55am |
Me too. Overdose on Alk is one of my recent disasters. Then there were the catastrophes caused by too much sun. Yep, too much direct sun causes lethal sunburn, even through three panes of glass and a foot of water at this latitude. Then I went too long with high PO4 - I was too dumb to check it. It's difficult for me to admit these mistakes. I can only hope I've learned from them. Sorry for your losses. You're all still awesome fishy friends. Aloha, Mark
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Posted: February 11 2015 at 5:22pm |
Well it's been two months now. The disease wiped out a lot of fish, and left me with 16 in my tank. Those 16 look fantastic and have for two months now. I'm to that point where you start to say "well, maybe I should look at adding a couple more fish." I'm the disease still exists, actually I'm sure it always does, but making the move to restock is always a debate.
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Posted: February 11 2015 at 6:08pm |
 Adam Blundell wrote:
Well it's been two months now. The disease wiped out a lot of fish, and left me with 16 in my tank. Those 16 look fantastic and have for two months now. I'm to that point where you start to say "well, maybe I should look at adding a couple more fish." I'm the disease still exists, actually I'm sure it always does, but making the move to restock is always a debate.
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What fish actually survived? And what did you lose? I'm always interested in hearing what fish make it. There's always a surprise
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Posted: February 11 2015 at 7:18pm |
Well, some really old fish, which is cool. Still have a couple long surviving tangs, wrasse, my fusi goby who has been around forever, firefish, wrasse.
What I lost.... all my anemonefish. Every pair. Angels. Blue Tangs. Jawfish. Sand Gobies.
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Posted: February 12 2015 at 12:23am |
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Crazy that a dinoflagellate can cause such destruction. Nature is scary.
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Posted: February 12 2015 at 12:38am |
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So, it does sound like there's any effective treatment. Is there a way to get it out of your tank?
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