fish all dead...

That is horrible! Sorry to hear it.  The first thing that came to mind for me is if you had a big temperature swing overnight.  How long has your tank been running?

Do you have good water flow.  When our refugium went out, the oxygen went too low and we lost a couple fish.  Are you running a skimmer or do you skim off the top?  A trick Mark taught us is to lay a piece of saran rap on the top and pull it right off.  It pulls of the fat off the top.  Works really well on a nano without a skimmer.

not yet  tanks been up almost a year now, Yes I am running a skimmer. Also my flow should be more than enough I have a koralia nano and also the stock flow going and it provides quite a bit. Also I'm running a phosreactor with activated carbon and phosban in it.  In the back I have the sponge in the first chamber, chaeto in the second, and bioballs and the phosreactor in the third, So I'm really kinda stumped as to why they died. The only thing I added was some kent marine essentials and thats about it. Oh yeah also garlic Xtreme because my little clown had some ick.

also no chance it was a temp swing I just replaced the heater and I haven't seen more than 1 degree change in it at any point. My tank stays around 79-80 at all times

the only corals I'm seeing any difference in are SOME mushrooms are shrunk up a bit and the pocillipora or accilapora (not really sure which one it really is) looks a little less fuzzy than normal. Other than that all others seem normal. Acros/Millaporas doing fine, duncans fine, clams ok, plate corals are cool, zoos all good

I'm really stumped as to what happened??? Any chance I overdosed on garlic???


Edited by FRAGgleROCK - January 01 2008 at 6:50pm

yeah PH looks ok, I'm using a swingarm that I seasoned and calibrated recently and my salinity is .24 I used to have it at .23 but since adding the hard corals I brought it up a bit

I'm thinking I used a little too much to soak the formula 1 flakes in (3-4 drops cause I wasn't seeing any change in the little guys ick sores), and no I haven't refrigerated it, it didn't say to on the bottle?

Thanks Steve!

thats the weird thing the ammonia and nitrites are still at 0, my nitrates are still a little high 60-80 but it's been like that for weeks. Now I'm wondering if maybe I didn't wash my hands before feeding the fish, maybe I overdosed with the garlic and then contaminated the water with cigarette smoke residue on my hand??? But I really don't smoke that much so I'm thinking it's the garlic that's the culprit. Anyone else heard of garlic overdose???

What ever happened seems to have happened quickly. I would say some sort of contamination if it wasn't temperature.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
That sux big time bro!

electric shock??