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I have a 180 gallon reef w/ blue tang, yellow tang, 2 pygmy angels, 5 chromis, 1 wrasse, starry blenny. For Xmas I wanted to add some new fish and I proposed that if I added a few at the same time they would fair better with the aggression being spread across a few fish.
I QT all new fish together in a 20 gallon w LR and existing filter media got them eating, BBS from a feeder, clam, mysis shrimp, and reef frenzy. They stayed in QT for 3 weeks. Tank was stocked with copods.
I added them to my tank and the fatalities are rising. My procedure for adding is I dimmed the lights in the tank and added them at 6:00pm giving them time to find a hiding spot for the night. tank parameters matched exactly. I moved the rock around that day to help them find hiding places.
* Red Scooter dragonet - died in QT after eating like a pig? No spots nothing wrong with him I could detect?
* Yellow watchman goby 0 died in QT after eating like a pig? No sand in the tank so I think I caused this? No spots nothing wrong with him I could detect.
* Orange spotted goby - DEAD in Display tank. No spots nothing wrong with him I could detect.
* 3 purple firefish - HIDING 1 full day... I fear they will never come out?
* green spotted mandarin - I saw him once alive...
HOW do you ever introduce fish to an existing tank? WHO could I add to my tank successfully? I wanted some fish on the bottom of the tank and different interesting looking fish.
After weeks of work to see them dead is soooo upsetting.
Neptune
I QT all new fish together in a 20 gallon w LR and existing filter media got them eating, BBS from a feeder, clam, mysis shrimp, and reef frenzy. They stayed in QT for 3 weeks. Tank was stocked with copods.
I added them to my tank and the fatalities are rising. My procedure for adding is I dimmed the lights in the tank and added them at 6:00pm giving them time to find a hiding spot for the night. tank parameters matched exactly. I moved the rock around that day to help them find hiding places.
* Red Scooter dragonet - died in QT after eating like a pig? No spots nothing wrong with him I could detect?
* Yellow watchman goby 0 died in QT after eating like a pig? No sand in the tank so I think I caused this? No spots nothing wrong with him I could detect.
* Orange spotted goby - DEAD in Display tank. No spots nothing wrong with him I could detect.
* 3 purple firefish - HIDING 1 full day... I fear they will never come out?
* green spotted mandarin - I saw him once alive...
HOW do you ever introduce fish to an existing tank? WHO could I add to my tank successfully? I wanted some fish on the bottom of the tank and different interesting looking fish.
After weeks of work to see them dead is soooo upsetting.
Neptune