HamishBrooke
New Member
Hi, please bare with me- we are new to this!
My son and I have set up a marine tank. Cycled it, all going well. Water tested ok, so put a hermit crab in. He went well, a couple of weeks later we had water tested again. They told us it was perfect. We bought 2 clown fish and a bubble tip anemone (since found out it is not recommended to get anemone this early, but it was advised it would be fine and it seemed to be). All going really well for 6 weeks or so. Started to get different algae’s. So went to the fish shop and purchased a lawnmower blenny and 2 x purple Chromis’s. Water all tested perfectly still. My son dosed tank with Melafix a couple of times, just in case. Fish all getting along great! Lawnmower cleaning up algae nicely. 2 days later 1st chromis died, then 2 days later 2nd one did, 1 day later lawnmower dead. Clown fish stopped eating and anemone moved a couple of times and now not opening properly. Got water tested and still perfect they said. Clown fish acting very strangely. Still not eating and seem obsessed with a small cave in the tank. Seemed like they may have been nesting and we wondered if the girl had laid eggs in the cave as the male was staying at the front of it and the female not going far at all. Still not eating. We thought maybe they got territorial and killed the other fish, although they seemed to all get along great. Today, only 2 days after lawnmower died, the male clownfish was found dead. Female still won’t leave the front of the cave and the anemone is looking very sunken in and hermit crab hasn’t moved for a couple of days. We don’t know what to do! Water tests are perfect. We just don’t know where we have gone wrong or what to do from here! We have googled and googled and can’t find anything. It definitely doesn’t look like there is any disease, but we are still learning and finding it hard to get advise! Thanks very much!!
My son and I have set up a marine tank. Cycled it, all going well. Water tested ok, so put a hermit crab in. He went well, a couple of weeks later we had water tested again. They told us it was perfect. We bought 2 clown fish and a bubble tip anemone (since found out it is not recommended to get anemone this early, but it was advised it would be fine and it seemed to be). All going really well for 6 weeks or so. Started to get different algae’s. So went to the fish shop and purchased a lawnmower blenny and 2 x purple Chromis’s. Water all tested perfectly still. My son dosed tank with Melafix a couple of times, just in case. Fish all getting along great! Lawnmower cleaning up algae nicely. 2 days later 1st chromis died, then 2 days later 2nd one did, 1 day later lawnmower dead. Clown fish stopped eating and anemone moved a couple of times and now not opening properly. Got water tested and still perfect they said. Clown fish acting very strangely. Still not eating and seem obsessed with a small cave in the tank. Seemed like they may have been nesting and we wondered if the girl had laid eggs in the cave as the male was staying at the front of it and the female not going far at all. Still not eating. We thought maybe they got territorial and killed the other fish, although they seemed to all get along great. Today, only 2 days after lawnmower died, the male clownfish was found dead. Female still won’t leave the front of the cave and the anemone is looking very sunken in and hermit crab hasn’t moved for a couple of days. We don’t know what to do! Water tests are perfect. We just don’t know where we have gone wrong or what to do from here! We have googled and googled and can’t find anything. It definitely doesn’t look like there is any disease, but we are still learning and finding it hard to get advise! Thanks very much!!