Hi All,
Looking for answers to why my clown suddenly died. On Monday evening I added a small BTA to my tank. Until that point I had a small maroon clown, watchman goby, and two small frags of zoo's. My tank has been up for about 8 months now. It's a 14 gallon biocube with live rock, standard lighting (10K & atinic), protein skimmer. The BTA attached right away and the clown was immediately attentive to it. Tuesday, things still seemed fine, the clown was nestled in the anemone and seemed quite content...both fish and anemone had eaten. Came home from work yesterday to find my clown being eaten by hermits and the anemone had been on the move...moved about 4 inches and closer to the powerhead. I tested for ammonia, phos, nitrites, nitrates, & ph and all were within normal ranges (I don't have exact numbers in front of me at moment). Can't figure out what could have gone wrong so quickly. The watchman goby and zoo's all seem fine. Any advise???? Do anemone ever turn against clowns? So disappointing but I would really like to find out what happened so I can prevent it from happening again. Thanks, Shannon
Looking for answers to why my clown suddenly died. On Monday evening I added a small BTA to my tank. Until that point I had a small maroon clown, watchman goby, and two small frags of zoo's. My tank has been up for about 8 months now. It's a 14 gallon biocube with live rock, standard lighting (10K & atinic), protein skimmer. The BTA attached right away and the clown was immediately attentive to it. Tuesday, things still seemed fine, the clown was nestled in the anemone and seemed quite content...both fish and anemone had eaten. Came home from work yesterday to find my clown being eaten by hermits and the anemone had been on the move...moved about 4 inches and closer to the powerhead. I tested for ammonia, phos, nitrites, nitrates, & ph and all were within normal ranges (I don't have exact numbers in front of me at moment). Can't figure out what could have gone wrong so quickly. The watchman goby and zoo's all seem fine. Any advise???? Do anemone ever turn against clowns? So disappointing but I would really like to find out what happened so I can prevent it from happening again. Thanks, Shannon