First casualty in new reef tank

Checked my water; ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate are all in line still. Yesterday morning the 3 fish fed as normal, there were no signs of distress in any of them. Would it be normal for a stressed fish to change from okay to "out of it" that quickly?

When I add the koralia 4 next week I will re-aquascape so the fish will have a harder time to get into a position of getting sucked in.

 

Some fish are smart and some stupid , maybee he is just the later.
I wait for the day one of my fish get sucked into a P/H because I have four in my tank and they are on timmers and I watch the fish namly my baby hippo tang race up to the P/Hs when they switch off to nibble at the algea on them, and race away just as the start back up
(its like russian roulet with a power head)LOL

 

In my opinion 3 small damsels in a cycling tank larger than 80 gals is not too many fish. Although I'm now more aware of how little the LFS employees know, I've always had the same 55 gal tank, and have cycled it probably a dozen or more times over the years. At the advice of the LFS folks, I've never used less than 4 damsels. I've even used 8 one time, and had no ill effects.

As far as leaving or removing the dead fish it probably doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. If it stays, it will create a small ammonia spike, which is beneficial at this point in cycling, but it's still a short-lived spike, rather than a slowly accumulating source of ammonia, which would be more natural. Either way, it won't speed up the cycling process.

 

I had a similar problem amcarrig... I hate a juvenile clown fish that was stuck against my PH inlet. It fell to the bottom when I unhooked it and another fish quickly grabbed it and I never saw it again, but when i was looking down at the rocks to try to see where he was pulled under i saw a skeleton of one of my chromis! I was so happy haha... My girlfriend went nuts and bought me six of THEM! they were pairing up and annoying all of the other fish so I netted two of them and got rid of them then it was 2 and 2. I guess one of the other fish had it and killed him and now all three are together and they do not bother anyone. I am so relieved I hated them...As for the clownfish it had been acting wierd for a few days and not eating or really swimming. I should have quarntined it to make sure it was few right but i did not have a tank set up good luck!

 

i dunno it you already know this or if it wont work with koralias but you could try to place a bio-ball over the intake to prevent fish from getting sucked in, sont worry about leaving the fish in there your tank is by far large enough to accomodate for a small death, sorry for the loss

 

ya know that really makes sense to me! Mine's been going thru a constant cycle, wow, Thanks RS!


sorry carry on with the current conversation....I just had an epiphany and had to share it....;D