Puffer Chick's 46 Gallon Bowfront Reef

This has been suggested many many many times and it is very interesting how a full 1/2 day's worth of constructive criticism and suggestions to help the OP's "string of bad luck" magically disappeared overnight because it clearly wasn't what the she wanted to hear, or maybe because the comments weren't sugar coated and topped off with a nice bit of K+

It was perceived by OP as "bashing", and quickly made clear afterwards by many of the main contributors on this thread, that there were no bashing undertones in the comments. Quite the opposite actually, with good stern advice served in a fashion that didn't give OP warm fuzzy smiley face feelings.

It was then suggested how this thread could be perceived by an outsider visiting the forums for the first time after reading said comments. If anything, I thought it would be perceived as great advice and a good example of the "bad luck" you could experience if the sound advice of the very experienced reefers on this board, myself NOT included, was thrown by the wayside over and over again.

Whiskey, I could see how that kind of suggestion might seem like a new one as it appears all others like it might have somehow been deleted for some reason. FWIW, since my suggestion yesterday was also deleted, and to reiterate, I agree with Whiskey and the best course of action might be to leave tank alone for awhile and not add any more livestock until the underlying problem is found and solved. Going fallow for the 2-3 months and not adding any coral or inverts would if nothing else, give the tank a good chance of stabilizing and kill off any ich as they would need a fish for a host. I really hope the root of problem can finally be discovered.

And here's a smiley face for good measure -> ;D

 

I fully agree and have seen some really good advice on this thread given that hasn't been taken to kindly. I didn't mean my last comment to preclude this, but I do believe it to be a contributing factor.

 

I'm not convinced it's brooklynella either Tracy. The cloudy eyes sound like some type of a bacterial infection. I guess it could be possible that the ich bothered them so much they developed bacterial infections? I'm not really sure. Just an idea!

How are the fish today?

 

Edit: Issue resolved.

 

ive got growth on my carnation i have yet to feed it but will be getting some food today the flower pot has been looking iffy but at least the carnation is happy

also and update about the fish, the female clown had passed away but the male is still alive his body looks horrible but he is still active and eating i say this disease came from the wrasses and the chromis and pink margin are still doing good as well as the corals and ive got some crazy coralline growth on my walls

the growth is the branch at the bottom iv only had this for not even a week yet


before

oh yea color is different because my lights are off so i took it with the flash on this morning

 

Is that how the coral looks all of the time? I ask because a "happy" dendro should look like this:

Google Image Result for http://www.livestockusa.org/carnation2.jpg

 

yea its looks like that all the time i dont know what its supposed to look like normally cause thats how it also looked at the lfs but its been growing so ill take a look at the link though

just looked at the link ive never seen this thing look like that not even at the lfs mine also appears to be different than those as well

 

I'm not sure how it could be growing considering that from what you've said, it hasn't opened up to feed since who knows when. If you're going to try to feed it, it's best to do it when the tank lights are out.

 

How do you figure if you've never seen it when it was opened up?

 

belive me its growing that is a new branch. and ill feed both it and the flower pot tonight after lights out