The Dead Sea relocated to Missouri!

My tank has become bare. It's like the Dead Sea. Over the last 8 months I have lost
5 Emerald Crabs,4 Hermit Crabs, 10 snails, a Wrasse, a Lawnmowwer Blennie, a Yellow head Gobie, my Banded coral Shrimp, 2 Peppermint Shrimp, and my Bubble Anemone.

I am left with a Clown, and a LM Blennie (replaced this one when the original was eaten) several snails, a few Hermit Crabs, and a bunch of LR.

My crabs would be out of sight until their hollow whole carcasses would float to the top of the water. Everything that I thought was killing my stuff has been either traded (Purple Tang) or killed itself.

Man, this sucks. I have a smaller tank that I am going to set up tonight so it can start cycling. I'm just gonna move the Clown, Blenny, rock, and crabs to it and start over with my main tank.
I went almost a year without loosing anything, now poof. I do a 10g change every week and I use RO always. It is really hard to feed just 2 little fish and a few crabs.

 

Wow! that really sucks.

Sounds like you do need a fresh start.

Go by the book, go slow. Test, test and retest water params before adding anything.

Something went horribly wrong if your tank was running OK for a year.

Massive water changes may work in existing tank.

Good luck.

 

Sorry to hear about your losses Have you tested for stray voltage?

 

Maybe a metal poison

HI,
Many times when we convert a tank it has had copper treatments for ick when it was freshwater or maybe something in the rock.
When inverts die I alwyas worry about heavy metals. things can go wrong fast in saltwater.
Another thing that really irks inverts are KH swing and low ca.
Doug
another sorce may be your water supply some places use copper tubing to pipe water to their tanks and sell it as distilled.it was distilled till it hit the copper pipes...
get some test run on your water if its copper I would start fresh with new rock sand and tank if its copper.