Need ur guys help..

Jep21

Jep21

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So i checked my biocube29 tank today once i got home from work... And its sad for me to say but i found 2 more fishes dead..

One of my ora tiger gobies died.. Weird thing about him is that he had no fins that were damaged no nothing looked healthy stomach full.. Buy just was lifeless.. Taped him with the coral stick and nothing...

Next is my spotted mandarin dragonette.. Died also.. Body whited out and tail gone.. Not sure whats going on if my melanarus is doing it but the deaths are bugging me.. Before these two fishes passed i had a yellow tail blue damsel die on tuesday.. Hid in the rocks and just found him dead stuck to my mp10.. Now the only fish i have are the melanarus wrasse not sure if alice since its his bedtime right now.. and maybe an ora tiger goby and barnacle blenny but i cant find them..Any suggestions on what it might be thats causing all the deaths.. Corals and inverts are fine its just the fish that are getting killed.

-Oh and regarding the bodies of the fishies they were not put in the toilet but recycled back into the tank via rock nem/anemone or dendro/plate coral using them as food-
 
Tank info just incase ur asking
29 biocube no lid..
Light: a CC120 full spectrum led light
Flow: 1 koralia 240, 1 koralia 420, and 1 mp10..
Skimmer/filtration: reef octopus bh1000/intank fuge with cheato, LR and ulva lettuce..
Tank temp 79-80
Water parama are spot on..
 
I would bet on the Melanarus causing the deaths. They can become aggressive, especially in a smaller tank with several other tank-mates. I love my Melanarus, but he can chase my Chalk Basslet around at times and I have a 265 gallon. I hate when I lose a fish. I just lost a CBB because my sailfin didn't like him. GL.
 
IMO your tank is to small for a melanurus wrasse and like Jon said that might just be creating aggressiveness.
 
Steve1986 said:
IMO your tank is to small for a melanurus wrasse and like Jon said that might just be creating aggressiveness.
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+1 it's like putting you in a box and leaving you there to suffer... Give that fish a bigger home my friend they need lots of swimming space and rocks to graze on....
 
I would put money on the Melanarus too.

FWIW: I had mine in a 29 for a short period before setting up my 65gal. I had to feed him morning, noon and night. If we missed the noon feeding he started chasing other fish, attacked the CUC etc. His hunting mode seem to go into overdrive when not fed. I got him to take care of a flatworm problem and once he took care of the flatworms the constant food was not there. In your case the Manderin competed for food with it. Mine would have killed it too. Maybe bump your feeding up till you get him out. Bigger tank and more natural food supply and mine is a model tank mate now.
 
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