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Bridge_Man
07/12/2006, 05:52 AM
All last evening, my four year old clown was acting normal, ate fine and happily did clown stuff. About forty minutes after lights out I left the room for a few minutes, came back and there he was dead on the bottom with his fins twitching. In a matter of minutes he went from alive and thriving to stone cold dead. There are two other fish in this 90 gallon, a larger female clown (no aggression) and a foxface (also no aggression). The only recent addition was a bubble coral about a week ago. I am thinking that he ate something that poisoned him in very short order. He didn't choke because I checked his throte. Has anyone else ever experienced anything like this?

lux_06
07/12/2006, 06:39 AM
anything poisonous in the tank that may be hideing? cone shell? cowrie?

Bridge_Man
07/12/2006, 06:43 AM
This is the first time anything like this has happened in the past 4 years, but I don't know if it is possible that something could've hitch hiked in on the new bubble coral. I will definitely be looking close for something tonight.

Bridge_Man
07/13/2006, 07:53 AM
One more ride to the top for ideas.

andyjd
07/13/2006, 09:17 AM
perhaps the bubble got him