Today my wife calls me up at work around noon saying everything in the tank is dying. She says that my little clown is swimming very weird and frantically and that my larger clown and tang are being very sluggish at the top and all my anemones, toadstools, ect. are shriveled up and laying sideways. I asked her to check the sump and she said it was not cycling water. So i have her hook up an old pump and to do a 10g water change. Well tonight i get home and everything seems to be back to normal except my little clown was dead and the big one was hovering over it being very protective of it, kept attacking me when i tried removing the body.
So now I'm wondering if it was the return pump Failure or something else that killed my clown. Why would it only effect him so badly and not the other fish. I have noticed the little one has been really active the last 3 days swimming all over the place. Maybe something was wrong before and this was the final straw. My next problem is that this broke my daughters heart, she cried for an hour before she could muster up the courage to flush it (it was her fish that she fed and watched for hours everyday). I want to get her another clown but dont want to get another in there if something is wrong with the tank, also not sure how my other clown will take to a new one since he was paired with the deceased one. Im still new to this hobby so please let me know if I'm over thinking this. Could a return pump not working for half a day cause this? And why did only that fish turn pale and act so frantically while the others acted sluggish.
P.S will update with water test when i get it done in a bit. But i checked it 2 days ago and it was fine.
So now I'm wondering if it was the return pump Failure or something else that killed my clown. Why would it only effect him so badly and not the other fish. I have noticed the little one has been really active the last 3 days swimming all over the place. Maybe something was wrong before and this was the final straw. My next problem is that this broke my daughters heart, she cried for an hour before she could muster up the courage to flush it (it was her fish that she fed and watched for hours everyday). I want to get her another clown but dont want to get another in there if something is wrong with the tank, also not sure how my other clown will take to a new one since he was paired with the deceased one. Im still new to this hobby so please let me know if I'm over thinking this. Could a return pump not working for half a day cause this? And why did only that fish turn pale and act so frantically while the others acted sluggish.
P.S will update with water test when i get it done in a bit. But i checked it 2 days ago and it was fine.
