Mortality rate of Reef Fishes

gunzo · June 30, 2006

Similar to a post sometime ago that degenerated into a slugfest ..

Main question came about when I was doing stock taking .. and :ooh: :ooh: surprise surprise .. almost 80% of my fish from a single source :look: :look:

And when I reflected back .. I visit all over the island for rare fish .. so I did not just buy from 1 particular LFS but everywhere ..

I have a maroon that's been with me for a year now .. thru 2 crashes .. 2 tangs for 1/2 a year .. and these are the fishes that's not bought from the LFS..

1 blenny

3 gobies

1 randalli

2 blue eyes (2 fatalities and 1 drown)

2 triggers

1 wrasse

1 angel :wub:

1 Powder blue (died before I released from betta box)

alot of crusteceans and inverts ..

I think I have the following fatalities from elsewhere

5 yashias

4 blue eyes

1 sunburst

almost 10 firefishes

almost 10 purple firefishes

3 mandarins

2 powder blue

5 dispar

5 yellownose hi fin

:shock: :shock:

wow .. now tally up seems like I spent alot :shock:

And this was not counting my initial nano setup !! yikes !!

Any one else did a stock take and find similar occurences ?? Maybe our water conditions matches up thats why the higher survivability ????

anyone has equal success from most of the LFS ??

neokn · June 30, 2006

All my fish are from different LFS. I even have those that I bought from a certain LFS that pple here complaint like hell. I also have an imported angel from HK.

So far, I have alot of LS that die on me but that's because of my own stupidity (maybe also LFS fault, who knows). Anyway, I strongly believe in cycling the tank before anyone embark on the journey to keep rare and survival rate low fish like angels. I have 1 friend whom doesn't cycle his tank n was successful, bear in mind he only keep SPS n gobies with 2 dwarf angel.