Fish Dying- Inverts thriving?
So I am an experienced fishkeeper, had many tanks, worked in aquarium shops, read all the books, blah blah blah. I bought the new Fluval Edge and, yes, I am making it a nano reef. I am awaiting the LED lights (8500K) but for now I am just cycling and checking it out. I have had 2 damsels, 6 pounds "live" sand, 10 pounds live rock in it for about two weeks. Everything has been hunky dory. All tests consistently report 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 0 nitrate, PH 8.2 Feeding frozen brine. On the live rock I bought there is tons of life- feather dusters, starfish, aiptasia, bristleworms, bad creatures, good creatures, whatever. My concern is that after I introduced 2 blue legged hermit crabs, 2 astria snails and a very small peppermint shrimp, the damsels are freaking out. The domino died and the dotted is hiding under a rock breathing rapidly, and not eating. All test still are at great levels. At first the damsels were really excited (yes I am anthropomorphizing them, but they seemed stoked to have tankmates) Snails are cruising, shrimp is cruising, hermit crabs are cruising and all the organisms from the live rock are still flourishing…. Why are my fish not happy? My next step was to catch up the damsels and introduce a little pair of perculas from my LFS with the anemone they they have attached to- but since my damsels are suffering, I figure I better wait. I don’t know what else to test for/change/put in additives/….except for lighting, which is coming in the mail and shouldn’t affect the damsels… Any ideas what would kill damsels, yet leave all delicate inverts thriving? -J
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Fish Dying- Inverts thriving?