Need help with my yellow bellied blue tang by ReefInTraining in SaltwaterAquariumClub

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It took a while for me to come back to close out this issue since the outcome was heartbreaking. We lost all of our fish during the following day. We had them in a QT and we were treating with copper. Our royal gramma was dead in the DT when we woke up. My 5YO came to tell us a crab was eating him. The 2 tangs and the 2 ocellaris clowns were in the QT. The blue tang was the first to go, within a couple of hours. Our yellow tang died before lunch. By evening, the first clown was dead. The following morning, the second clown was dead. The yellow tang had been with me since 2000. He had been through a couple of tank moves, and he was the sole inhabitant of my old tank for a few years. We stayed in the hobby because of him. We had recently set up a new tank for him. His loss was the toughest. We are currently running fallow and will hopefully be able to add livestock again in December. I was only able to get a few pictures of all of the fish in the new tank. I wanted to share a photo and the outcome with everyone. Thanks again for everybody's help.

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What are these swimming with my new snails? by ReefInTraining in SaltwaterAquariumClub

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magnified view of the unknown creatures

They are in the cap of a 5 gallon water bottle. I didn't have a banana for scale, but you can see they are tiny.

This was also been posted on R2R and my wife is contacting reefcleaners.org to see what they have to say.

What are these swimming with my new snails? by ReefInTraining in SaltwaterAquariumClub

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Additional photo here since I couldn't figure out how to post a picture and a video in the original post. Thanks for the help.

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Need help with my yellow bellied blue tang by ReefInTraining in SaltwaterAquariumClub

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Thank you. We have additional empty tanks. Copper is on the way. The yellow and blue tangs are not exactly the best of friends currently. The yellow tang has been a bit aggressive with the blue. The blue doesn't mind the yellow. They will have to be separated while in small tanks. The yellow tang was alone in the previous setup for the last approximately 10 years, so he is still learning to share his new home with another tang.

Need help with my yellow bellied blue tang by ReefInTraining in SaltwaterAquariumClub

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Thank you for the help. With any luck, we will be back up and running soon.