Sadly, both of my rams ended up dying. :( I have completely emptied and cleaned and sterilized my 45 gallon aquarium. And when I said completely emptied, I meant it. I took out the sand that I loved in this tank, but I wanted to be sure whatever killed my fish won't strike again. I cleaned the tank first with vinegar, then I rinsed and rinsed and rinsed, then cleaned with bleach, then rinsed and rinsed some more.
I will be moving my angelfish out of the new fish quarantine tank to this tank. I'll be moving the filter from that tank over as well. He will be all alone in this tank for a while until I know the new rocks are infested with good beneficial bacteria.
Also, some of our corals in our 55 gallon tank are looking bad. I think it's the water, but all the params are fine. Our flowerpot is dead (I know, they aren't easy to care for and can sometimes suddenly die), the finger leater is looking bad (but it looks like it can recover), and our frogspawn looks like it is past the point of no return. In an effort to save it, I moved the frogspawn to my pico. I hope it will do better, but I don't think it will.
Something happened in my 45 gallon freshwater tank. All five of my Schwartz cory cats and my three rosy barbs died, as did my last rummynose tetra. My two Bolivian rams do not look good either. I'm putting them in QT to try to save them.
I was so frustrated this morning when I woke up to find all my fish dead, I immediately moved the rams and drained the tank. I have been falling behind on water changes on this tank, and I'm sure the water is what was wrong. But it was so sudden; just yesterday everybody looked fine, so I'm not sure it was the water.
I hope I can save my rams. :(
I haven't been doing much with my other tanks recently as I've been focusing on my pico.
The diatoms I've been dealing with for the three weeks or so are nearly all gone. I added two small mushrooms and a small green star polyp frag from our ten gallon nano. A couple of the aiptasias have reappeared. I used Aiptasia X to get rid of them.