How Many Fishes Do you Lose?

[marcvelous]

Hi All,

I am trying to determine what is the common mortality rate of the livestock amongst reefers for their tanks.

Please try and include the reason, if you know, for the lost. E.g. diseases, injury, suicide, etc.

By the way, how do you determine what is due to natural attrition and what is unnatural deaths which you cannot explain (i.e. no signs of illness or injury)

Has anyone managed to raise any fishes from baby to full adult sized?

Thanks!

[mAriNe_enthusiast]

White spot is a killer....

realli kill mani fishes of mine when i first started out

argh..........

[kschew1498]

sometime they just refuse to eat!

[tineng]

my boxfish die becasue of whitespot and my bi-color dottyback died because got stuck in the internal overflow.....

My blue tang, emporar and clown are all baby when i brought them. they seem to be growing but I guess have to wait for a year to see if i can raise them to adulthood....

[Domino]

I've started not long ago... Just two months ago. I've got a 4x1.5x1.5.

So far I've got 1 coral banded shrimp, two astrea snails and 5 blue green chromis and some green star polyps (soft coral that came with the LR).

I'm really happy because I've not lost anything yet let's hope it lasts!

[dravan]

fishes normally die when u juz bought them from LFS... due to improper handling or cyande poisoning... and not being used to ur aquarium conditions....

[ervine]

what about those that dissapear? MIA is the worse.. donno what happened to them..