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Originally Posted by htismaqe
I just can't think of any pathogens that would completely consume internal tissue like that without ANY external signs.
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Well like I said, he had that eye get all puffy and cloudy before it caved in.
Like I said, I'm at a loss. I generally have a pretty good idea of what I'm dealing with and I just don't have anything here. Angels can be polyp eaters but I don't have corals that would've done that. I suppose he could've coasted too close to the Anemone and gotten stung, but I believe theirs is a neurotoxin that would've just dropped him dead.
The only other time I've been stumped like this was by a massive crustacean die-off about a year ago. In the span of 24 hours, all 4 peppermint shrimp, both camel shrimp, both cleaner shrimp and a coral banded, not to mention all 3 emerald crabs and who knows how many hermits (though not all) all crapped out on me.
My urchin was just fine. My corals were just fine. I ran the water tests and turned up nothing. If it were water issues, the Urchin would've shown it first anyway (he's the caged canary of my tank). I would have at least shown some burn-off in the SPS and closing up on the LPS and softies. I didn't have anything that would've gone after the shrimp (besides, the Coral Banded was in the sump due to bad behavior).
I never did figure it out. I waited a coupe months, put a couple new cleaner shrimp in and re-populated the hermits, as well as a couple more emerald crabs. About the only thing I can even begin to figure is a power surge or something that put a faint charge through the water; maybe the pump hiccuped. It could also have been a nitrogen blowoff, but I still think that would have shown up somewhere else. I had a Sea Hare die on me a couple months prior, but had he released a toxin it would've shown up immediately. The only other fish in there that was venemous was my fox-face (cool damn fish, highly recommended).
Damn baffling hobby sometimes.