Anybody ever run in to one of these? I have.
A couple years ago I bought two used four foot 30 gallon tanks from my lfs. They were reef ready so they patched them up for me.Of course I cleaned them like mad before bringing them into my fishroom. The first occupants in one= an 80.00 pair of giant bettas I purchased online. They did well for a couple of months and then one day the female stopped eating, then had red lesions on her side, then died. Within days. About a week later the male did the same thing. I was heartbroken but had no assumption as to why this happened.
Then I had two spawns of splendens. One delta, one crowntail. I put the crowns in one tank, the delta in the other after they were one month old. The crowns did great but the deltas just did not, so I eventually jarred all of them, they were always a little "odd" and I assumed the line was overbred.
Then I got a pair of wild caught kapuas. I put them in the four footer that the deltas had been in (after washing,of course) low and behold....they died even though I gave them everything in the world.
Last year I took one of the tanks and put it on top of my entertainment center for my kribs. When I set it up I remember thinking "If these guys die, I know it's the tank", but they didn't. Whew.
So about the same time my smaragdina spawned and when the fry were a month or so old I moved them into the remaining four footer just before I switched rooms with my daughter earlier this year (I specifically remember that because when a friend of mine and myself were moving the tank from room to room I remember thinking "gee I couldn't have waited a week to put these guys in here?!" )
Anyway,that was just a few months ago all was well up until about 8 weeks ago. I noticed my now full grown smaragdina were very clampy. I figured they had some sort of internal parasite from me giving them live blackworms
so I began treating them. None of them were dying, or even near it, they were just....clampy 
...for over a month. I never,ever give my babies blackworms, only the wild caught fish get those. I figured it was poor judgement and too much for their systems.
So last week they started looking REALLY bad and I began treating them AGAIN. Only this time, it was bad. Within a day they started dropping like flies. 10,15 a day. It was so frustrating. They would be otherwise beautiful, yet dead,and some would have those red gashes. It was only when I saw the gashes that it all came rushing back to me. Everything I had ever put in that tank has freakin' died. Everything.
I took the smaragdina out a couple days ago, immediately after putting two and two together. I moved them to a twenty and threw away that four foot tank. They look 1,000X better already. It's crazy.
I wanted to smash the tank in to smithereens so that no one would ever use it, plus to take out some frustration.
Anybody ever have an experience like this?
A couple years ago I bought two used four foot 30 gallon tanks from my lfs. They were reef ready so they patched them up for me.Of course I cleaned them like mad before bringing them into my fishroom. The first occupants in one= an 80.00 pair of giant bettas I purchased online. They did well for a couple of months and then one day the female stopped eating, then had red lesions on her side, then died. Within days. About a week later the male did the same thing. I was heartbroken but had no assumption as to why this happened.
Then I had two spawns of splendens. One delta, one crowntail. I put the crowns in one tank, the delta in the other after they were one month old. The crowns did great but the deltas just did not, so I eventually jarred all of them, they were always a little "odd" and I assumed the line was overbred.
Then I got a pair of wild caught kapuas. I put them in the four footer that the deltas had been in (after washing,of course) low and behold....they died even though I gave them everything in the world.
Last year I took one of the tanks and put it on top of my entertainment center for my kribs. When I set it up I remember thinking "If these guys die, I know it's the tank", but they didn't. Whew.
So about the same time my smaragdina spawned and when the fry were a month or so old I moved them into the remaining four footer just before I switched rooms with my daughter earlier this year (I specifically remember that because when a friend of mine and myself were moving the tank from room to room I remember thinking "gee I couldn't have waited a week to put these guys in here?!" )
Anyway,that was just a few months ago all was well up until about 8 weeks ago. I noticed my now full grown smaragdina were very clampy. I figured they had some sort of internal parasite from me giving them live blackworms
so I began treating them. None of them were dying, or even near it, they were just....clampy ...for over a month. I never,ever give my babies blackworms, only the wild caught fish get those. I figured it was poor judgement and too much for their systems.So last week they started looking REALLY bad and I began treating them AGAIN. Only this time, it was bad. Within a day they started dropping like flies. 10,15 a day. It was so frustrating. They would be otherwise beautiful, yet dead,and some would have those red gashes. It was only when I saw the gashes that it all came rushing back to me. Everything I had ever put in that tank has freakin' died. Everything.
I took the smaragdina out a couple days ago, immediately after putting two and two together. I moved them to a twenty and threw away that four foot tank. They look 1,000X better already. It's crazy.
I wanted to smash the tank in to smithereens so that no one would ever use it, plus to take out some frustration.
Anybody ever have an experience like this?
), 3 about 4 years ago ( 
), and the strangest was when my dad's two were both crushed by the same rock many years ago 
I've killed four in the past few years. Each one with chlormaines from my tap water, even though I dechlorinate. Every water change was like a death defying event, but eventually...they'd turn white and die after one if it was too large of a change.
My 55g has had filter troubles for months despite soo many clean outs and what not. It's a whacking great filter too. The downside being it's part of the tank itself so cleaning means going up to my armpit in sludgy type water. 
Ok so now thinking this was wierd I pull carefully at the glass and lo and behold it's a whole piece with the corners removed, obviously professionally. The question is, how did it get there!! I mean, under over 20 inches of filtration paraphenalia and water! 
Put the filter back together and it's working very well now although the water in the tank is now a lovely colour from doing it all. 
I was just thinking about your other spawns a little while ago.
