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Your theory about the bad food is plausible to me, although I have never heard of anything like that. The only other possible explanation I can come up with is a nasty parasite or fish disease that came up out of nowhere. But, I know it's likely you would have seen some evidence of sick fish before they all died. Just to be safe, you might want to leave your tank fish-free for a month to be sure all traces of any possible parasite have disappeared. This is a tough one, sorry!
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If you had dead fish in there for a while and your ammonia is still at zero then I would be surprised.
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Did your pumps turn off? The things you lost (fish & cleaner shrimp) are heavy respirators and would die before the corals and other inverts if your oxygen levels dropped real low. Just one possibility...
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The clean up crew had the clown and shrimp that were visible completely eaten in a matter of 4 or 5 hours. I've tested everday and have yet to detect any amonia at all.
The pumps would have only been off for a couple of hours. I've had the pumps shut off for a short time like that without anything dying. If the power had gone off, the clocks and stuff around the house would have been off. Everything was normal when I woke up Sunday morning.
My friend keeps saying that he thinks it was an electrical surge that killed them, but I just don't believe it. The electricity would have killed all my shrimp and other clean up crew too, wouldn't it?
Kyle, TX
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Ok. It has now been over a week since all my fish died. I have yet to see even the smallest rise in amonia or anything.
The only thing I have noticed is a considerable rise in the amount of skimmate that is coming out of my skimmer. It fills up to about an inch deep in a week where it used to take like 3 weeks to get. Not really sure why it is doing this, but I guess its good?
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