Hi All
hope you are all dealing well  with heat !

ok... so today I did some test and all my permitters seemed fine so when I was at my LFS ( The Aquatic Design store in Balham ) to top up on water as i'm sure you all know this heat is draining on the water level haha
I saw a zoa that caught my eye and then a ToadStall coral,
I also need up getting a Royal Gramma, he wasn't as active as the other ones that seemed to jump up to the water a lot ( seemed like they wanted to jump a little ) so I went with this one who swam around and then cuddled up into a rock and seemed pretty chilled.

I took and uber home and acclimated everyone ( the corals and the little guy ) ( took about 45mins- hour  with him  and the corals an extra 15 mins )
when I added him in he seemed happy to go into the fish net and then when I went to scoop him out, we went into the water quite fine and then swam to a rock and huddle there until it came to my usual tank feeding time, I gave my usual mix of live copepods and dry pellets, he came out and ate a little and one of my clowns seemed to guide him around the tank from a distance and then returned back to the female.

so its been a couple hours , and I checked and he was hiding in one of the caves at the back of the tank and 30 mis later I found him at the bottom of the tank on the sand
on his side breathing .... help ?! is this normal , is it stress ? is he dying ? ive not had this before

everyone else seems fine and I one else seems, to be stressed out at all... just going about their lives like normal



TANK :
-Royal Gramma
-Goby and pistol shrimp
-Clown Pair
-3x zoa
-Green star P
- 3x other coral
- cleaner shrimp
-peppermint shrimp
- 2 small blue hermits
- 3 bumble bee's
-2 nasarius
- green emerald

Sorry to hear it didn’t make it.

I think your tank was a little small for a gramma but should not have been the  cause of death in such a short time.

Did you check the sg of the water it was in the bag with compared to your own? Some fish shops gravity can be way lower in fish only tanks compared with reef tanks. A big swing in salinity could be tha cause of death and a big sg change should be acclimated really slowly.

It may also have been stressed by the move. Stress can kill.

Bad luck, most likely lack of acclimation as paddone said.

If I can make a suggestion, next time use a quarantine tank. I use a foodsafe 30L plastic tub from Wilko's.

What you can do is make up water to match what's in the bag then gradually adjust it to match your tank.

Better still, keep him in there a while and observe him in case of parasites, check he's eating etc.

I keep a small bit of sponge in the main tank, so whenever I want to buy a fish I always have a bit I can put in the quarantine tank to act as the bio filter.
Equipment-wise, I just use a 25w heater and cheap powerhead from allpond.

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A different observation from me...

The surface looks completely still.  You need a lot more surface agitation, which will ensure there is enough oxygen in the water - lack of oxygen could be a cause of death.  The more fish, the quicker it would get used up.