My purple firefish has been acting very strange the last couple days. It almost looks like he's drunk or dazed like a boxer looks after he gets his clock cleaned. There are no spots, he is not breathing heavy, his skin still looks smooth and healthy, his color is still bright. He seems to be disoriented. He comes out at feeding time, but it seems like he either can't see the food or is confused.
My tank is a 10 gallon display with an 8 gallon sump that has been running for almost exactly a year. The only other fish in the tank is an ocellaris clown. As much as clowns have a rep for being jerks, mine really doesn't bully the firefish. They get along fairly well and have been housed together for probably 8 months. My parameters are as follows:
Salinity - 35 ppt
alk - 9 dkh
calcium - 440
ammonia & nitrite - 0
nitrate - 3 ppm
phosphate - 0.04 ppm
temp - 78.5-79
pH - 8.1 - 8.2
I started the tank using Red Sea black bucket and ran it according to their recommendations for a mixed reef for the first 10 months with alk at ~11ish. i recently made the switch to blue bucket because I want to get some sps. The change over has been done very gradually by mixing the two salts in proportions starting with mostly black bucket and transitioning to mostly blue bucket. The alk has not changed more than 0.5 dkh/week. I have finally gotten to all blue bucket and everything in the tank except the firefish seems to be very happy.
Significant changes recently have been I added another Current USA Orbit IC strip and another power head to increase the flow.
I have read through all of the stickies on the disease thread and nothing seems to fit. Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions?
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
My tank is a 10 gallon display with an 8 gallon sump that has been running for almost exactly a year. The only other fish in the tank is an ocellaris clown. As much as clowns have a rep for being jerks, mine really doesn't bully the firefish. They get along fairly well and have been housed together for probably 8 months. My parameters are as follows:
Salinity - 35 ppt
alk - 9 dkh
calcium - 440
ammonia & nitrite - 0
nitrate - 3 ppm
phosphate - 0.04 ppm
temp - 78.5-79
pH - 8.1 - 8.2
I started the tank using Red Sea black bucket and ran it according to their recommendations for a mixed reef for the first 10 months with alk at ~11ish. i recently made the switch to blue bucket because I want to get some sps. The change over has been done very gradually by mixing the two salts in proportions starting with mostly black bucket and transitioning to mostly blue bucket. The alk has not changed more than 0.5 dkh/week. I have finally gotten to all blue bucket and everything in the tank except the firefish seems to be very happy.
Significant changes recently have been I added another Current USA Orbit IC strip and another power head to increase the flow.
I have read through all of the stickies on the disease thread and nothing seems to fit. Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions?
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
