- Joined
- May 30, 2017
- Messages
- 617
- Reaction score
- 2,463
You may be dealing with velvet ... are there other fish in the office tank? Can you set up a quarantine tank with copper or Chloroquine Phosphate for them if there are? Velvet moves fast . . .
~Bruce
The clowns were acting funny in the bag from the LFS, so likely something in their water. There were originally 3 of them...when the lfs was bagging the fish, they moved a rock to reveal the third one as snack. It looked like ich more than velvet, visually... but regardless of which, it was probably already internal to the fish. Both had hard time breathing and swimming.
The good news is that my tank at work is pretty much more QT / half-way house to my DTs at home. No other fish other than a red mandarin that I decided to rescue (saw her completely emaciated at another store yesterday). The mandarin is doing fine.
At this point, the office tank will run almost fallow save the mandarin, which are pretty sturdy against common things like ich and maybe velvet. I may just plug in my UV sterilizer and let it run for a month or two as a precaution...