Hello!
Yesterday i brought home a pair of small Ocellaris Clownfish from my LFS. These are my very first fish, and I am new to this hobby. After temperature acclimating them (the water in the bag and the water in my quarantine were both at 1.025), I dropped them into the quarantine. They were a little stressed at first, but calmed down. I fed them a little over an hour later, to see if they would feed that soon, and they rushed to the food and ate. One is a little bigger than the other, so he ate a lot more.
My quarantine is a 16 gallon tank, with a Tunze Comline 3162 using Seachem Matrix as filteration, and I am dosing Seachem Stability and Prime. (I asked Seachem if this was going to be safe and okay, and they said absolutely). I also have an air stone in there, some pvc and a plastic aquarium tree.
They seemed to calm down, and this morning they had started hiding inside the plant. Now, after I tunred off the lights, I walked back to look at them a couple hours later, and turned on the lights to observe them. One of them (the bigger one), was laying at the botton in the corner, so I freaked a little and knocked carefully on the glass to see if he would react, and he did. He acted like I just woke him up, haha. But then he started to seem very stressed, and is now constanly swimming at the surface, both sideways and normal, like he is desperate to get out! So I am freaking out, thinking something is wrong.
I have read the picture guide to diseases many times, read about diseases, but he seems fine, no visual things except for a few scares on his first white stripe.
I tested for ammonia this afternoon (9 hours ago as of this post), and it was at 0. I fed them around that time, the small one didnt eat, the bigger one ate one or two pellets.
Is this normal? For him swimming like that? Anything I can do? The water is a bit cloudy now as well for some reason.
Any tips would be greatful!
PS: I do have some medication on hand, PraziPro, Methylene Blue, some JBL copper medication, some for gill flukes etc.
Thanks!
Yesterday i brought home a pair of small Ocellaris Clownfish from my LFS. These are my very first fish, and I am new to this hobby. After temperature acclimating them (the water in the bag and the water in my quarantine were both at 1.025), I dropped them into the quarantine. They were a little stressed at first, but calmed down. I fed them a little over an hour later, to see if they would feed that soon, and they rushed to the food and ate. One is a little bigger than the other, so he ate a lot more.
My quarantine is a 16 gallon tank, with a Tunze Comline 3162 using Seachem Matrix as filteration, and I am dosing Seachem Stability and Prime. (I asked Seachem if this was going to be safe and okay, and they said absolutely). I also have an air stone in there, some pvc and a plastic aquarium tree.
They seemed to calm down, and this morning they had started hiding inside the plant. Now, after I tunred off the lights, I walked back to look at them a couple hours later, and turned on the lights to observe them. One of them (the bigger one), was laying at the botton in the corner, so I freaked a little and knocked carefully on the glass to see if he would react, and he did. He acted like I just woke him up, haha. But then he started to seem very stressed, and is now constanly swimming at the surface, both sideways and normal, like he is desperate to get out! So I am freaking out, thinking something is wrong.
I have read the picture guide to diseases many times, read about diseases, but he seems fine, no visual things except for a few scares on his first white stripe.
I tested for ammonia this afternoon (9 hours ago as of this post), and it was at 0. I fed them around that time, the small one didnt eat, the bigger one ate one or two pellets.
Is this normal? For him swimming like that? Anything I can do? The water is a bit cloudy now as well for some reason.
Any tips would be greatful!
PS: I do have some medication on hand, PraziPro, Methylene Blue, some JBL copper medication, some for gill flukes etc.
Thanks!