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Hi Everyone,
I've had two clownfish for about 6 months. The larger and more dominant one has been fading in and out of color rapidly for the last few days and sticking to the sand bed. It will look solid in color at one moment, then I will check a couple hours later and will look extremely pale, almost translucent, then back to looking normal a few hours after that. I've been looking through pictures of things like brooklynella and it doesn't look like that at all. Its skin surface still looks healthy and the paleness is uniform across the entire body. Is this stress related or could it be transitioning? It doesn't appear to be gasping like something is wrong with its gills. Just appears to be tired. All of the other fish appear fine. The other clown looks normal but is concerned and keeps checking in on the other, sometimes mimicking.
I plan on doing a 25% WC today and changing out the Purit. The only outside factor I can think of is that I had the lights on a dimmer setting a couple days ago while acclimating 2 new frags.
Water params:
Temp=78
Sal=1.024
pH=7.7 (I've been struggling to get this up)
Alk=9.2
Calc=445
NH3=0
NO2=0
NO3=~15
PO4=~.03-.06
I've had two clownfish for about 6 months. The larger and more dominant one has been fading in and out of color rapidly for the last few days and sticking to the sand bed. It will look solid in color at one moment, then I will check a couple hours later and will look extremely pale, almost translucent, then back to looking normal a few hours after that. I've been looking through pictures of things like brooklynella and it doesn't look like that at all. Its skin surface still looks healthy and the paleness is uniform across the entire body. Is this stress related or could it be transitioning? It doesn't appear to be gasping like something is wrong with its gills. Just appears to be tired. All of the other fish appear fine. The other clown looks normal but is concerned and keeps checking in on the other, sometimes mimicking.
I plan on doing a 25% WC today and changing out the Purit. The only outside factor I can think of is that I had the lights on a dimmer setting a couple days ago while acclimating 2 new frags.
Water params:
Temp=78
Sal=1.024
pH=7.7 (I've been struggling to get this up)
Alk=9.2
Calc=445
NH3=0
NO2=0
NO3=~15
PO4=~.03-.06