My Dwarf Coral Beauty from Live Aquaria has been acting strange since I introduced him to my quarantine tank Tuesday afternoon. Before adding him to the quarantine tank, I slowly acclimated him using the floating method described here: https://www.liveaquaria.com/general/general.cfm?general_pagesid=665. However, as you can see in the following video I took Wednesday morning (), he's kept to the upper left corner of the tank since day one, gently swimming into the corner at a 45 degree angle on his side. He hasn't been responding to feeding. I started cupramine and general cure treatment on Tuesday, gave a 20% water change last night, and administered second doses of cupramine and general cure this morning. Still no change.
My first thought was ammonia spike or lack of oxygen. The ammonia level was a bit high (.2), so I did an ammo lock treatment Tuesday night and then a 25% water change on Wednesday evening. I've had constant flow across the top of the water from a wave maker and my filter's return. So it water agitation doesn't seem to be the issue. Just in case ammonia / PH was still causing problems, I gradually dropped the water temperature to 73 degrees F from 78 degrees F last evening. I used Tetra AquaSafe Plus Water Conditioner / Dechlorinator and then brought the salinity up to a specific density of 1.026.
Any thoughts or advice as to what might be going on with the little guy? Live Aquaria didn't describe him as a deep water Coral Beauty, so it doesn't seem like decompression would be to blame. I've read about bloated stomach from internal parasites. But I'm not sure if these are the right symptoms or not. Also, if that were the case, I would think that I'd see a difference after dosing the general cure and cupramine, unless of course it's too late. I get that he's probably stressed, but don't see how that would explain the symptoms without something else going on.
My first thought was ammonia spike or lack of oxygen. The ammonia level was a bit high (.2), so I did an ammo lock treatment Tuesday night and then a 25% water change on Wednesday evening. I've had constant flow across the top of the water from a wave maker and my filter's return. So it water agitation doesn't seem to be the issue. Just in case ammonia / PH was still causing problems, I gradually dropped the water temperature to 73 degrees F from 78 degrees F last evening. I used Tetra AquaSafe Plus Water Conditioner / Dechlorinator and then brought the salinity up to a specific density of 1.026.
Any thoughts or advice as to what might be going on with the little guy? Live Aquaria didn't describe him as a deep water Coral Beauty, so it doesn't seem like decompression would be to blame. I've read about bloated stomach from internal parasites. But I'm not sure if these are the right symptoms or not. Also, if that were the case, I would think that I'd see a difference after dosing the general cure and cupramine, unless of course it's too late. I get that he's probably stressed, but don't see how that would explain the symptoms without something else going on.
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