I posted a video she is eating like a champ. She doesn't have clamped fins. Doesn't have color loss. Doesn't have aggression towards her from other fish. My parameters are 10-15ppm nitrate. 0ppm ammonia and 0ppm nitrite. Temp 78 salinity 1.025-10.26
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Meant to ask - are both gills equally affected?I posted a video she is eating like a champ. She doesn't have clamped fins. Doesn't have color loss. Doesn't have aggression towards her from other fish. My parameters are 10-15ppm nitrate. 0ppm ammonia and 0ppm nitrite. Temp 78 salinity 1.025-10.26
The problem is there can be numerous causes for this. Bacteria, flukes, cryptocaryon, brooklynella, etc etc. Since the fish does not really have symptoms of brooklynella (yet) - or cryptocaryon - or velvet per se - I would concentrate on a bacterial infection or a fluke infection - with a strong consideration of an early stage of one of the other 3.It's not a mucus or anything any maybe it seems orangish yellowish because of the blue lights but she is definitely breathing faster than normal and was sitting on the sand bed but once I put the live brine in tank she went to chasing them and eating
My assumption is that in any case it is gill inflammation - and no matter what color it appears - there is no easy way to differentiate between the causes with that symptom. But - You're absolutely correct Karen - most people do not know they can temporarily adjust their lighting - without changing the whole program.You can adjust the lights on your Prime. Assuming you have saved your current lighting profile (if not then save it) then go into control section and bump up the whites (and lower the blue if you have to) then put it back to your original profile or just manually adjust it back to where you had the settings before.
The problem with doing pics/video under blue is that colours will change so when you say something "orange" it might not be orange but another colour and the blue light has altered it. Plus it's easier to tell if it's mucus or something else under white light.
Sadly your assumption is most likely correct. Gill always points to something that needs to be taken care of. Hopefully in this case it's something confined to the clown and easy resolved with some medication.My assumption is that in any case it is gill inflammation - and no matter what color it appears - there is no easy way to differentiate between the causes with that symptom. But - You're absolutely correct Karen - most people do not know they can temporarily adjust their lighting - without changing the whole program.