Hello, I’m new to this, but I bought a gem tang Thursday along with a Midas blenny and a mandarin fish. I dripped the gem and mandarin together because they had just come in from shipment to my LFS. I dripped the blenny separate because he was already in the store for a while.
Yesterday, I saw that my gem (small), was stuck to the side of my MP40. I immediately unplugged and pulled him off, quarantined him in a small container clipped to the side of my aquarium. He was laying on his side gasping for air for an hour or so, but then got upright again. Once he was upright I thought I should put him back in the tank so I did. Woke up today and found him dead and also the mandarin fish.
I’m guessing these are unrelated? Or are they related? Blenny is great, could it be illness? I feel terrible. What else could I have done?
water
ammonia: 0 / nitrite: 0 / nitrate: 10
Ph: 8.0
Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 77
Yesterday, I saw that my gem (small), was stuck to the side of my MP40. I immediately unplugged and pulled him off, quarantined him in a small container clipped to the side of my aquarium. He was laying on his side gasping for air for an hour or so, but then got upright again. Once he was upright I thought I should put him back in the tank so I did. Woke up today and found him dead and also the mandarin fish.
I’m guessing these are unrelated? Or are they related? Blenny is great, could it be illness? I feel terrible. What else could I have done?
water
ammonia: 0 / nitrite: 0 / nitrate: 10
Ph: 8.0
Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 77