HELP
First quarantine fish....small captive bred coral beauty.
20g with HOB filter and wavemaker for air. Used main tank water. Added Dr Tim’s and 3 seeded bioballs from LFS instead of filter carbon. An hour before slowly acclimating fish including water swaps over 1:20 cuz bagged water was 1.027 and tank was 1.024.
Was fine yesterday...even ate a bit. Still happy early this morning.
Around 10 am this morning 8 found it in an upright 4” pvc tube laying down...thought maybe trapped ammonia or something in there.
It’s been free since then and was randomly swimming a bit. Very weak.
Ammonia .1? (red sea kit) seachem Badge is yellow (safe)
Nitrites .2
Nitrates 4
Display is barely cycled but clowns are all fine in there last 3 weeks.
Update at noon....talked to LFS and and a friend...did 30% water change. LFS said it was in the store a month so likely not a disease and if it’s stressed, not to move it or disturb it any more after doing the water. But how long?? It’s in the laundry room so I did the water change and left the lights off and door shut.
Retested water just now...ammonia looks lowered but since day 1 we’ve never been able to determine it’s a zero with any clarity...lighting and coloring problems...even compared to freshly mixed water.
Fish is just laying on the bottom....still gasping...no discoloration at gills or anything unusual.
First quarantine fish....small captive bred coral beauty.
20g with HOB filter and wavemaker for air. Used main tank water. Added Dr Tim’s and 3 seeded bioballs from LFS instead of filter carbon. An hour before slowly acclimating fish including water swaps over 1:20 cuz bagged water was 1.027 and tank was 1.024.
Was fine yesterday...even ate a bit. Still happy early this morning.
Around 10 am this morning 8 found it in an upright 4” pvc tube laying down...thought maybe trapped ammonia or something in there.
It’s been free since then and was randomly swimming a bit. Very weak.
Ammonia .1? (red sea kit) seachem Badge is yellow (safe)
Nitrites .2
Nitrates 4
Display is barely cycled but clowns are all fine in there last 3 weeks.
Update at noon....talked to LFS and and a friend...did 30% water change. LFS said it was in the store a month so likely not a disease and if it’s stressed, not to move it or disturb it any more after doing the water. But how long?? It’s in the laundry room so I did the water change and left the lights off and door shut.
Retested water just now...ammonia looks lowered but since day 1 we’ve never been able to determine it’s a zero with any clarity...lighting and coloring problems...even compared to freshly mixed water.
Fish is just laying on the bottom....still gasping...no discoloration at gills or anything unusual.
Last edited: