So I have been battling ich on my Hippo basically since I got it and botched TTM. Anyways, I had it beat for a while, then it scratched its eye scrambling into cover which caused it to break out right before my vacation. Lfs took the fish and treated it, fixed the eye and everything. Shortly after I got it back, it broke out again. Presumably due to the stress of moving. It cleared up after a couple days and was fine for about a week. Now it has what looks like a torn fin and scratches on its abdominal area. That, or a handful of large ich spots. It's hard to tell this fish runs and hides anytime I get near the glass. I'm thinking scratches because it's new hidey hole is wedged tight in between some rock and the glass, and the marks are on the side it has toward the rock. Even my lfs tells me this is the most skittish Hippo they have ever seen, even before I bought the dang thing.
So what, if anything can I do to get this fish to chill out? I feed it nori, usually eats a sheet every 1.5 days, brine, spirulina, mysis, omega one flake and sometimes it takes the vitalis algae pellets. Plenty of hiding spots. It's fine until it gets stressed by hurting itself from being so dang spooky all the time. Not like it's housed with anything overly aggressive. An eel that sits in a cave until it's feeding time. A marine betta that casually floats around the tank. A tiny maroon clown that rarely ventures far from the skimmer intake, and one black Molly.
I'm really debating just calling it quits and surrendering it to my lfs. If I can catch it, it's like blue, greased lightning.
It's also frustrating because my new security camera shows this fish cheerily swimming about, doing tang things, until I come into view of the tank, then poof, gone. Unfortunately resolution is too low to catch any details of spots.
So what, if anything can I do to get this fish to chill out? I feed it nori, usually eats a sheet every 1.5 days, brine, spirulina, mysis, omega one flake and sometimes it takes the vitalis algae pellets. Plenty of hiding spots. It's fine until it gets stressed by hurting itself from being so dang spooky all the time. Not like it's housed with anything overly aggressive. An eel that sits in a cave until it's feeding time. A marine betta that casually floats around the tank. A tiny maroon clown that rarely ventures far from the skimmer intake, and one black Molly.
I'm really debating just calling it quits and surrendering it to my lfs. If I can catch it, it's like blue, greased lightning.
It's also frustrating because my new security camera shows this fish cheerily swimming about, doing tang things, until I come into view of the tank, then poof, gone. Unfortunately resolution is too low to catch any details of spots.