Aquarium Parameters:
Aquarium type: Fish-only + snails
Aquarium water volume: 13.5 G (11 G actual volume)
Filtration type: Media basket with filter floss, carbon, and biological media
Lighting: Fluval evo 13.5 Stock Lights
How long has the aquarium been established?: 5 weeks since today
Here's a FTS:
Water quality:
Temperature : 80 F
pH: 7 (API test strip)
Salinity / specific gravity: 1.026
Ammonia: 0 ppm (API)
Nitrite: 0 ppm (API)
Nitrate: ~5 ppm (API)
Phosphorus: ~0 ppm (API; unable to read low ranges with my current kit)
Copper: N/A, but I didn't put any copper in
Hey R2R. Newbie just getting into the hobby, and I'd like some help figuring out what is killing my yellow clown goby.
Some history: I got him 2 weeks ago from LFS on the day they got it shipped in. It came in with some frayed fins and wasn't responsive to food for the first 2-3 days. But after that, he became a very voracious eater. He got along well with my firefish, and I've been feeding them both LRS Reef Frenzy as well as PE mysis pellets daily. Ever since I've had him I noticed that his belly was very pinched, and I figured with enough feedings he'd get nice and fat.
A week ago, he disappeared from my display, and I found him in my overflow. It turns out the grates were small enough for him to pass through. I couldn't get a net to bring him back to my main display and ended up having to use my hands to reach into the cramped chamber. I mention this because I think it was a very stressful process for him. It took a long time and I think I might have scraped him while I was bringing him up.
The next day he broke out with what I presumed was lympho; he had yellow warty bumps all over his fins and head, but his behavior was completely unchanged. My firefish was unaffected. Pic for reference:
I upped his feeding to twice a day with LRS and did a water change. He seemed fine. He started having more lesions throughout but his behavior was still the same. I did catch him flashing a little bit.
Here's where I'm confused. I woke up 2-3 days after his breakout, and found him looking like this.
Still no changes in behavior. Now my firefish is starting to have some white spots on his top fin, and was exhibiting some flashing. I know one way to distinguish between Ich and lympho is with how long it took for the spots to disappear. For my clown goby, these spots went away the day they showed up. This made me confused as I thought ich trophonts stay on for ~3 days. By the end of the day, both my ycg and my firefish's white spots had mostly disappeared. My firefish never got any more spots and he's still doing fine today.
My clown goby got more white spots over the next few days but they disappeared the same day as well. It looked like they were getting shaken off as he swam. Yesterday I noticed he looked paler, but his behavior seemed fine. His lesions were shrinking and I could barely see them on his head and fins. But today I woke and found him basically moribund. He can't really swim against any current and ends up twirling around. He refuses to eat, his breathing rate is 68, and he does not seem to be gasping for air. I don't really see any white spots on him either. My inverts and firefish are unaffected. I have a vid here:
So yeah, I'm almost positive he's on his way out. The purpose of this long post is because I'm still not sure what is killing my fish. I've been told he has lympho, which I thought wasn't very dangerous. And while he had white spots, they disappeared in less than 24 hours. I'm not ruling out Ich in his gills and I don't know what Ich looks like when it's end-stage. I also suspect internal parasites, as he never put on weight despite all the feedings, but I also didn't see any stringy white poop. If anyone knows what this could look like, please let me know! This all happened within 7 days, so I'm a little worried for my other fish. I'm considering putting my tank through a fallow period as I set up my QT system, but I also don't want to do that unless it's indicated. Thanks!
Aquarium type: Fish-only + snails
Aquarium water volume: 13.5 G (11 G actual volume)
Filtration type: Media basket with filter floss, carbon, and biological media
Lighting: Fluval evo 13.5 Stock Lights
How long has the aquarium been established?: 5 weeks since today
Here's a FTS:
Water quality:
Temperature : 80 F
pH: 7 (API test strip)
Salinity / specific gravity: 1.026
Ammonia: 0 ppm (API)
Nitrite: 0 ppm (API)
Nitrate: ~5 ppm (API)
Phosphorus: ~0 ppm (API; unable to read low ranges with my current kit)
Copper: N/A, but I didn't put any copper in
Hey R2R. Newbie just getting into the hobby, and I'd like some help figuring out what is killing my yellow clown goby.
Some history: I got him 2 weeks ago from LFS on the day they got it shipped in. It came in with some frayed fins and wasn't responsive to food for the first 2-3 days. But after that, he became a very voracious eater. He got along well with my firefish, and I've been feeding them both LRS Reef Frenzy as well as PE mysis pellets daily. Ever since I've had him I noticed that his belly was very pinched, and I figured with enough feedings he'd get nice and fat.
A week ago, he disappeared from my display, and I found him in my overflow. It turns out the grates were small enough for him to pass through. I couldn't get a net to bring him back to my main display and ended up having to use my hands to reach into the cramped chamber. I mention this because I think it was a very stressful process for him. It took a long time and I think I might have scraped him while I was bringing him up.
The next day he broke out with what I presumed was lympho; he had yellow warty bumps all over his fins and head, but his behavior was completely unchanged. My firefish was unaffected. Pic for reference:
I upped his feeding to twice a day with LRS and did a water change. He seemed fine. He started having more lesions throughout but his behavior was still the same. I did catch him flashing a little bit.
Here's where I'm confused. I woke up 2-3 days after his breakout, and found him looking like this.
Still no changes in behavior. Now my firefish is starting to have some white spots on his top fin, and was exhibiting some flashing. I know one way to distinguish between Ich and lympho is with how long it took for the spots to disappear. For my clown goby, these spots went away the day they showed up. This made me confused as I thought ich trophonts stay on for ~3 days. By the end of the day, both my ycg and my firefish's white spots had mostly disappeared. My firefish never got any more spots and he's still doing fine today.
My clown goby got more white spots over the next few days but they disappeared the same day as well. It looked like they were getting shaken off as he swam. Yesterday I noticed he looked paler, but his behavior seemed fine. His lesions were shrinking and I could barely see them on his head and fins. But today I woke and found him basically moribund. He can't really swim against any current and ends up twirling around. He refuses to eat, his breathing rate is 68, and he does not seem to be gasping for air. I don't really see any white spots on him either. My inverts and firefish are unaffected. I have a vid here:
So yeah, I'm almost positive he's on his way out. The purpose of this long post is because I'm still not sure what is killing my fish. I've been told he has lympho, which I thought wasn't very dangerous. And while he had white spots, they disappeared in less than 24 hours. I'm not ruling out Ich in his gills and I don't know what Ich looks like when it's end-stage. I also suspect internal parasites, as he never put on weight despite all the feedings, but I also didn't see any stringy white poop. If anyone knows what this could look like, please let me know! This all happened within 7 days, so I'm a little worried for my other fish. I'm considering putting my tank through a fallow period as I set up my QT system, but I also don't want to do that unless it's indicated. Thanks!