So,
3 weeks ago we went down to the fish shop in search of a wrasse and my youngest fell in love with dotty the leopard wrasse.
First couple hours in the tank she spent burying himself in various spots I’m guessing due to the new environment and stress.
I went down to my LFS and grabbed some live copepods for her tiny mouth which she instantly came out and ate and has been feeding on everyday absolutely fine even swimming around the tank she shares with my adult clowns hunting them.
All was good and well up until a couple hours ago.
I noticed she was breathing really heavy with her mouth constantly half open, laying limp sideways on the sand bed. I even saw her attempt to dive into the sand 3 times but it was like she didn’t even have the energy to dig through it and gave up.
The way she is laying sideways limp you’d think he was dead (she isn’t, well not yet anyways)
I have a 114l tank.
PH 7.9
Amonnia and nitrites 0
Nitrates 26 (gradual decreased since she first entered)
The only change I could think is I turned my radions intensity up quite significantly as I’m preparing the tank for a few corals and it’s been running at 10% for the past week or so but was a bit higher the 2 weeks prior.
Do you think the intensity in light has caused this or that it could be down to something else?
3 weeks ago we went down to the fish shop in search of a wrasse and my youngest fell in love with dotty the leopard wrasse.
First couple hours in the tank she spent burying himself in various spots I’m guessing due to the new environment and stress.
I went down to my LFS and grabbed some live copepods for her tiny mouth which she instantly came out and ate and has been feeding on everyday absolutely fine even swimming around the tank she shares with my adult clowns hunting them.
All was good and well up until a couple hours ago.
I noticed she was breathing really heavy with her mouth constantly half open, laying limp sideways on the sand bed. I even saw her attempt to dive into the sand 3 times but it was like she didn’t even have the energy to dig through it and gave up.
The way she is laying sideways limp you’d think he was dead (she isn’t, well not yet anyways)
I have a 114l tank.
PH 7.9
Amonnia and nitrites 0
Nitrates 26 (gradual decreased since she first entered)
The only change I could think is I turned my radions intensity up quite significantly as I’m preparing the tank for a few corals and it’s been running at 10% for the past week or so but was a bit higher the 2 weeks prior.
Do you think the intensity in light has caused this or that it could be down to something else?
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