gray808
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Last night I noticed my smaller, male clown acting a bit weird.
It's bonded to a larger female, and usually spend a lot of time near each other.
Evenings they tend to find a corner and kinda nestle together near the bottom.
Yesterday night, I looked in, and the smaller one had found a tiny, and I mean really tiny: he barely fit, hole in the rock and had kinda wedged itself in. I put my hand in the tank to see if it was ok, and it immediately dashed out, and behind the rock. And then was chased somewhat aggressively by the larger clown. I'd never seen them show any aggression to each other, or anything else, really.
Eventually, it found a corner and kinda settled down, but it kinda looked ... I dunno... not right. I went to bed and got up and now he seems fine? Swimming around, eating like a pig when fed.
Water params look good, I'd just run a full gamut earlier in the day: Salinity: 1.024, T: 79.0, pH: 8.1, dKH: 7.2, NH3: 0, NO3: 11ppb, Phosphorus: 7ppn, Ca: 493, Phosphate: 0.09ppm, Mg: 900. dKH is a little low, as is Magnesium, and Calcium perhaps a bit high, both likely mitigated by a 5g water change earlier in the day (post-readings).
I'd tried adding an LTA in the days before, which didn't go well, said LTA is now in another tank.
I'd added several small Zoa frags in the weeks before, but they didn't seem to have any effect.
A few hours before this behavior, I'd dipped and added a lavender mushroom (was a bit stressed from shipment, and had the stringy stuff, which has now mostly retracted), as well as some small frags: Taro Tree, Neon Pineapple Tree, Blue Cespitularia, White Pom Pom Xenia. All of those seem fine, one of the trees is fully erect, the other is still kinda slumped.
No new fish, no changes in lighting, no obvious wounds, spots, or anything else that would physically tell me the fish is sick.
All fish went through a full QT before they went in the tank (months ago), though the corals have just gotten a rinse in Bayer then Revive before going into the tank, no bag water allowed in, and the plugs they are on scrubbed with a toothbrush.
Is this something any of you have seen before?
Hopefully, just them being weird?
--Gray
It's bonded to a larger female, and usually spend a lot of time near each other.
Evenings they tend to find a corner and kinda nestle together near the bottom.
Yesterday night, I looked in, and the smaller one had found a tiny, and I mean really tiny: he barely fit, hole in the rock and had kinda wedged itself in. I put my hand in the tank to see if it was ok, and it immediately dashed out, and behind the rock. And then was chased somewhat aggressively by the larger clown. I'd never seen them show any aggression to each other, or anything else, really.
Eventually, it found a corner and kinda settled down, but it kinda looked ... I dunno... not right. I went to bed and got up and now he seems fine? Swimming around, eating like a pig when fed.
Water params look good, I'd just run a full gamut earlier in the day: Salinity: 1.024, T: 79.0, pH: 8.1, dKH: 7.2, NH3: 0, NO3: 11ppb, Phosphorus: 7ppn, Ca: 493, Phosphate: 0.09ppm, Mg: 900. dKH is a little low, as is Magnesium, and Calcium perhaps a bit high, both likely mitigated by a 5g water change earlier in the day (post-readings).
I'd tried adding an LTA in the days before, which didn't go well, said LTA is now in another tank.
I'd added several small Zoa frags in the weeks before, but they didn't seem to have any effect.
A few hours before this behavior, I'd dipped and added a lavender mushroom (was a bit stressed from shipment, and had the stringy stuff, which has now mostly retracted), as well as some small frags: Taro Tree, Neon Pineapple Tree, Blue Cespitularia, White Pom Pom Xenia. All of those seem fine, one of the trees is fully erect, the other is still kinda slumped.
No new fish, no changes in lighting, no obvious wounds, spots, or anything else that would physically tell me the fish is sick.
All fish went through a full QT before they went in the tank (months ago), though the corals have just gotten a rinse in Bayer then Revive before going into the tank, no bag water allowed in, and the plugs they are on scrubbed with a toothbrush.
Is this something any of you have seen before?
Hopefully, just them being weird?
--Gray
