I'm not sure what is going on in my tank. We just got back from a 1 week trip where I trialed a Neptune AFS to feed the fish pellets and freeze dried brine shrimp. Typically I feed them frozen mysis and formula 2. Some of them didn't seem super interested in the pellets.
I checked in on the fish over a Webcam while gone every one in a while. I typically saw all of the fish and know for a fact 2 days before we got back I saw both anthias. In the 4 days since we've been back, I haven't seen one of the clowns and 1 anthia has disappeared. Last night the yellow tang looked to be breathing really fast and today he is hovering in the top 1/3 of the water column. I'm not sure what's going on.
I cranked the powerheads up and am letting the skimmer overflow thinking that maybe there was an algae/bacterial bloom from excess food from the auto feeder. I also did a 45g water change last night to try me stem the tide of unknown even though my parameters all seemed to check out.
I highly doubt this is disease. The fish show no outward symptoms other than the fast breathing. They all completed 30 days in copper checked with a Hannah and maintained at level as well as 2 doses of Prazi and metro during a >45 day QT.
Details:
Reefer 750 (nearly 200g)
SG 1.026
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5ish
Temp 78
pH 8.12 (typically a little higher than 8.2)
ORP stable around 390
Other fish:
1x lyretail anthia (1 missing)
1x perc clown (1 missing)
2x Banggai cardinals
1x royal gramma
1x shrimp goby
1x large carpet anemone
Could being stung by the anemone make him act this way? Is my oxygen theory reasonable? Any other thoughts?
I checked in on the fish over a Webcam while gone every one in a while. I typically saw all of the fish and know for a fact 2 days before we got back I saw both anthias. In the 4 days since we've been back, I haven't seen one of the clowns and 1 anthia has disappeared. Last night the yellow tang looked to be breathing really fast and today he is hovering in the top 1/3 of the water column. I'm not sure what's going on.
I cranked the powerheads up and am letting the skimmer overflow thinking that maybe there was an algae/bacterial bloom from excess food from the auto feeder. I also did a 45g water change last night to try me stem the tide of unknown even though my parameters all seemed to check out.
I highly doubt this is disease. The fish show no outward symptoms other than the fast breathing. They all completed 30 days in copper checked with a Hannah and maintained at level as well as 2 doses of Prazi and metro during a >45 day QT.
Details:
Reefer 750 (nearly 200g)
SG 1.026
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5ish
Temp 78
pH 8.12 (typically a little higher than 8.2)
ORP stable around 390
Other fish:
1x lyretail anthia (1 missing)
1x perc clown (1 missing)
2x Banggai cardinals
1x royal gramma
1x shrimp goby
1x large carpet anemone
Could being stung by the anemone make him act this way? Is my oxygen theory reasonable? Any other thoughts?