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Hello,
I’m BRAND NEW to the hobby and have spent the past 2 months cycling my biocube 32. I set up my QT and ordered 2 ORA Ocellaris clowns from LiveAquaria.com. One arrived dead and the other looked good and is in QT. He is the ONLY thing in QT, no other fish or invertebrates. Today is day 5 and I noticed his tail fin seems to have white opaque spots and torn? bits. He is swimming near the top and seems to be flitting his tail against the surface of the water. I have copper and Seachem Paraguard available at home but don’t want to give potentially harmful meds unnecessarily. Salinity is 1.023, temp 80.1, did 20% water change yesterday with the Imagitarium Pacific Ocean Water, ammonia read is 0. Fish hasn’t eaten well yet (offered frozen mysis, frozen brine,PE pellets saltwater fish food - saw him eat one pellet so far). I am feeling so anxious for our new guy and my big concern is that the replacement clownfish for the one who died in shipping is coming tomorrow and will be going in the same QT! Please help me ID and tell me what to do for my new family member! Also, I have little kids who were already upset about opening a bag with a dead fish so I feel I can’t let anything happen to this one! Thank you so much for any feedback and assistance!!!
I’m BRAND NEW to the hobby and have spent the past 2 months cycling my biocube 32. I set up my QT and ordered 2 ORA Ocellaris clowns from LiveAquaria.com. One arrived dead and the other looked good and is in QT. He is the ONLY thing in QT, no other fish or invertebrates. Today is day 5 and I noticed his tail fin seems to have white opaque spots and torn? bits. He is swimming near the top and seems to be flitting his tail against the surface of the water. I have copper and Seachem Paraguard available at home but don’t want to give potentially harmful meds unnecessarily. Salinity is 1.023, temp 80.1, did 20% water change yesterday with the Imagitarium Pacific Ocean Water, ammonia read is 0. Fish hasn’t eaten well yet (offered frozen mysis, frozen brine,PE pellets saltwater fish food - saw him eat one pellet so far). I am feeling so anxious for our new guy and my big concern is that the replacement clownfish for the one who died in shipping is coming tomorrow and will be going in the same QT! Please help me ID and tell me what to do for my new family member! Also, I have little kids who were already upset about opening a bag with a dead fish so I feel I can’t let anything happen to this one! Thank you so much for any feedback and assistance!!!