clown dead after 2 days?

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I bought the healthiest looking FP at the LFS the other day, I aclimated him to the QT where I had a couple fish being treated for ich (other fish in the tank at the LFS had signs so I figured I would put the little clown in while mine are being treated to.

he was great yesterday, fed him and he was happy and peachy keen.
I come home and he is half hearted swimming, being pushed around and upside down by the filter...
damnit.

 

[littleshark]

water paraments?

 

[littleshark]

water paraments?

 

[2t2_crash]

i'll have to get those later, i just got off a 13 hour shift and need to sleep before I pass out at the comp.

 

[cartman5579]

Well, that could be why they don't make it!?

 

[reefman13]

Yeah, I would definitely check parameters.

Do you have anything else in the tank? Is the store you bought her from a reputeable dealer?

 

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11204098#post11204098 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cartman5579
Well, that could be why they don't make it!?

what could be?

the problem was copper ich medication. I wasn't aware clowns and copper ich medication is a no-no.

I swapped the water and washed the tank ( FW and a sponge. no soap) the LFS just gave me a replacement which I would have rather had money back and not endanger another clown... the second was doing great, swimming happy, eating, playing well... called the wife if she wanted to go to lunch, got home and the guy was lifeless at the bottom of the tank.
Wife said the clown had swam up to say hi while she was talking to me. I feel bad.. wont be trying clowns again for a little while.

 

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11204339#post11204339 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefman13
Yeah, I would definitely check parameters.

Do you have anything else in the tank? Is the store you bought her from a reputeable dealer?

water was fresh NSW with two blue damsels and a Sgt Major who left it alone. precautionary ich medicine in the tank was her demise. she was swimming weird by the third day.

 

[Slakker]

I doubt it was the copper...maybe extreme levels of copper, but I've read many accounts of copper being used as an effective treatment with clownfish.

IMO one mistake was buying the clown when you already had fish in QT with illnesses. New additions should be quarantined by themselves, as the stress of being shipped to the store, harassed in the store tanks, captured, bagged, and brought back to your place can be quite hard on them. It certainly didn't help these clowns' chances that they had to go into a tank with other fish and not a lot of hiding places.

Not to mention water quality/stability is usually a bit of a struggle in a QT tank with one fish, let alone four. I'm thinking that a combination of stress and poor water quality was the culprit, and not the copper.

 

[2t2_crash]

thanks for the info. the fish in the QT are good to go, the main tank is going through it's no fish time to get rid of any ich in it. the puffer that was had ich bad (wild caught).

suffice it to say I have learned a ton in a short time.