msweeney1994
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I just recently bought a royal gramma and put him in the tank this afternoon. I drip acclimated it slowly to reduce the stress but hours later i see him pretty much lying on the sand bed not breathing fast and not dead. the pet store where i got him is not my preferred store but I have credit there so I'm trying to use that before I dig deeper into my wallet. i know all of the tanks with the exception of the coral tanks are treated with copper i guess to prevent ich? But i was wondering if going from copper water to my regular untreated salt water would cause this fish to freak out like this. My tank has been running for years and I know my parameters are in check. And I also got a mimic tang from there about a month ago and he is doing fine now but had weird behavior not too long ago. When the blues were on in the tank in the morning I could see what looked like ich, then when the lights turned on it was gone. He's acting completely fine now but for a few days he stayed in the upper left hand corner of the tank.
