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"So I posted earlier about a clownfish showing signs of distress, heavy breathing, staying in one area almost motionless just barely swimming into a light current and not eating.
This started yesterday and he is dead today.
Could this be a case of stress? There is another larger clown in the tank same species but they didn't get along. They stay on opposite sides of the tank and rarely get close to each other. The surviving one is quite a bit bigger than the dead one. They lived together for about 2 months
There are also 2 firefish that seem to be happy and healthy. Various snails and a skunk shrimp all doing there thing. A couple of small zoa frags, small gsp, small clove polyp and a small frogspawn. All the corals seems happy.
I thought it might have been ich. I didn't see any visual signs
No sign of velvet
Tank is 29g hob filter and heater. 2 orbit ic lights and 3 eFlux 660 power heads one is pointed at the surface for agitation. I do 10% water changes weekly and haven't missed one. Water is ro/di Water parameters are all good 1.024 no ammonia or nitrite. Nitrate 1-2 ppm. Cal 420 magnesium 1250 ph 8 alk 11 it's been running for about 3 months now with no issues minus green film algae that doesn't seem to want to go away. Not getting worse or better.
Per my LFS I ran a phosnet in my hob filter. It was supposed to run for 4 days per instruction. On day 2 I noticed the fish acting odd and removed the phosnet. Also did another water change and replaced my carbon filter. Could this be the culprit?
Long rant sorry, just hate losing a fish. And I am concerned for the others even though they aren't showing any signs of anything.
Should I remove the other fish an qt just in case?
Thanks for any input!"
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"So I posted earlier about a clownfish showing signs of distress, heavy breathing, staying in one area almost motionless just barely swimming into a light current and not eating.
This started yesterday and he is dead today.
Could this be a case of stress? There is another larger clown in the tank same species but they didn't get along. They stay on opposite sides of the tank and rarely get close to each other. The surviving one is quite a bit bigger than the dead one. They lived together for about 2 months
There are also 2 firefish that seem to be happy and healthy. Various snails and a skunk shrimp all doing there thing. A couple of small zoa frags, small gsp, small clove polyp and a small frogspawn. All the corals seems happy.
I thought it might have been ich. I didn't see any visual signs
No sign of velvet
Tank is 29g hob filter and heater. 2 orbit ic lights and 3 eFlux 660 power heads one is pointed at the surface for agitation. I do 10% water changes weekly and haven't missed one. Water is ro/di Water parameters are all good 1.024 no ammonia or nitrite. Nitrate 1-2 ppm. Cal 420 magnesium 1250 ph 8 alk 11 it's been running for about 3 months now with no issues minus green film algae that doesn't seem to want to go away. Not getting worse or better.
Per my LFS I ran a phosnet in my hob filter. It was supposed to run for 4 days per instruction. On day 2 I noticed the fish acting odd and removed the phosnet. Also did another water change and replaced my carbon filter. Could this be the culprit?
Long rant sorry, just hate losing a fish. And I am concerned for the others even though they aren't showing any signs of anything.
Should I remove the other fish an qt just in case?
Thanks for any input!"
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