GSM Help!!! Please

[Brazengrrl]

I have a GSM, I have had her since the beginning of my tank. SHe has always been healthy and feisty. She and my bleached BTA have lived harmonously since then. I have had to treat my tank for Red Slime and since then my BTA has appeared to deflate like he was going to the bathroom every day and my GSM has been staying at the bottom of the tank acting very nervously. I did a water change yesterday and now she is hanging out at the top of the tank and she does not look well. My whole tank looks bad, it as if all of my LR has been under the sand and seems to now be getting hair algae. I have a yellow tang, kohl tang and scooter blenny that look fine, but I dont know what to do about the GSM. I have a 10 gallon tank and a power head, should I set up a hospital tank, and if so should I use fresh water or tank some from the tank? I hope this all makes sense and someone can give me some advice.

 

[TOURKID]

fill the hospital tank with water from your reef. what symptoms is she showing? breathing heavy? eating or not?

 

[Slakker]

I may be totally off base, but after having read the first 20 pages of this forum (hehe...yep...pages, not posts...i've been a busy little reader) it sounds like MAYBE your anemone is releasing some toxins into the water, or perhaps it is just creating a lot of waste and throwing off water quality. It sounds like if it has been bleached for a long time it's possible that it's on near death.

But, quite honestly, this is just a guess from what I've read here and in a book or two...i'm sure someone else knows a LOT more than I do about this and will have more helpful information, but it might not be a terrible idea to move the nem out of your main tank.

 

[GSMguy]

i would say you are in trouble your fish may have been attacked by those large poisonous tangs they are called surgeonfish because they have a sharp blade on their tail that contains toxins
you can not keep tangs in a 65

 

[TOURKID]

I def wouldent move the nem out. thats a recipe for death. they dont take change very well.

I was thinking she has a bacterial infection, but i need symptoms

 

[Slakker]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8868935#post8868935 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GSMguy
i would say you are in trouble your fish may have been attacked by those large poisonous tangs they are called surgeonfish because they have a sharp blade on their tail that contains toxins
you can not keep tangs in a 65

Really? I've never heard anything about tangs having any kind of barb...can you link an article or something about it? I'm interested to read a little about this!

Also, my good friend had a yellow tang in her 29 without problems. She did give it to her boyfriend when it got a little big and started picking on her clowns, though.

 

[Brazengrrl]

Ok, heres the update. The BTA is open today and the GSM slept in him last night, but this morning she is swimming near the bottom of the tank. The bubbles from my skimmer were irritating the heck out of everything in the tank, because this morning there are alot less bubbles coming from the skimmer. The GSM even had bubbles stuck to her thats how bad it was. BUT there was a sand sifter starfish that had most of his legs gone ( by the pistol shromp I think ) gone and he died. I will test everything now and double check that thats not the problem.