Yep so everyone knows that nice blue gig I recently got. Well it’s not doing to hot.
Shortly after being added to the tank, it began to deflate just before lights out and would re-inflate after lights out.
Well about a week ago it started acting wierd. Almost like it wasn’t strong enough to lift its oral disk out of the sand so half of its disc was tentacle down. Then it also began deflating during the day but re-inflating at night (I’m thinking I may have light shocked him switching from the 2x 150w halides to 2x 250w halides)
Yesterday I noticed it started to climb the rocks but never really inflated at all and today the mouth started to gape significantly. So I was able to remove him from the rock (oddly very easily so that’s an additional clue he wasn’t doing well) and where he kept putting his oral disk face down in the sand was all slimy (but the oral disk itself seemed okay).
I haven’t tested params yet but given he looks pitiful, I started Cipro treatment tonight. The only thing is I was out of 10 gallon tanks so I used a 5.5 gallon…hopefully that doesn’t overtly affect the Cipro treatment.
I’m kind of curious if he wasn’t getting enough flow resulting in the oral disk in the sand issue which then led to the deflation issue.
Something even more odd, is while not hosting in it, my clown seems more interested now that it’s deflating. Im thinking it’s likely expelling something (though I haven’t seen much of anything) and the clown is eating it). Anyways, just chronicling here.
Here he is pre-Cipro treatment
Shortly after being added to the tank, it began to deflate just before lights out and would re-inflate after lights out.
Well about a week ago it started acting wierd. Almost like it wasn’t strong enough to lift its oral disk out of the sand so half of its disc was tentacle down. Then it also began deflating during the day but re-inflating at night (I’m thinking I may have light shocked him switching from the 2x 150w halides to 2x 250w halides)
Yesterday I noticed it started to climb the rocks but never really inflated at all and today the mouth started to gape significantly. So I was able to remove him from the rock (oddly very easily so that’s an additional clue he wasn’t doing well) and where he kept putting his oral disk face down in the sand was all slimy (but the oral disk itself seemed okay).
I haven’t tested params yet but given he looks pitiful, I started Cipro treatment tonight. The only thing is I was out of 10 gallon tanks so I used a 5.5 gallon…hopefully that doesn’t overtly affect the Cipro treatment.
I’m kind of curious if he wasn’t getting enough flow resulting in the oral disk in the sand issue which then led to the deflation issue.
Something even more odd, is while not hosting in it, my clown seems more interested now that it’s deflating. Im thinking it’s likely expelling something (though I haven’t seen much of anything) and the clown is eating it). Anyways, just chronicling here.
Here he is pre-Cipro treatment
