Baltimore Bryan
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First let me say that this is my dad's tank, so I'm not there in person and it's hard to accurately describe what's happening.
This morning apparently things are
55 gallon tank, with sump, it had been running for about 20 years until last summer I broke it down and restarted it since it was in bad shape, but I saved the live rock and some of the old crushed coral to seed the new tank. The tank had been fishless for at least 2 months before I got it back up.
We added 1 chromis we had for awhile, and a flame angel and carpenter's flasher wrasse. No problems, they seemed to be doing great.
Earlier this week, they maybe started swimming a little erratically, like darting around a bit. This morning, can't find the wrasse, chromis is not 100% and flame angel doesn't look too hot. He swims in place against the current, and doesn't use his side fins. The tank was fully cycled and the cleaner shrimps, snails and crabs are fine.
Salinity: 1.020-1.021 (refractometer)
pH: 8.4 (maybe a tad higher)
Temperature: 78* F
Couldn't see any ich or visible discoloration in patches, though the flame angel's colors are a bit dull all over. Also there may be some very small light grey/white areas on the edges of his fin, can't tell for sure but maybe flukes?
He's got a hospital tank set up, we could either move the few inverts (no coral) and treat the tank, or try to catch the fish and treat in the other tank but I'm worried about stressing them out more.
Here's a video of the flame angel (please excuse the algae...):
http://s354.photobucket.com/user/bfnixon1/media/IMG_1230_zps15cc7c61.mp4.html
Hopefully that works, not sure how to embed from photobucket.
Any advice you have is appreciated!
Thanks,
Bryan
This morning apparently things are
55 gallon tank, with sump, it had been running for about 20 years until last summer I broke it down and restarted it since it was in bad shape, but I saved the live rock and some of the old crushed coral to seed the new tank. The tank had been fishless for at least 2 months before I got it back up.
We added 1 chromis we had for awhile, and a flame angel and carpenter's flasher wrasse. No problems, they seemed to be doing great.
Earlier this week, they maybe started swimming a little erratically, like darting around a bit. This morning, can't find the wrasse, chromis is not 100% and flame angel doesn't look too hot. He swims in place against the current, and doesn't use his side fins. The tank was fully cycled and the cleaner shrimps, snails and crabs are fine.
Salinity: 1.020-1.021 (refractometer)
pH: 8.4 (maybe a tad higher)
Temperature: 78* F
Couldn't see any ich or visible discoloration in patches, though the flame angel's colors are a bit dull all over. Also there may be some very small light grey/white areas on the edges of his fin, can't tell for sure but maybe flukes?
He's got a hospital tank set up, we could either move the few inverts (no coral) and treat the tank, or try to catch the fish and treat in the other tank but I'm worried about stressing them out more.
Here's a video of the flame angel (please excuse the algae...):
http://s354.photobucket.com/user/bfnixon1/media/IMG_1230_zps15cc7c61.mp4.html
Hopefully that works, not sure how to embed from photobucket.
Any advice you have is appreciated!
Thanks,
Bryan