Tenny
New member
Hello,
So I have recently got back into the hobby of s/w tanks. I bought a established tank from someone getting out of the hobby, but it had no fish in it... just some hermit crabs and snails. I was monitoring the parameters daily and everything was good (salinty was on the low side 1.020 at the time, ammonia 0ppm, nitrite 0ppm, nitrate ~5-10ppm). After about two weeks I decided to add some fish. I added a Royal Gramma and two aquacultured clowns (a. ocellaris).
I once again kept to checking the parameters daily and didn't notice any changes. After a few weeks one of the clowns stopped swimming around much, I looked at it and noticed that it was not flapping one of its fins often so I thought maybe it got injured or something? I didn't see anything picking on it so I just hoped it'd heal up.
Over the next few days I noticed it became a little pale and stopped eating. The jaw became discolored the most. It basically swam in a single spot most of the time and rarely moved away from that spot. The fins also lacked the color and looked to be deteriorating. I also noticed it not eating over the last two days. The other clown appeared fine and swam all around the tank following people.
Well yesterday morning I woke up to the clown dead. The other clown still was swimming around fine. I scooped the one out and couldn't tell much as the hermits had got to it.
I kind of thought that maybe the fin being injured was too much to recover from.
The other clown was fine and I went to work. When I returned I notice it's jaw also was looking like the other's (getting a little discolored white). It was still swimming around when I returned from work. Within one hour from when I saw it swimming around looking mostly fine (besides the jaw discoloration) it was dead at the bottom of the tank. I got to it before any damage had been done and besides the jaw being slightly discolored, I didn't notice any other issues.
So while I didn't see the slime coating typically found with Brooklynella nor did I find the white spots on them, could it have been that?
I'm tempted to take out the RG and do a formalin dip and keep him in QT and allow the DT to stay fallow for the 4-8 weeks to ensure that there is no disease in the water. Of course I don't want to do that if it's unnecessary.
Currently the RG looks great. Very bright color, eats well, etc.
So I have recently got back into the hobby of s/w tanks. I bought a established tank from someone getting out of the hobby, but it had no fish in it... just some hermit crabs and snails. I was monitoring the parameters daily and everything was good (salinty was on the low side 1.020 at the time, ammonia 0ppm, nitrite 0ppm, nitrate ~5-10ppm). After about two weeks I decided to add some fish. I added a Royal Gramma and two aquacultured clowns (a. ocellaris).
I once again kept to checking the parameters daily and didn't notice any changes. After a few weeks one of the clowns stopped swimming around much, I looked at it and noticed that it was not flapping one of its fins often so I thought maybe it got injured or something? I didn't see anything picking on it so I just hoped it'd heal up.
Over the next few days I noticed it became a little pale and stopped eating. The jaw became discolored the most. It basically swam in a single spot most of the time and rarely moved away from that spot. The fins also lacked the color and looked to be deteriorating. I also noticed it not eating over the last two days. The other clown appeared fine and swam all around the tank following people.
Well yesterday morning I woke up to the clown dead. The other clown still was swimming around fine. I scooped the one out and couldn't tell much as the hermits had got to it.
I kind of thought that maybe the fin being injured was too much to recover from.
The other clown was fine and I went to work. When I returned I notice it's jaw also was looking like the other's (getting a little discolored white). It was still swimming around when I returned from work. Within one hour from when I saw it swimming around looking mostly fine (besides the jaw discoloration) it was dead at the bottom of the tank. I got to it before any damage had been done and besides the jaw being slightly discolored, I didn't notice any other issues.
So while I didn't see the slime coating typically found with Brooklynella nor did I find the white spots on them, could it have been that?
I'm tempted to take out the RG and do a formalin dip and keep him in QT and allow the DT to stay fallow for the 4-8 weeks to ensure that there is no disease in the water. Of course I don't want to do that if it's unnecessary.
Currently the RG looks great. Very bright color, eats well, etc.
