caliwavsurfer
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Hope soemone knows what this could be...I've had my tomato clown now for about 3 weeks and about a week ago he started becoming discolored. He has brown/black tinted marks all over his sides. He is also wanting a good cleaning by the shrimp but they aren't giving in. His swimming pattern is also off....he tilts to the side sometimes as if losing balance. I checked water parameters and they were all good. I do a 15% water change every 2 weeks.
My camera isn't good enough so I am unable to get a good pic....
alright here it goes...I test for the basics...nintrite (0), nitrate (0), Ph (8.4), and ammonia (0) every other day. I have 75-100 lbs. of live rock maybe even more. The aquarium has been up and running for a little over a year. I supplement with calmax part A and B everyday. I also add reef solution(reef and fish maintenance additive) once every 3 days or so. I keep the temp b/w 78 and 79.
My tank is a 90 gallon bowfront tank with 2 hydor koralia's, tom aquatiocs pro series wet/dry filter with built in skimmer(really sucks), current satellite 4x65 watt pc fixture, and via aqua titanium tube heater.
salinity is 1.025
Livestock includes: 1 medium foxface, 5 green chromis, 1 firefish, 2 cleaner shrimp, tomato clown, bristle star, 5-6 hermits, 7 large turbo snails
1 small head of frogspawn, nice colonies of various zooas, xenia, green star polyps, and a couple of ricordea.
I feed the fish Tetra Marine salt water flakes, San Fransisco Bay frozen brine shrimp, and formula 1 w/ gell binder. i soak all the foods in GVH fish food soak. I also supplement the corals with Liquid Life bio plankton.
I use Coralife salt......
Hope that helps
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Google Image Result for http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Tomato_clownfish,_Amphiprion_frenatus.jpg
This is how they look but more wide spread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeYdhwyHwLk this is the video of him..kind of hard to tell what going on but maybe it will help. Thanks!
My camera isn't good enough so I am unable to get a good pic....
alright here it goes...I test for the basics...nintrite (0), nitrate (0), Ph (8.4), and ammonia (0) every other day. I have 75-100 lbs. of live rock maybe even more. The aquarium has been up and running for a little over a year. I supplement with calmax part A and B everyday. I also add reef solution(reef and fish maintenance additive) once every 3 days or so. I keep the temp b/w 78 and 79.
My tank is a 90 gallon bowfront tank with 2 hydor koralia's, tom aquatiocs pro series wet/dry filter with built in skimmer(really sucks), current satellite 4x65 watt pc fixture, and via aqua titanium tube heater.
salinity is 1.025
Livestock includes: 1 medium foxface, 5 green chromis, 1 firefish, 2 cleaner shrimp, tomato clown, bristle star, 5-6 hermits, 7 large turbo snails
1 small head of frogspawn, nice colonies of various zooas, xenia, green star polyps, and a couple of ricordea.
I feed the fish Tetra Marine salt water flakes, San Fransisco Bay frozen brine shrimp, and formula 1 w/ gell binder. i soak all the foods in GVH fish food soak. I also supplement the corals with Liquid Life bio plankton.
I use Coralife salt......
Hope that helps
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Google Image Result for http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Tomato_clownfish,_Amphiprion_frenatus.jpg
This is how they look but more wide spread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeYdhwyHwLk this is the video of him..kind of hard to tell what going on but maybe it will help. Thanks!
