rileyrayne
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Hey guys, I posted this over on some other forums but no one has been able to help me yet, so I thought I would try over here.
I had 2 juvenile false perc clowns in a 15g nano reef. I had them for about 3 months and everything was completely fine, no health problems at all. Then 3 days ago I noticed one of them was hiding all day (except for feeding time) in a cave in the back of some live rock (they sleep in the cave at night). The other clown was acting completely normal. I didn't notice any other signs that something was wrong with the one clown, except that it was in hiding. The next day was the same - 1 clown hiding, came out to feed, the other clown swimming around like normal. Except that night before I turned off the lights I noticed the "sick" clown was near the front of the tank swimming in fast circles and a bit lopsided. She eventually snapped out of it and went back into the cave for the night. I figured it was a parasite, but the next day before I got a chance to treat her, I saw that she was absolutely terrible - going from swimming in summersaults/circles/twists across the tank and hitting anything in the way, to falling down and laying upside down or sideways on the sand bed, then repeating everything over again. I did an emergency freshwater dip, but she wasn't any better. I waited a bit and she was swimming less, mainly upside down on the bottom, so I decided it was best to put her down.
The thing is, from the beginning of this to the end, the clown never had any physical signs of a particular illness. There were no spots, scratches, bloody gills, discoloration, heavy breathing, lack of appetite, or anything else. Everything else in the tank is fine and acting normal, but I'm quarantining the other clown for a while just in case.
My levels in the tank have been good and constant (Salifert test kit), salinity and temperature are always consistant, I do 20% RO water changes every 7-10 days and feed regularly.
So does this sound like a parasite, something the specific fish was just born with, or something else? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I had 2 juvenile false perc clowns in a 15g nano reef. I had them for about 3 months and everything was completely fine, no health problems at all. Then 3 days ago I noticed one of them was hiding all day (except for feeding time) in a cave in the back of some live rock (they sleep in the cave at night). The other clown was acting completely normal. I didn't notice any other signs that something was wrong with the one clown, except that it was in hiding. The next day was the same - 1 clown hiding, came out to feed, the other clown swimming around like normal. Except that night before I turned off the lights I noticed the "sick" clown was near the front of the tank swimming in fast circles and a bit lopsided. She eventually snapped out of it and went back into the cave for the night. I figured it was a parasite, but the next day before I got a chance to treat her, I saw that she was absolutely terrible - going from swimming in summersaults/circles/twists across the tank and hitting anything in the way, to falling down and laying upside down or sideways on the sand bed, then repeating everything over again. I did an emergency freshwater dip, but she wasn't any better. I waited a bit and she was swimming less, mainly upside down on the bottom, so I decided it was best to put her down.
The thing is, from the beginning of this to the end, the clown never had any physical signs of a particular illness. There were no spots, scratches, bloody gills, discoloration, heavy breathing, lack of appetite, or anything else. Everything else in the tank is fine and acting normal, but I'm quarantining the other clown for a while just in case.
My levels in the tank have been good and constant (Salifert test kit), salinity and temperature are always consistant, I do 20% RO water changes every 7-10 days and feed regularly.
So does this sound like a parasite, something the specific fish was just born with, or something else? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
