Noob move and not likely to be repeated again. I bought 4 green chromis to help cycle my 46gallon with 25lbs of live rock in it. (I know, not accepted practice at all, well aware, won't happen again). Within the first hour or so I noticed something wrong with one of them.
While the 3 others were schooling and behaving completely normally, this one (healthy looking at first) decided to pick out a corner of the tank near the bottom and just hang out. He would swim along the glass near the bottom, occasionally swimming upwards, vertically along my heater a few times and then come back down. All the while his breathing becomes more and more rapid. Now today, he's in even worse shape. His fins are ragged, he's barely moving and wouldn't feed when I fed the others. Theres a small amount of a stringy something trailing on his tail fins. He's looking pale and has what looks like random pale blotches, not white dots, but whole scale sized, randomized patches that lack color. He was hiding in the rockwork and wouldn't school.
I originally thought Ich and decided to try a freshwater dip for 10 minutes. Well, since then, he seems to have improved somewhat, I did the dip about an hour and half to two hours ago and it seems to have improved his condition somewhat. He's straightened his body out somewhat (he was looking a little bit crooked), and he's become more active, schooling with his buddies. However, he still has something trailing from his fins, is still breathing rapidly and still seems to be having some difficulty swimming, albeit less than before. I can't tell if he's getting better or not.
I'm just wondering, is this Ich? I originally feared it was, but the pale blotches seem to large and conform to the scales perfectly, which doesn't seem to match up with Ich. Also I haven't noticed him rubbing against any rocks. All the other fish show no symptoms whatsoever, including one with a badly shredded pelvic fin (I assume the victim of aggression from his mates at some point, probably in the bag on the way home, because I noticed it immediately) who otherwise is doing absolutely fine. The symptoms don't seem to conform to any sort of ammonia or nitrite poisoning either, especially since at two weeks old, my system isn't registering either of those in tests yet.
Is this a symptom of bad acclimation? What exactly are the symptoms of bad acclimation?
What's going on?
While the 3 others were schooling and behaving completely normally, this one (healthy looking at first) decided to pick out a corner of the tank near the bottom and just hang out. He would swim along the glass near the bottom, occasionally swimming upwards, vertically along my heater a few times and then come back down. All the while his breathing becomes more and more rapid. Now today, he's in even worse shape. His fins are ragged, he's barely moving and wouldn't feed when I fed the others. Theres a small amount of a stringy something trailing on his tail fins. He's looking pale and has what looks like random pale blotches, not white dots, but whole scale sized, randomized patches that lack color. He was hiding in the rockwork and wouldn't school.
I originally thought Ich and decided to try a freshwater dip for 10 minutes. Well, since then, he seems to have improved somewhat, I did the dip about an hour and half to two hours ago and it seems to have improved his condition somewhat. He's straightened his body out somewhat (he was looking a little bit crooked), and he's become more active, schooling with his buddies. However, he still has something trailing from his fins, is still breathing rapidly and still seems to be having some difficulty swimming, albeit less than before. I can't tell if he's getting better or not.
I'm just wondering, is this Ich? I originally feared it was, but the pale blotches seem to large and conform to the scales perfectly, which doesn't seem to match up with Ich. Also I haven't noticed him rubbing against any rocks. All the other fish show no symptoms whatsoever, including one with a badly shredded pelvic fin (I assume the victim of aggression from his mates at some point, probably in the bag on the way home, because I noticed it immediately) who otherwise is doing absolutely fine. The symptoms don't seem to conform to any sort of ammonia or nitrite poisoning either, especially since at two weeks old, my system isn't registering either of those in tests yet.
Is this a symptom of bad acclimation? What exactly are the symptoms of bad acclimation?
What's going on?
