Okay, so I've had 1 chromis in my 120 for a month and a half now. It started as 4 of them, but I went on vacation, and the other 3 disappeared. Last week, I bought a healthy looking Maroon (or tomato, I forget which one, one stripe, tomato red), and now he's got a few TINY white spots on him (not even 1/5mm SUPER tiny, hardly noticable without close observation, looked like scales that have fallen off or something at first). At the LFS he didn't have anything showing on him, and he had been there in captivity for at least a week.
Now he has been in my tank for a week, and he has VERY VERY tiny white spots on him. I've seen pictures of ICH everywhere, and they're always larger spots on fish, even smaller fish. Is it still Ich?
The chromis shows no signs of distress, or spots. I have not seen the clown itch anywhere against rock or sand or anything, which i've heard they do when they've got ich because of the surface irritation. I've got a cleaner shrimp in my tank, but I'm doubting that he's cleaning them off unfortunatly.
NEXT!
What is the easiest way to catch a fish with a net. I know I should use clear plastic containers and such, but it's just not available to me right now.
I've tried baiting the net with mysis (which are usual feeding standards in my tank, and the fish readily eat it) and they still ran from the net.
I tried while the clown was sleeping against the overflow, and almost had him but the net was bent. So now my main issue is catching the chromis. He is really quick, and doesn't sleep soundly at all. As soon as a net hits the water, he's outta there.
If I leave the fish in the display tank, are they doomed to die?
P.S. The tomato clown still has a good apetite, so I don't know how dangerous the situation is. All signs except white grains point to nothing. Also, not that it should matter, but I had a microbubble problem in my tank a lot in the past few weeks, I just treated with chemi-clean last week to get rid of cyano which has since been water changed out and skimmed out.
Now he has been in my tank for a week, and he has VERY VERY tiny white spots on him. I've seen pictures of ICH everywhere, and they're always larger spots on fish, even smaller fish. Is it still Ich?
The chromis shows no signs of distress, or spots. I have not seen the clown itch anywhere against rock or sand or anything, which i've heard they do when they've got ich because of the surface irritation. I've got a cleaner shrimp in my tank, but I'm doubting that he's cleaning them off unfortunatly.
NEXT!
What is the easiest way to catch a fish with a net. I know I should use clear plastic containers and such, but it's just not available to me right now.
I've tried baiting the net with mysis (which are usual feeding standards in my tank, and the fish readily eat it) and they still ran from the net.
I tried while the clown was sleeping against the overflow, and almost had him but the net was bent. So now my main issue is catching the chromis. He is really quick, and doesn't sleep soundly at all. As soon as a net hits the water, he's outta there.
If I leave the fish in the display tank, are they doomed to die?
P.S. The tomato clown still has a good apetite, so I don't know how dangerous the situation is. All signs except white grains point to nothing. Also, not that it should matter, but I had a microbubble problem in my tank a lot in the past few weeks, I just treated with chemi-clean last week to get rid of cyano which has since been water changed out and skimmed out.
