Steve S.
Good morning! Thanx for the quick response. This is really strange, the tank I maintain is at my office. This morning 0730 when I came in and checked the tank, the color fade on the clown seems to now only be in the fins, all of the fins are outlined with a lighter shade of maroon. He didn't eat as hardily as he usually does either.
I did not do any quarentine on the Damsels before putting them in the tank, just the recommended acclumation.
I may be being to girly about this and I am fairly new at this marine maintenance momma position I have aquired, but when I received the tank a year ago, the occupants that came in the tank were the same maroon clown I'm talking about above and a Snowflake Eel, which jumped out of the tank over the weekend ( office is closed on weekends), needless to say he didn't make it and the final occupant was a Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, well, the Lion died on May 25th, I think he may have had feeder bones lodged inside that he couldn't pass, well...once the Lion died, within a few days the issues with the Clown started, he seemed to be withdrawn, less active and still so. Could he have depression?
This is a 30
gal. tank. I water change 6 gallons every three weeks, I'm due to water change today, should I go ahead with the change or wait?
Also, I was recently told from a worker at not my normal pet store that the Damsels will eventually eat the other fish in the tank??? The clown, a yellow tang and a kole tang??? Any truth to that? I find that hard to believe, at the Damsels biggest captivity size, they would still only be half the size of the other occupants.
So many questions so little time. Sorry to bombard you like this.
Thanx!