sdellin
Aquarium Advice Addict
Hello All,
I have a couple questions...
My ocellaris clown is obviously in distress. He's laying on the rocks, which is so not normal for him, and he's gasping pretty bad. I can see no ick or any other indication of illness. He's very large, maybe he's getting old?... I checked water perameters last night: Nitrates - 20, Nitrites and Ammonia - 0, PH - 8.1 (this has always been normal for my tank), SG - 1.024 (normal for my tank). I checked calcium to see if there was a sharp change, but no... it's 420, same as last test.
My protein skimmer is not working properly, I just received my Aqua C, but haven't hooked it up yet.
Is there something else I should be checking? I use RO/DI water for changes, no other fish look sick but here's something else... I have a flasher wrasse in the same tank, he's missing. I've searched the rocks with a flashlight and can't find him. He "left" for a couple days once before and just showed up again, but this time I'm suspicious. Also, my royal grama died a couple weeks ago and no explanation on that. Oh, yeah, the serpent star had issues recently, he was curled into a ball on the sand for a couple days, but he recovered from whatever was stressing him. I'm thinking something is going on, but can't find anything.
The gramma and Nemo were from a friend who had them for about five years. Could they just be dying natually by age or is that silly? I want answers so I can take steps to protect my fish, but I'm at a loss.
One more thing, how in the heck do you all catch sick fish to move them to the QT when they have so many placed to hide in the reef? I can't catch Nemo without moving a bunch of rocks and distrubing the tank, but I sure hate to have a fish die in there and put the other fish at risk.
I have a couple questions...
My ocellaris clown is obviously in distress. He's laying on the rocks, which is so not normal for him, and he's gasping pretty bad. I can see no ick or any other indication of illness. He's very large, maybe he's getting old?... I checked water perameters last night: Nitrates - 20, Nitrites and Ammonia - 0, PH - 8.1 (this has always been normal for my tank), SG - 1.024 (normal for my tank). I checked calcium to see if there was a sharp change, but no... it's 420, same as last test.
My protein skimmer is not working properly, I just received my Aqua C, but haven't hooked it up yet.
Is there something else I should be checking? I use RO/DI water for changes, no other fish look sick but here's something else... I have a flasher wrasse in the same tank, he's missing. I've searched the rocks with a flashlight and can't find him. He "left" for a couple days once before and just showed up again, but this time I'm suspicious. Also, my royal grama died a couple weeks ago and no explanation on that. Oh, yeah, the serpent star had issues recently, he was curled into a ball on the sand for a couple days, but he recovered from whatever was stressing him. I'm thinking something is going on, but can't find anything.
The gramma and Nemo were from a friend who had them for about five years. Could they just be dying natually by age or is that silly? I want answers so I can take steps to protect my fish, but I'm at a loss.
One more thing, how in the heck do you all catch sick fish to move them to the QT when they have so many placed to hide in the reef? I can't catch Nemo without moving a bunch of rocks and distrubing the tank, but I sure hate to have a fish die in there and put the other fish at risk.