nodoubt471
Aquarium Advice Freak
i am very frustrated with my 46g corner tank. i cant keep anything alive in it, except two fish that were given to me by a man taking down his tank. i had a massacre earlier this year where i lost a yellow tang, a lawnmower blenny, and two yellowtail blue damsels.
just today i woke up and found my new yellow tang (well a couple months old) leaning up against the glass breathing heavily. i cant catch him to get him out of there, and the only symptoms he has are gasping, listlessness, and the beginnings of his fins are red. i treated with melafix, but b/c of inverts in the tank thats all i feel safe doing. i also preformed a large water change and did a round of tests, all came back normal except ammonia (but i think that the test is just screwed up).
i feel like im not able to provide proper care for these fish in a tank this size, the shapeof the tank is akward and makes matinence difficult, i dont have the equipment i should or the LR i should or the lighting i should and i cant afford to buy it, since my car just broke down (have to get a new one) and im in college.
so now the real point of my post is: do you think it would be ok to transferr the ocellaris clown (about 3 in) and dottyback (about 3 in) remaining to a 20g tank? i would be shutting down the 46 so all the LR and equipment would go onto that tank. i have no problem maintaining small tanks and i would be able to get better equipment for the tank, and hopefully more LR since it is smaller. i just want to do the right thing here.
sorry for the long and rambling post... but what do you guys think?
just today i woke up and found my new yellow tang (well a couple months old) leaning up against the glass breathing heavily. i cant catch him to get him out of there, and the only symptoms he has are gasping, listlessness, and the beginnings of his fins are red. i treated with melafix, but b/c of inverts in the tank thats all i feel safe doing. i also preformed a large water change and did a round of tests, all came back normal except ammonia (but i think that the test is just screwed up).
i feel like im not able to provide proper care for these fish in a tank this size, the shapeof the tank is akward and makes matinence difficult, i dont have the equipment i should or the LR i should or the lighting i should and i cant afford to buy it, since my car just broke down (have to get a new one) and im in college.
so now the real point of my post is: do you think it would be ok to transferr the ocellaris clown (about 3 in) and dottyback (about 3 in) remaining to a 20g tank? i would be shutting down the 46 so all the LR and equipment would go onto that tank. i have no problem maintaining small tanks and i would be able to get better equipment for the tank, and hopefully more LR since it is smaller. i just want to do the right thing here.
sorry for the long and rambling post... but what do you guys think?