Hello All:
I started the week off with:
2 Ocellaris clowns
3 blue/green chromis
5 azure damsels
1 ignitus anthias
5 peppermint shrimp
2 cleaner shrimp
In my 94 gallon reef, with mostly softies.
I added 1 sailfin blenny and 1 yellow striped cardinal from Liveaquaria mid-week. I did not QT them as I do not have that capability. But I have bought almost all of my fish from LA with never a problem such as this.
Friday the blenny and cardinal were dead when I woke up.
Yesterday the anthias and a damsel died.
I tested my water and everything was within normal limited except my Nitrate which was around 40-50. I did a water change and got that down.
The smaller of my clowns (they are about 3 years old) is unwell. Yesterday he was in another area of the tank on the sand, but he came up to eat and swam normally. Today he is still lingering on the sand and looks a little fuzzy. I can't get a pic, but he looks like the sand is on him. Everybody else seems ok. The shrimp are fine, the fish seem fine, the corals are fine.
A) what could it be? could it be just the nitrate?
B) if the clown dies, can I add a new one after those two having been together for 3 years?
C) if the clown continues to look bad, should I do that capture and freeze euthanasia thing people talk about on here?
D) I have melafix, should I dose that into the tank?
I started the week off with:
2 Ocellaris clowns
3 blue/green chromis
5 azure damsels
1 ignitus anthias
5 peppermint shrimp
2 cleaner shrimp
In my 94 gallon reef, with mostly softies.
I added 1 sailfin blenny and 1 yellow striped cardinal from Liveaquaria mid-week. I did not QT them as I do not have that capability. But I have bought almost all of my fish from LA with never a problem such as this.
Friday the blenny and cardinal were dead when I woke up.
Yesterday the anthias and a damsel died.
I tested my water and everything was within normal limited except my Nitrate which was around 40-50. I did a water change and got that down.
The smaller of my clowns (they are about 3 years old) is unwell. Yesterday he was in another area of the tank on the sand, but he came up to eat and swam normally. Today he is still lingering on the sand and looks a little fuzzy. I can't get a pic, but he looks like the sand is on him. Everybody else seems ok. The shrimp are fine, the fish seem fine, the corals are fine.
A) what could it be? could it be just the nitrate?
B) if the clown dies, can I add a new one after those two having been together for 3 years?
C) if the clown continues to look bad, should I do that capture and freeze euthanasia thing people talk about on here?
D) I have melafix, should I dose that into the tank?
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