korymiller
New Member
Hi,
We've had our saltwater tank setup for 4 months, and have 6 fish in there. 2 Clownfish, 2 blue-green chromis, a six line wrasse, and a yellow watchman goby. All have been doing incredibly well until this morning. I woke up and the larger of the two blue-green chromis' was swimming in the front-right corner of the tank at the very top. I looked at him, he does not look different physically, there are no bite marks, or anything off about his appearance that we can see. He is still swimming just as fast as he normally does, however, he only swims vertically, and will not leave the corner. The other chromis comes near him, but when he gets too close, the one that won't leave the corner just swims faster (vertically) and the other one leaves him alone. I fed the fish this morning, he still did not leave the corner, even to eat, however, if food came near him, he did eat it. He's been in this corner for at least the past 5 hours now, we aren't quite sure what to do. Everything we've read online hasn't applied as of yet, he's not turning yellow (what happens when they mate according to what we've read), and he's not losing his color (also what appears to happen whenever they are stressed according to what we've read online). Nothing out of the ordinary in the tank either, we did a water change approximately 4 days ago, salinity levels and everything check out just fine, as they always have. The last thing I'd like to add is that I did take our net over near him, and I was able to get him to leave the corner (because the net was blocking it) but as soon as I pulled the net out, he went right back to it.
Just looking for your opinions / thoughts.
Thank you!
We've had our saltwater tank setup for 4 months, and have 6 fish in there. 2 Clownfish, 2 blue-green chromis, a six line wrasse, and a yellow watchman goby. All have been doing incredibly well until this morning. I woke up and the larger of the two blue-green chromis' was swimming in the front-right corner of the tank at the very top. I looked at him, he does not look different physically, there are no bite marks, or anything off about his appearance that we can see. He is still swimming just as fast as he normally does, however, he only swims vertically, and will not leave the corner. The other chromis comes near him, but when he gets too close, the one that won't leave the corner just swims faster (vertically) and the other one leaves him alone. I fed the fish this morning, he still did not leave the corner, even to eat, however, if food came near him, he did eat it. He's been in this corner for at least the past 5 hours now, we aren't quite sure what to do. Everything we've read online hasn't applied as of yet, he's not turning yellow (what happens when they mate according to what we've read), and he's not losing his color (also what appears to happen whenever they are stressed according to what we've read online). Nothing out of the ordinary in the tank either, we did a water change approximately 4 days ago, salinity levels and everything check out just fine, as they always have. The last thing I'd like to add is that I did take our net over near him, and I was able to get him to leave the corner (because the net was blocking it) but as soon as I pulled the net out, he went right back to it.
Just looking for your opinions / thoughts.
Thank you!
