fishfisher
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Hi everybody,
Does anyone know what might cause a miniatus grouper or any other fish to become pale, look bloated a little, and roll to one side?
I noticed this morning that my miniatus grouper isn't doing so well. He is pale and is kind of lying turned half way toward one side about an inch off the bottom. His position is normal except that his is turned a little and is barely breathing. He has some extra pale patches too. He was pointed straight up a little while ago. His eyes are open and he seems aware of everything, but his mouth remains almost closed and he seems to be giving up.
My tang, two triggers, and lunar wrasse are all doing great. One of my two perc clowns has also been just a little pale for the last couple weeks and hasn't been eating much, but otherwise he seems ok.
pH 8.1
Temp 81
Amm 0
N02 should be fine
NO3 under 25
Salinity 1.009-1.010 (Have been doing hyposalinity for 6 weeks)
I can only think of a couple possible causes- the hypo might be killing him. He's been in hypo for only 2 weeks, but did fine until now.
Last night a pipe sprung a leak and has been dripping since then, the pump was sucking a little air along with the water for several hours, so some bubles were shooting near the surface of the water from the return pipe. Could the bubbles have hurt him?
I put some of the water back into the tank using a clean and rinsed plastic food container that caught the drips from the leak. Could this have somehow poisoned the grouper? There shouldn't have been any chemicals or anything in it.
Also, my yellow tang chased him for a few seconds earlier today. maybe because the grouper looked sick so that he couldn't defend himself.
PLease help me. Thanks so much.
Does anyone know what might cause a miniatus grouper or any other fish to become pale, look bloated a little, and roll to one side?
I noticed this morning that my miniatus grouper isn't doing so well. He is pale and is kind of lying turned half way toward one side about an inch off the bottom. His position is normal except that his is turned a little and is barely breathing. He has some extra pale patches too. He was pointed straight up a little while ago. His eyes are open and he seems aware of everything, but his mouth remains almost closed and he seems to be giving up.
My tang, two triggers, and lunar wrasse are all doing great. One of my two perc clowns has also been just a little pale for the last couple weeks and hasn't been eating much, but otherwise he seems ok.
pH 8.1
Temp 81
Amm 0
N02 should be fine
NO3 under 25
Salinity 1.009-1.010 (Have been doing hyposalinity for 6 weeks)
I can only think of a couple possible causes- the hypo might be killing him. He's been in hypo for only 2 weeks, but did fine until now.
Last night a pipe sprung a leak and has been dripping since then, the pump was sucking a little air along with the water for several hours, so some bubles were shooting near the surface of the water from the return pipe. Could the bubbles have hurt him?
I put some of the water back into the tank using a clean and rinsed plastic food container that caught the drips from the leak. Could this have somehow poisoned the grouper? There shouldn't have been any chemicals or anything in it.
Also, my yellow tang chased him for a few seconds earlier today. maybe because the grouper looked sick so that he couldn't defend himself.
PLease help me. Thanks so much.
