Maroon Clownfish problem... HELP ASAP

silverado61

silverado61

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You can use a 10g tank with no sand or rock. Just a bare bottom. Get a hang on the back filter and take the filter pad and put it in your sump for a couple of weeks so that it picks up bacteria from your display. Then, put water from your next water change into the qt and put the filter pad back the hob. Test for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. If you get all readings at zero, its ready for a fish. Everything else Jay said is good.
 
silverado61

silverado61

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Oh, and put an airline in for airation. No air stone. Use a rubber band to tie it to the piece of PVC. The PVC is to give the fish a place to hind so it feels compfortable.
 
jay0705

jay0705

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Good point a hob would work for a qt. Lol a sponge is an older type of filter. I use it to grow alage on for some reason it really grows on it then I put it in my big tank and the fox and tang love the snack. It was originally used in my qt but now iam done w fish buying for a bit
 
brandon17617

brandon17617

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So I woke up this morning and the one remaining Maroon Clown had white spots all over him and I immediately thought it had to be ich so I did a freshwater dip on her right away. She jumped out of my container and landed on the carpet so I put her back in the dip for about 3 minutes. Then I put her back in my main tank and she swam away and I went to work. Came home from work for lunch and she was dead. So basically I added a mated pair of Maroon Clownfish and a Orange Diamond Gobie to my tank that already had 3 Green Chromis fish. 2 of the Chromis died within the first few days, then just yesterday I had to get rid of the smaller (male maroon clown) because his tail appeared to be badly damaged and he was just sitting on the bottom of the tank, and then today I find the female maroon dead. So all that is alive in there now is one chromis and the diamond gobie and they seem to be doing great. No spots or abnormal behavior and they are eating well. I did about a 20% water change yesterday because the female maroon did not appear to have an ich problem yesterday and everything I have read says to do a water change ASAP after using the "ick attack" medicine. I do not understand if it is a disease or parasite etc how my other fish are completely unaffected to this point. It is not water quality, I have closely monitored that. The salinity is fairly stable at 1.023. The temperature varies from 75.4-77.2. If it was either of those two things I would assume my other fish would be affected right? Especially the chromis because 2 other ones have died already. I will try to post a pic of the clown later. IDK where to go from here! Help!!
 
silverado61

silverado61

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Was the temp of fresh water dip the exact same as the tank? That alone can put any fish into shock. Also, going from the tank to fresh water to the floor back to fresh water back to the tank will kill anything. As soon as it hit the floor you should have just put it back in the tank.
A fresh water dip will not get rid of ich.
Sorry for your losses.
 
silverado61

silverado61

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Hyposalinity is the only affective way to get rid of ich. That and leaving your tank fishless for 6-8 weeks will kill off the host living in the display.
Medicinal remedies just don't work on ich. You can use copper but not in the display. It will kill any inverts or coral you have and the residue left behind will make the display damned near impossible to keep inverts or corals in the future.
 
brandon17617

brandon17617

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I tried to put as little of the water from the store in my tank. I added my tank water to the bag a very small amount at a time and when I was getting close to releasing the fish into my tank I drained off as much of the water from the bag into the sink then added some more aquarium water, drained that down as much as I could and then added the fish. Also the dip water was very close in temperature. I wouldn't say exactly but within .5 degrees.
 
brandon17617

brandon17617

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I think I will wait for awhile before I try to add any fish. I plan to wait for at least a month. I will set up a small (10 gallon) quarantine tank in that time. When I am ready to add fish does anyone have suggestions? Assuming my orange diamond gobie and one remaining green chromis fish are still alive! I want something safe w inverts and corals. Again my tank is a 55 gallon.
 
jay0705

jay0705

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Ok pour them in a net then in the tank, or qt them b4 you add to your display. Now its just a waiting game. Atleast a month more is better. Now to the forum, if ich was present but does not effect remaining fish after the 6-8 wk wait would the tank be ich free?
 
jay0705

jay0705

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Ha ha ha I hear ya. Kid called me sir at the pet store the other day iam like wtf lol iam not even 4O! Lol
 
brandon17617

brandon17617

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So good news and bad news... whatever it was that tore through my tank has just killed my last chromis fish. It had bulged eyes and was very disoriented seeming. I know that bulged eyes thing is a tell tale sign of something just dont know what right now. Good news is the diamond gobie still seems to be doing great.... for now. I am wondering if this gobie lives for a week or two does it mean that whatever was in the tank probably left with the other fish? The chromis I took him out before he died thinking that maybe the parasite or whatever it was would come out with him and not have a chance to find a new host since it didn't have to. I will set up a QT this week or next... I am assuming that when I do that shouldnt take any of the cycled water from my display tank and put it in the QT? Being that there might be something bad in my display??? I havent ever had this happen before so I am not sure what to do now. Also will this crap that just wiped out my fish affect inverts? Like anemones or snails? I dont have either of those now just for future reference. Also when I do get an anemone or snails to I have to quarantine those?
 
jay0705

jay0705

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Ok lets start here. What ever it is , is prob still in the tank. I would get the qt going and keep it going incase u need it for the goby. This is my option, but if u need/ want to treat the goby I would use a copper based med, bc its a wide spectrum killer of nasties and your unsure what your dealing with.
Now to your invert question. Generally no fish diseases dont effect them, but fish meds will, so dont treat a tank w them in it. Should u qt them. If u want the safe answer yes! Not many people do. I do not, but iam anal where I buy mine from and there only kept in invert tanks no fish.
 
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