poor little clownfish

[drkegel]

Ran into a problem last night with my new tank. Put 8 pund piece of live rock into tank last night to attempt to help cycle faster. Got home from LFS at about 8 pm, put rock in (already cured) ate dinner, checked fish at 9 pm, noticed littlest clownfish (name was PeeWee) had stringy, cottony stuff on him, looked like fungus of some sort. LFS closed by this time, the only thing I could do was remove him from tank, put in hospital tank and gave him a dose of Stress Coat (all I had at the time). Poor little guy didn't make it. Note to self, buy disease treament stuff same day as buying fish. (Didn't think the freshwater medicine I have would've done anything, but didn't think of it until now.) Was very stupid of me. On a positive note, the LR I got is goregeous, and has lots of cool little stuff crawling around on it. Won't be getting any more fish until the tank completes its cycle.

 

[becky]

DrKegal, Read what you wrote a day or so ago. Sorry about that one person being kinda rude. I got the same reply from that person when i said i put live fish in my tank. I think we are at the same stages in our tanks. Just wnated to say don't feel bad, i lost one of my blue damsels also. I am not sure weather it was the water condition, or a possible small white mark on him from another fish. Anyways i know how you feel!
Becky

 

[jacrmill]

is this a conspiracy? i wasnt being rude to her or you. if you go back and read that post someone said they were FOR using live fish. since they said that i wanted to throw in that i was AGAINST using live fish. there was no rude tone or anything. i didnt say anything bad about you or what you were doing, just giving out another option to a different person who might have been reading that post wondering about cycling their tank. i was not being rude even a little and for you to say so is ridiculous. the response i gave was simply a different point of view, that does not mean rude.

 

[jacrmill]

also to DRKegel, if you are going to buy medecine in advance i would buy maracynI and/or maracyn II. fish medicines can get expensive very fast and the 2 maracynes are both very effective and both treat a good amount of different problems. just thought id let u know, cause my fish store has shelves of different fish meds. id also avoid using something called melafix. i used it and it didnt help at all, ive also read many bad posts about it. also dont feel bad about the fish. if he did that night then all the medicine in the world wouldnt have saved him.
[ August 30, 2001: Message edited by: jacrmill ]

 

[ocellaris_keeper]

I went through kinda the same thing - Cycled my tank with LR/LS and used Damsels. Then I added clowns and two beautiful pigmy angels. Everything was great until I went to London for a week and came back and all had ich. I didn't understand what to do, consequently I lost all of my fish.
Get yourself some Green-X ( a little bottle costs about $5-10) and add it to your tank when you add new fish.
I hope this helps - it's a bummer to lose any animal.
Brewski

 

[jacrmill]

though it may work for you BUD, personally i wouldnt medicate my show take unless it was absolutely necessary. if you want to prevent ich you can soak the fish food in garlic, that should boost their immune system.
[ August 31, 2001: Message edited by: jacrmill ]