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First a brief history. I had a damsel that I cycled with. After 6 weeks everything was fine so I decided to add a clown fish. The clown was fine at first, but about 1 week started to act like he was going to die. He had labored breathing, and sat on the bottom of the tank, and swam almost vertically. I added some lr to the tank for the first time, and literally overnight the clown was fine. During this whole time the only water parameter that was out of line (after cycling of course) was Nitrates (but never higher than 40). All that was prob a 4 weeks ago.
Anyway, the damsel started showing his true colors and began picking on the clown so I returned him to the lfs I originally bought him from. That was about 10 days ago. Then Thursday night I came home and my clown had a light grey film covering his body, including his eyes. There were whitish splotches, but not white spots like ich, as well. Anyway, this morining (Sat.) he's dead.
If it were any kind of parasite (brookynella, etc.), would leaving my tank fish free kill off any remaining threat? I still have 2 nassarius, 2 turbos, and 1 starfish.
What about running the salinity to 1.009 and the T to 30 C? Would that kill my remaining livestock?
Anyway, the damsel started showing his true colors and began picking on the clown so I returned him to the lfs I originally bought him from. That was about 10 days ago. Then Thursday night I came home and my clown had a light grey film covering his body, including his eyes. There were whitish splotches, but not white spots like ich, as well. Anyway, this morining (Sat.) he's dead.
If it were any kind of parasite (brookynella, etc.), would leaving my tank fish free kill off any remaining threat? I still have 2 nassarius, 2 turbos, and 1 starfish.
What about running the salinity to 1.009 and the T to 30 C? Would that kill my remaining livestock?
