hellomynini
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My partner and I have been the proud owners of a 30 gallon FOWLR tank for about 5 months. We now have six 1-2 lb rocks, one 4 lb, 2 turbo snails, 5 nassarius snails (we originally bought 4 but they reproduced!), a cleaner shrimp, a clown fish, a sixline wrasse, and a strawberry pseudochromis. At first our strawberry behaved aggressively toward our sixline wrasse, but the clown fish usually acted as the mediator. We haven't noticed much aggressive behavior at all now that they are all older and bigger, but I fear our strawberry may be sick. He's become pale lately, and increasingly within the past week or so. The color loss/paleness is mostly uniform and it doesn't seem to be blotchy. He has been eating the same food, in fact he eats a lot when we feed them. We thought at first perhaps we were not feeding them enough, so we fed them a little more and he doesn't eat more now that he is given more food. He used to spend a lot of time in his little "cave", and he doesn't do that anymore. Neither of our other fish are behaving abnormally. Does anybody out there have any information that could help? I would greatly appreciate it. We are very worried and have been unable to get much help from the stores we frequent or even online.
Please help!
Thank you--
Just joined the community
My partner and I have been the proud owners of a 30 gallon FOWLR tank for about 5 months. We now have six 1-2 lb rocks, one 4 lb, 2 turbo snails, 5 nassarius snails (we originally bought 4 but they reproduced!), a cleaner shrimp, a clown fish, a sixline wrasse, and a strawberry pseudochromis. At first our strawberry behaved aggressively toward our sixline wrasse, but the clown fish usually acted as the mediator. We haven't noticed much aggressive behavior at all now that they are all older and bigger, but I fear our strawberry may be sick. He's become pale lately, and increasingly within the past week or so. The color loss/paleness is mostly uniform and it doesn't seem to be blotchy. He has been eating the same food, in fact he eats a lot when we feed them. We thought at first perhaps we were not feeding them enough, so we fed them a little more and he doesn't eat more now that he is given more food. He used to spend a lot of time in his little "cave", and he doesn't do that anymore. Neither of our other fish are behaving abnormally. Does anybody out there have any information that could help? I would greatly appreciate it. We are very worried and have been unable to get much help from the stores we frequent or even online. Please help!
Thank you--
