s & j fisher
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I bought 2 Percula Clownfish (wild) yesterday. After acclimating them the way that the site instructed me to, I placed them into the tank. At first they did the usual freaked out routine of swimming in one spot and breathing funny (not rapidly, but not normal either) - I made the mistake of leaving the light on when I put them into the tank (I heard that was bad?). After several hours they seemed to be alright, but when I checked on them this morning I noticed that one of them had died. The other clownfish is ok and doing fine and so are my other fish.
I checked my water after I had put them in & everything came out ok. All results were fine. Heat was perfect. Everything was good. I have a 55 gal. tank & the only other fish I had in there with him was another clown fish, foxface, blue hippo tang, some hermit crabs, and 2 starfish.
Could he have just been so stressed that he couldn't handle it?
Another concern is I'm hearing alot of different views about powerheads and skimmers. I had asked earlier in another forum about my powerhead producing millions of tiny oxygen bubbles into my tank which was distracting and actually gathering on my fish and that my skimmer was producing bubbles because it hadn't been broken in yet...
Any suggestions/thoughts on those? Could he have died from lack of oxygen? I'd adjusted my powerhead to where it was moving the water, but there weren't any oxyen bubbles like before.
I checked my water after I had put them in & everything came out ok. All results were fine. Heat was perfect. Everything was good. I have a 55 gal. tank & the only other fish I had in there with him was another clown fish, foxface, blue hippo tang, some hermit crabs, and 2 starfish.
Could he have just been so stressed that he couldn't handle it?
Another concern is I'm hearing alot of different views about powerheads and skimmers. I had asked earlier in another forum about my powerhead producing millions of tiny oxygen bubbles into my tank which was distracting and actually gathering on my fish and that my skimmer was producing bubbles because it hadn't been broken in yet...
Any suggestions/thoughts on those? Could he have died from lack of oxygen? I'd adjusted my powerhead to where it was moving the water, but there weren't any oxyen bubbles like before.