um help me!!

[tanggirl123]

i was just turning off my lights on my tank when i noticed like half of my green chromis torn open and very pink!!! hes got 5 other mates 2 other green chromises and 4 clown fish which are all basically smaller than him. what should i do should i remove him?? and what do you think is doing this to my poor fish i feel so bad for him!! any comments would be greatly apreciated before something worst happens to him !!
thanks
~kelly~

 

[pufferlover]

Depending whether there are lots of rocks it could have damaged itself on. Best guess tho is that some other fish took exception to this poor thing. I hate to say it but I would remove it since the injury you report is to severe to do much with unless you had a spare tank to move it to and try some treatment on it.

 

[jacrmill]

if you have a small hospital tank id put him in there and treat him with something that will prevent infection. but that wont really fix the problem cause youll eventually want to put him back in there and itll probably just happen again. this is unless he gets alot bigger. im confused about how many fish you have. do you have 4 clowns and 3 chromis? how big of a tank is this, what kind of clown fish?

 

[tanggirl123]

yes i have 4 clowns and 3 chromis in a 75 gallon tank i also have about 45 pounds of rock. my clownfish are ocellaris and they are smaller than all my chromis
thanks to all i think im gonna try to set up a small tank but i have no time i have school arrr!!! hehe but yeah thanks to you all
~kelly~

 

[tangman99]

I had this happen to an emperor snapper from my niger trigger. I picked up one of the small acrylic critter houses from a pet store. They are various sizes and have the snap-on vented tops with an acrylic door.
I drilled several holes in the acrylic container so that water could flow through it and placed my snapper securely in the containter. The container had a handle on top that I tied it to the center support bar on the upper frame of my 90 gallon. It was kind of an aquarium in an aquarium. He did not mind and he recovered nicely. When I fed the fish, I would open the lid to his container and put some food in it for him.
After about three weeks, his fins, eye and tail were healed and I released him. Unfortunately, the trigger went for him again and I had to return the trigger.
Tangman