starypotter
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Hi everyone,
This morning I woke up to find that one of my clown gobies had died. He has been being held in a 29 gallon with 23 actual gallons of water, other inhabitants include- 3 other clown gobies, 1-neon goby, 1 kaudern's cardinal, 2-clownfish, 1-midas blenny. This was their QT tank, but since DT has sprung a leak they are in there a bit longer than expected. Tank is fully cycled and still has an ammonia alert badge reading 0. Fish were treated with prazi and metro. There have been no additions to the tank, and they have all been living harmoniously together since August. I did top off the tank last night with rather cold RO water from my storage bucket but I can't imagine that would be enough to kill the poor thing would it? I always pour into the stream coming out of the HOB filters right by the heater so that it'll kick on to heat things back up.
My guess is to suspect is his change in color, or rather whatever that cause was. This one's name was Little Blue, because despite being a 'green' clown goby, the coloration was always rather light, an almost pale blue/green, and the red marks were never really very deep, they were very light sometimes only looking a shade darker than the rest of him. Almost two weeks ago I had noticed that he was looking quite translucent, but he was behaving normal so I brushed it off as me not being as observant, or just how fish change colors sometimes. Then yesterday I noticed that the red lines had turned a very dark red, I don't know if they changed yesterday, I'm not the only one who feeds the fish so I don't always see every fish every day.
There's also the tiny black spot by the gill, I can't really see what it is very well but if you think it's going to be very important I'll go take a closer look.
This morning I woke up to find that one of my clown gobies had died. He has been being held in a 29 gallon with 23 actual gallons of water, other inhabitants include- 3 other clown gobies, 1-neon goby, 1 kaudern's cardinal, 2-clownfish, 1-midas blenny. This was their QT tank, but since DT has sprung a leak they are in there a bit longer than expected. Tank is fully cycled and still has an ammonia alert badge reading 0. Fish were treated with prazi and metro. There have been no additions to the tank, and they have all been living harmoniously together since August. I did top off the tank last night with rather cold RO water from my storage bucket but I can't imagine that would be enough to kill the poor thing would it? I always pour into the stream coming out of the HOB filters right by the heater so that it'll kick on to heat things back up.
My guess is to suspect is his change in color, or rather whatever that cause was. This one's name was Little Blue, because despite being a 'green' clown goby, the coloration was always rather light, an almost pale blue/green, and the red marks were never really very deep, they were very light sometimes only looking a shade darker than the rest of him. Almost two weeks ago I had noticed that he was looking quite translucent, but he was behaving normal so I brushed it off as me not being as observant, or just how fish change colors sometimes. Then yesterday I noticed that the red lines had turned a very dark red, I don't know if they changed yesterday, I'm not the only one who feeds the fish so I don't always see every fish every day.
There's also the tiny black spot by the gill, I can't really see what it is very well but if you think it's going to be very important I'll go take a closer look.
Beautiful fish.
