Hey guys.. after 9 weeks of running fishless due to what seemed like velvet I got this qted little guy yesterday to help with an amphipod problem I am currently having (due to being fishless for so long) which is bothering my corals. Is this breathing normal? I suppose that on a healthy fish I should not be able to notice when it is breathing. The water is a bit cloudy but the salifert test for oxygen still measures above normal levels (tbh I think it is unreliable). I have even added a powerhead at the top to help with oxygenation. The breathing from times to times gets a bit heavier. A blood shrimp has been living in there since janurary and a tuxedo urchin since february. Prior to being added to DT the fish was not breathing like that. Water is RO/DI. I needed to get a fish in there asap because my nutrients are near 0 and corals do not like that. Ghost feeding results to massive brown algae growth. I might be exaggerating but if this fish dies after this long, tbh I might as well just give up at this point. I literally add new corals in there and they are open within 1-2 hours, yet fish always struggle.
