My fish are dead
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kev.2013
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it was a different thread.
please help my clowns have ich
Today I noticed many white spots all over my clown's body. I am new to the hobby and don't want to use copper.
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Being 100% honest, it just doesn’t seem like they knew what they were doing. If you look at other threads they started, it was about a 75g build then a 40g build all while having issues with their 14g. And they need to slow their roll, but you can only tell someone something so much.
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Just my two cents... I used to keep my tank around the 75F temp but have recently moved it to between 78 - 80, tank occupants seem to be happier.
I've had 35g tanks for over 25 years and I've never been able to keep any tang alive for very long. Had great success with clown fish and angel fish.
Also, whenever one of my fish would get a disease, even if treated etc. it would eventually die, so that could of been the issue as well. The treatment is usually more stress than the disease.
I've had 35g tanks for over 25 years and I've never been able to keep any tang alive for very long. Had great success with clown fish and angel fish.
Also, whenever one of my fish would get a disease, even if treated etc. it would eventually die, so that could of been the issue as well. The treatment is usually more stress than the disease.
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Wonder if cleaning your tank you maybe siphon sand too much and kick up ton of detritus buried in sand and spiked ur tank. Or maybe you had some disease that sat a while until stress level went too far. Few things kill with ZERO sign other than occasionally velvet gets their gills.
So temp and electricity. Also what’s ur salinity? Maybe too much RO during water change went hypo and killed them.
So temp and electricity. Also what’s ur salinity? Maybe too much RO during water change went hypo and killed them.
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I meant the current 2 fish.it was a different thread.
please help my clowns have ich
Today I noticed many white spots all over my clown's body. I am new to the hobby and don't want to use copper.
Being 100% honest, it just doesn’t seem like they knew what they were doing. If you look at other threads they started, it was about a 75g build then a 40g build all while having issues with their 14g. And they need to slow their roll, but you can only tell someone something so much.
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What I got out of this hodgepodge is: The previous clown had ich, was put in QT with “some” cupermine and then put back in the display before treatment was complete & Without the display run fallow for 76 days. Additional fish were added to the display that originally had ich.
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That's the feeling I'm getting too. Playing around so much without first researching and understanding best practices and the best approach will ultimately lead to frustration and death. Fish lives matter.it was a different thread.
please help my clowns have ich
Today I noticed many white spots all over my clown's body. I am new to the hobby and don't want to use copper.
Being 100% honest, it just doesn’t seem like they knew what they were doing. If you look at other threads they started, it was about a 75g build then a 40g build all while having issues with their 14g. And they need to slow their roll, but you can only tell someone something so much.
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it was a different thread.
please help my clowns have ich
Today I noticed many white spots all over my clown's body. I am new to the hobby and don't want to use copper.
Being 100% honest, it just doesn’t seem like they knew what they were doing. If you look at other threads they started, it was about a 75g build then a 40g build all while having issues with their 14g. And they need to slow their roll, but you can only tell someone something so much.
I mean, we all didn't know what we were doing at some point. I commend him for trying to find answers. It is sad that it is at the expense of the fish, but hopefully he'll figure it out and we'll have decades of beautiful tanks to look forward to from him. Sometimes we just don't know what we don't know.
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Brandon is basically saying that in a small tank like your 14gal prevention is even more important and stocking needs to be done slow and with care. With the small space its easy to add too many or not the correct fish and stress everything out. If any one animal has a hidden aliment like a parasite, its easier to stress this animal, if they die its easy to start a snowball reaction in the tank due to the resulting ammonia spike, more stress, more death, etc etc. Im not saying that this is what happened but can absolutely testify that a small tank is suspect to such things.
I would run the tank as is for a week or two and ensure everything still seems healthy, maybe stock coral if those are doing well. After a few weeks of health try those clownfish again if you still want to. For a tank that size your likely looking at 2-3 fish so id look long and hard and choose carefully.
On a side note, ime clownfish and tangs are both territorial fish i personally wouldn't try to keep them together in the small space even if the tang was small.
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