Sick clownfish. Need help

Melinda01 · Feb 11, 2018

I added a clownfish to the tank about a month ago. He was eating and swimming around like I would expect until a couple of days ago. Since then he is hovering just above the sand, will not eat, andappears to be gasping. I also just had a newly added cleaner shrimp (added 4 days ago) die today. There are no visible signs of illness (no white spots,difference in color, etc). Any idea what may be going on? I just put her in the QT tank today while doing a water change and added API general care medication because I have no idea what is wrong.
Parameters are
Nitrate 0.5
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
Ph 8.2
AlK 8.6
Mag 1350
Ca 430
Temp 75-78 (varies with the lights being off or on)
Livestock

Clownfish
Purple pseudochromis
Yellow watchman goby
Half black angel
Yellow tang
Pajama cardinal

5 peppermint shrimp
2 fire shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp (now)

3 blue leg hermits
10 red leg hermits
2 tuxedo urchins
1 long spine urchin
A few snails

72 gallon tank with 20 gallon sump
Protein skimmer and bio balls
100lbs live rock and live sand
Tank has been up and running approximately 5 years
Dose 45 mL vodka daily because I was having nitrate issues but they have resolved
I’ve been Changeing 25 gallons weekly with 6 stage rodi reading 0 tds

Crabs McJones · Feb 11, 2018

For starters, thank you tremendously for all the information about your tank right away

have you noticed any bullying by the yellow tang or angel? In a 72 that's alot of potential aggression and when you add a new fish into an area that is all claimed they may he bullying him. Any pictures of the little guy by chance?

Melinda01 · Feb 11, 2018

crabs_mcjones said:
For starters, thank you tremendously for all the information about your tank right away have you noticed any bullying by the yellow tang or angel? In a 72 that's alot of potential aggression and when you add a new fish into an area that is all claimed they may he bullying him. Any pictures of the little guy by chance?

The other fish never seemed to bother her. Actually quite the opposite. She was following the tang and angel around the tank like they were all pals. Lol. They would all fed off the algae clip together and none ever showed signs of aggression. Actually the YWG acts like the grump. He swells up like he’s gonna kick some butt every time anything but the shrimp come near him. I actually tried posting a video but for some reason I couldn’t get it to load.