Well generally I am kind of a lurker on the forums here, but I have had an ongoing problem with my yellow rabbitfish for a couple months now with little success, so I thought I might get some second opinions.
The fish is as stated above, a 5" yellow rabbitfish that I have had since April '10. A couple months after I purchased it, I noticed the fins had developed some problem areas and I assumed I was undernourishing the fish since I was only putting seaweed on clips in the tank every few days and filling in the gaps with brine/mysid shrimp. So I got on a strict regimen of putting seaweed clips in the tank every day in addition to sporatic feedings of brine/mysid hoping it would cure the problem. Unfortunately it has not and it is still bugging me. Otherwise the fish appears to be perfectly healthy and happy. He is in a 55g tank with a grouper about his size and a fimbriated moray. The only other inhabitants of the tank are frags of my one tree coral that is overgrowing my 30g reef tank. There is about 60 lbs of live rock in the tank running with a fluval 404 (just for carbon and chemipure, no other media), a Hydor Koralia powerhead, and I use a surface skimmer on the canister filter intake.
I keep the temperature of the tank around 77 degrees F, specific gravity is around 1.023-1.024, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrates are a little high around 20-30 ppm based on one of the API test kits.
Any suggestions? I have a bottle of melafix, but I tend to resist using chemical additives in my tanks unless absolutely necessary...
The fish is as stated above, a 5" yellow rabbitfish that I have had since April '10. A couple months after I purchased it, I noticed the fins had developed some problem areas and I assumed I was undernourishing the fish since I was only putting seaweed on clips in the tank every few days and filling in the gaps with brine/mysid shrimp. So I got on a strict regimen of putting seaweed clips in the tank every day in addition to sporatic feedings of brine/mysid hoping it would cure the problem. Unfortunately it has not and it is still bugging me. Otherwise the fish appears to be perfectly healthy and happy. He is in a 55g tank with a grouper about his size and a fimbriated moray. The only other inhabitants of the tank are frags of my one tree coral that is overgrowing my 30g reef tank. There is about 60 lbs of live rock in the tank running with a fluval 404 (just for carbon and chemipure, no other media), a Hydor Koralia powerhead, and I use a surface skimmer on the canister filter intake.
I keep the temperature of the tank around 77 degrees F, specific gravity is around 1.023-1.024, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrates are a little high around 20-30 ppm based on one of the API test kits.
Any suggestions? I have a bottle of melafix, but I tend to resist using chemical additives in my tanks unless absolutely necessary...