AH Help, fish dead, others dying
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Im very sorry for your losses Mandy
In that first link it says fish tend to "Toy" with their food by eating their food and spitting it back out. My clowns eat their Oraglo pellets by sucking them in and spitting them out until they are small enough and soft enough for them to eat. The pellets are too big for their little mouths.
In that first link it says fish tend to "Toy" with their food by eating their food and spitting it back out. My clowns eat their Oraglo pellets by sucking them in and spitting them out until they are small enough and soft enough for them to eat. The pellets are too big for their little mouths.
Thanks everyone. Camera is charging so hopefully I can get a shot of one or the other.
Just did the freshwater dip on the clowns. They didn't quite like it. So, question is when considering "distress", what would constitute distress. Each of them wound up laying over like they were dead then all of a sudden trying to jump out of it. i was a little afraid I killed them so they weren't in long, but more than just like a few seconds more like a few minutes.
The clowns do resemble the appearance of mucus like the first picture of the clown on Chuck's website. I was in search of that earlier today but I could not track it down. Thank you.
I do have formalin coming tomorrow from my bigal's order so I am going to cross my fingers and go that route.
Just did the freshwater dip on the clowns. They didn't quite like it. So, question is when considering "distress", what would constitute distress. Each of them wound up laying over like they were dead then all of a sudden trying to jump out of it. i was a little afraid I killed them so they weren't in long, but more than just like a few seconds more like a few minutes.
The clowns do resemble the appearance of mucus like the first picture of the clown on Chuck's website. I was in search of that earlier today but I could not track it down. Thank you.
I do have formalin coming tomorrow from my bigal's order so I am going to cross my fingers and go that route.
Yes please do. I think sometimes those around us that don't keep tanks don't understand how really stressful it is when something like happens to our fish or inverts.
exactly. my bf thinks I'm concerned about the money of restocking . . . erm no.
Those little boogers managed to move just enough in every shot out of 50 that there was a blur. tomorrow, when I catch them I will try to get them in a tiny amount of water in the clear fish capture thing i use where they won't be moving around so much. on another note, I finally figured out my macro settings. . .
Those little boogers managed to move just enough in every shot out of 50 that there was a blur. tomorrow, when I catch them I will try to get them in a tiny amount of water in the clear fish capture thing i use where they won't be moving around so much. on another note, I finally figured out my macro settings. . .
Well, both clowns were dead this morning. I'm quite sad about that. All that remains in that 75 gallon in terms of fish is my radiant wrasse. I'm going this morning to get a massive net in order to catch him to get him in QT to let the tank go fishless. Whatever this was wiped out $250 worth of fish. I'm putting a positive spin on it and looking forward to getting it restocked (with proper quarantine first) so the main tank will be fishless for more like 10 weeks or so.
Mandy I so hate this for you and your tank. I'm glad it hasn't gotten the better of you and you're going to restock with changes you think are for the better.
