I got an
Ocellaris Clownfish and he ate good and seemed to be doing well.
A few days ago I saw a red spot in the white stripe near his head and though maybe it bumped into a rock or something (he seemed a bit skittish from the start).
Yesterday he was acting sluggish, and saw stringy poo. I noticed more red spots (only on the white band by its head) and a couple of possible ICK spots.
So I put him in a separate tank with a SG of 1.010 and I put some ICK (Aquarium Products Quick Cure) medicine in as per directions 1 drop per gal.
Last night he was acting distressed so I raised the SG to 1.02 seemed to be doing great.
Then today he died
I’d like to figure out what he had as it did not seem like ICK but I don’t know.
Did I mess him up by using hypo salinity (low SG)?
Did the Medicine do him in???
This is a fairly new 75 gal tank that was started with live rock & live sand.
SG - 1.024
Temp - 80F
Ammonia – 0
Nitrite – 0
Nitrate – 0
Currently I have in the tank:
18 hermit Crabs
3 Mithrax Crabs
30 Snails (6 Nassarius, Trochus, 12 Astraea)
1 Sea Urchin
1
Scooter Blenny
All of them are doing great.
Thank you.
