I purchased 2 clown fish almost a month ago and they appeared to be doing well. Then this morning both of them are dead.
My water parameters are 79 degrees, 1.023, 0 ammonia, nitrate & nitrite, phosphate is .25, 10 dkh, 400 calcium. I have 2 firefish, 2 clown gobies and a yellow shrimp goby in there as well and they all are fine.
I had them in my qt for 2 weeks and they seemed fine so I moved them over. The only thing I "noticed" was that their fins went from almost completely transparent to slightly cloudy but I assumed it was because I have bad lighting in my qt and just didn't see it. They didn't appear to have any marks or growths but their gills did seem a little puffed out.
I tried 2 clowns originally and they died too. The LFS said thy had a problem with that batch of clowns and told us not to put any other clowns in our dt for a month. But that was almost 3 months ago.
Any ideas? It's really my son's tank and he's devastated that we've now killed 4 clown fish.
Thanks,
Shawn
My water parameters are 79 degrees, 1.023, 0 ammonia, nitrate & nitrite, phosphate is .25, 10 dkh, 400 calcium. I have 2 firefish, 2 clown gobies and a yellow shrimp goby in there as well and they all are fine.
I had them in my qt for 2 weeks and they seemed fine so I moved them over. The only thing I "noticed" was that their fins went from almost completely transparent to slightly cloudy but I assumed it was because I have bad lighting in my qt and just didn't see it. They didn't appear to have any marks or growths but their gills did seem a little puffed out.
I tried 2 clowns originally and they died too. The LFS said thy had a problem with that batch of clowns and told us not to put any other clowns in our dt for a month. But that was almost 3 months ago.
Any ideas? It's really my son's tank and he's devastated that we've now killed 4 clown fish.
Thanks,
Shawn