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Ben34105
12/21/2009, 10:31 AM
Last night one of my clowns started to look a little pale. Today most of my fish are pale. I tested the water and only the phosphates are elevated. I have phosban in taking care of that. What would make my fish turn pale?
thegrun
12/21/2009, 10:44 AM
Water Parameters out of range
Poor Nutrition (usually a lack of either meats or algae/seaweed)
Lighting too high or too low
Ben34105
12/21/2009, 10:47 AM
Ammonia, nitrates, salinity and calcium check out. Just the phosphates are high.
The lights are 2 blue actinics, 1 white actinic and 1 75.25. They run 8 hours a day and my tank is 30" deep. No MHs. Is the lighting ok?
I feed them frozen mysis and the tang gets the algae sheets. Maybe I got a spoiled batch of mysis?
All of my inverts and CUC are doing ok.
smcfall176
12/21/2009, 10:58 AM
The lights are fine for the fish. I would suggest to change food if this has only started since you have been using it. Also do a water change that can never hurt.
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