Centennialaqua
07/20/2013, 08:02 AM
I woke up this morning to find my CBB vertical in the corner of my aquarium, not moving, breathing fast. At first I though he was sleeping so I manually turned on the lights but he still didn't move. Assuming he was dead (I couldn't see his mouth or gills moving) I went to take him out and he moved away but he was very disoriented. He made his was to the top of the aquarium and laid down on a rock for a while but now he has himself jammed between two rocks. He still moves a bit but I think he is on his way out. My wife is checking the water right now but we did have a spike in nitrates recently (just above 40 ppm). Everyone else in the tank (including coral and two leopard wrasses) are doing fine. Any suggestions? Should I move him into a bucket since I don't have a quarantine tank? Any advice would be appreciated. He has been our most active and friendly fish and its going to be sad to loose him....