kleach
03/30/2014, 10:00 AM
Hi,
Yesterday I was looking at my flame angel and he looked fine. In fact, I was paying particular attention to his stripes because I realized that his stripes were mis-barred compared to other flames and I thought it was pretty cool. He was swimming, eating and being himself.
Today, as I went to begin my water change on the tank I saw him staying in a little cave and breathing heavily. I then noticed that there was an open sore right along the last stripe closest to his tail-fin. My first reaction was maybe a rock fel on him and hurt him, but thats not the case. He is hovering there, came out for about 30 seconds when i turned the light on, took one lap and went right back into the cave.
I immediately did my water change (5 gallons on a 29 gallon biocube) and removed all gfo and carbon and dosed with ruby reef Rally medication for bacterial infections. I tried feeding the tank and he showed no interest in eating. In general he is a pig and is pleasantly plump.
i would take a picture but these no way the camera could capture the sore since he is shaded in the rock work. Any Ideas????
Tank Information:
29 gallon biocube (my QT tank)
2 black ice clowns and a royal gramma
Had a swalesi basslet for 2 weeks which died (my assumption was starvation because he was super skinny and nearly impossible to get to eat)
Had flame angel in there for months alone because he ate my coral in DT and added other fish about a month ago.
Tested for ammonia only (time crunch) and it was zero
5 Gallon weekly water changes for the past month to cut down on waste from new fish.
Yesterday I was looking at my flame angel and he looked fine. In fact, I was paying particular attention to his stripes because I realized that his stripes were mis-barred compared to other flames and I thought it was pretty cool. He was swimming, eating and being himself.
Today, as I went to begin my water change on the tank I saw him staying in a little cave and breathing heavily. I then noticed that there was an open sore right along the last stripe closest to his tail-fin. My first reaction was maybe a rock fel on him and hurt him, but thats not the case. He is hovering there, came out for about 30 seconds when i turned the light on, took one lap and went right back into the cave.
I immediately did my water change (5 gallons on a 29 gallon biocube) and removed all gfo and carbon and dosed with ruby reef Rally medication for bacterial infections. I tried feeding the tank and he showed no interest in eating. In general he is a pig and is pleasantly plump.
i would take a picture but these no way the camera could capture the sore since he is shaded in the rock work. Any Ideas????
Tank Information:
29 gallon biocube (my QT tank)
2 black ice clowns and a royal gramma
Had a swalesi basslet for 2 weeks which died (my assumption was starvation because he was super skinny and nearly impossible to get to eat)
Had flame angel in there for months alone because he ate my coral in DT and added other fish about a month ago.
Tested for ammonia only (time crunch) and it was zero
5 Gallon weekly water changes for the past month to cut down on waste from new fish.