shinosuke
01/18/2006, 04:38 PM
Hi,
I have a rose antenna (red banded) goby that I am concerned about. It has an inflamed red hue to its gills, and its stomach is very red and nasty looking. It's eating just fine and acting like normal.
It's in a 55 gallon reef tank with misc. inverts, crabs, snails, and a few corals. The only other fish inhabitant is a firefish, who has been added recently, but they usually stay pretty far away from each other. The firefish looks fine.
I feed wardleys shrimp pellets to the shrimp and crabs (I've got a bigger cleanup crew than I really need, so I suppliment), but I've noticed the goby occasionally taking a bite out of the pellets as they drop, which the firefish does not do.
I feed both the fish a frozen food, I think it's marine cuisine or something like that, it's frozen cubes of mixed meat stuff. Lots of brine and little chunks of fish and squid, stuff like that. I thaw out 1/3 of a cube in a cup of tank water, then use a turkey baster to feed the fish. I do that on average every other day.
All of the tank spec.s are checking out fine to me (meaning no or barely any ammonia, nitrates, etc.), salinity is @ 1.024 - 1.025. I've had the fish over a month and I just recently noticed the problem, but I've been out of town and very busy recently, so I haven't had much time to look at the tank and could not say when the problem began.
Any diagnosis or treament would be appreciated.
~Adam D.
I have a rose antenna (red banded) goby that I am concerned about. It has an inflamed red hue to its gills, and its stomach is very red and nasty looking. It's eating just fine and acting like normal.
It's in a 55 gallon reef tank with misc. inverts, crabs, snails, and a few corals. The only other fish inhabitant is a firefish, who has been added recently, but they usually stay pretty far away from each other. The firefish looks fine.
I feed wardleys shrimp pellets to the shrimp and crabs (I've got a bigger cleanup crew than I really need, so I suppliment), but I've noticed the goby occasionally taking a bite out of the pellets as they drop, which the firefish does not do.
I feed both the fish a frozen food, I think it's marine cuisine or something like that, it's frozen cubes of mixed meat stuff. Lots of brine and little chunks of fish and squid, stuff like that. I thaw out 1/3 of a cube in a cup of tank water, then use a turkey baster to feed the fish. I do that on average every other day.
All of the tank spec.s are checking out fine to me (meaning no or barely any ammonia, nitrates, etc.), salinity is @ 1.024 - 1.025. I've had the fish over a month and I just recently noticed the problem, but I've been out of town and very busy recently, so I haven't had much time to look at the tank and could not say when the problem began.
Any diagnosis or treament would be appreciated.
~Adam D.