hazard345
12/15/2006, 06:49 PM
First off, here are the specs on my tank. 70g, with 40lbs of crushed coral, 40lbs of live sand, 80lbs of live rock, 2 Clownfish, 1 Whitebelly Damsel, 1 Blue damsel, 1 firefish, and 1 Six Line Wrasse. Several misc corals, such as, 2 maze brain corals, 1 flat brain coral, 1 large cabbage coral, 1 galaxy coral (at least it resembles a red galaxy coral), 1 cup coral, 1 sun coral and some misc star polyps. Around 5 or 6 hermit crabs left (blue and red), 15 assorted snails (turbo, nassarius, cerith, margarita), 1 Cleaner Shrimp, 1 Peppermint Shrimp and 1 Mandarin shrimp, 1 Green Urchin, 1 Tuxedo Urchin, and 1 purple lobster.
Ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0, Nitrate is 1, PH is 8.2, temp is 78ยบ.
Tonight while me and the g/f were eating dinner, she looked at the clown, (while I was looking at the shrimp) and she said, OMG is that clownfish missing his fin?!? So I walked up to the aquarium and looked closer and said yeah, thinking that maybe the purple lobster got ahold of him, but I don't think it was him, because these guys stay at the top of the tank 90% of the time.
Then I walked away to look through my fish medicine, and the only one I could find is melafix. She said he had open wounds like scratches on his one side, and when I walked over, sure enough he did. But one thing is, he's swimming around like nothing had happened to him. So I added about 3/4 of a dose of melafix, and prepaired some water for a water change tomorrow. I noticed that the white belly damsel has been chasing everything in the tank, and he's been changing into adult colors lately (faint black vertical stripes).
Well anyway, I don't have a quarantine tank, nor do I have room to set up a quarantine tank in my house. I've had all my fish together in the aquarium for well over a year and this is the first problem like this I've ever had. I wanted to know, is there anything I can add to the tank that will help the clownfish heal? Was it safe for me to add melafix? The container says for fresh and saltwater. I also realized melafix is an antibacterial remedy so I put in a brand new bio chemzorb pad in my filter to try and pull some of it out. Does anyone else have any suggestions of what I could do, or any advice in general?
Ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0, Nitrate is 1, PH is 8.2, temp is 78ยบ.
Tonight while me and the g/f were eating dinner, she looked at the clown, (while I was looking at the shrimp) and she said, OMG is that clownfish missing his fin?!? So I walked up to the aquarium and looked closer and said yeah, thinking that maybe the purple lobster got ahold of him, but I don't think it was him, because these guys stay at the top of the tank 90% of the time.
Then I walked away to look through my fish medicine, and the only one I could find is melafix. She said he had open wounds like scratches on his one side, and when I walked over, sure enough he did. But one thing is, he's swimming around like nothing had happened to him. So I added about 3/4 of a dose of melafix, and prepaired some water for a water change tomorrow. I noticed that the white belly damsel has been chasing everything in the tank, and he's been changing into adult colors lately (faint black vertical stripes).
Well anyway, I don't have a quarantine tank, nor do I have room to set up a quarantine tank in my house. I've had all my fish together in the aquarium for well over a year and this is the first problem like this I've ever had. I wanted to know, is there anything I can add to the tank that will help the clownfish heal? Was it safe for me to add melafix? The container says for fresh and saltwater. I also realized melafix is an antibacterial remedy so I put in a brand new bio chemzorb pad in my filter to try and pull some of it out. Does anyone else have any suggestions of what I could do, or any advice in general?