I came home from work today and my angler that I just gotten in and acclimated yesterday was sitting upside down almost floating off the sand kinda going with the flow when last night he had been acting normal properly latched onto a rock just doing his angler thing. Saw him crawling around a little.
Inspecting him for awhile I was almost 100% sure he was dead. Even took him out of the tank, thank God it didnt look like he'd swallowed any air. but when I put him back he'd have sudden short jolts when I gently tried to move him towards the rockwork and then just stay static in whatever position he was.
It looks like there might be something growing off of him, I literally just saw him open up his mouth and close it like he was gulping****************, this is really weird first experience with one of these. I have him perched up on a rock right now and he's sticking there
, I moved him to a lower flow area of the tank and sectioned it off keeping it away from light.
I hear it's common for these to be under fed but I was going to wait a day or two to try to feed him. I'm taking my tank parameters right now but when I did the acclimation everything was good the only other thing in the tank is a pistol shrimp and a small Toby puffer which has been separated from the angler the entire time. I'll post a picture
What should I do? I think it could be stress related. I am considering running a small carbon reactor I'm the off chance that there's some sort of toxin from the puffer but the puffer seems to be doing great.
Inspecting him for awhile I was almost 100% sure he was dead. Even took him out of the tank, thank God it didnt look like he'd swallowed any air. but when I put him back he'd have sudden short jolts when I gently tried to move him towards the rockwork and then just stay static in whatever position he was.
It looks like there might be something growing off of him, I literally just saw him open up his mouth and close it like he was gulping****************, this is really weird first experience with one of these. I have him perched up on a rock right now and he's sticking there
I hear it's common for these to be under fed but I was going to wait a day or two to try to feed him. I'm taking my tank parameters right now but when I did the acclimation everything was good the only other thing in the tank is a pistol shrimp and a small Toby puffer which has been separated from the angler the entire time. I'll post a picture
What should I do? I think it could be stress related. I am considering running a small carbon reactor I'm the off chance that there's some sort of toxin from the puffer but the puffer seems to be doing great.
