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Tank is roughly 3 weeks old but was cycled with live sand and bottled bacteria.
Tank Perimeters:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 5-10 ppm
2 Clownfish were introduced 3 days later and have been in the tank for a little less than 3 weeks. Started off perfectly fine, eating like pigs and swimming no problem.
Last week I noticed both clownfish had long white stringy poop, based online, wasn't a concern, blamed it on the high protein pellets, said I would feed more frozen shrimp...
Also 1 of them started swimming vertically the entire day, except when it was time to eat, would swim straight no problem. Again based online, was a clownfish thing, no concern.
Now for the past 48 hours I have noticed neither fish will eat anymore, they will almost like smell the food and do nothing with it, or spit out the food and do nothing.
1 is swimming fine, other is still vertical. So no eating, white poop and vertical swimming.
Is this parasitic? Worms?
Suggestions on the best and easiest method to fix them up, no coral in the tank, just rock with a goby and pistol shrimp.
Thank you!
Tank Perimeters:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 5-10 ppm
2 Clownfish were introduced 3 days later and have been in the tank for a little less than 3 weeks. Started off perfectly fine, eating like pigs and swimming no problem.
Last week I noticed both clownfish had long white stringy poop, based online, wasn't a concern, blamed it on the high protein pellets, said I would feed more frozen shrimp...
Also 1 of them started swimming vertically the entire day, except when it was time to eat, would swim straight no problem. Again based online, was a clownfish thing, no concern.
Now for the past 48 hours I have noticed neither fish will eat anymore, they will almost like smell the food and do nothing with it, or spit out the food and do nothing.
1 is swimming fine, other is still vertical. So no eating, white poop and vertical swimming.
Is this parasitic? Worms?
Suggestions on the best and easiest method to fix them up, no coral in the tank, just rock with a goby and pistol shrimp.
Thank you!