Dear Reef2Reef Community,
I run a nano cube reef tank with mostly LPS since Feb 2021. After decades of fresh water, this is my first salt water project, and it seemed to be going well so far.
I have added two ocellaris clownfish as the only fish exactly two weeks ago. While one seemed slightly off in the beginning already (sometimes stress swimming, mostly swimming in one spot, black dots, and slight fin cuts), I read here and felt that this might go off after acclimatization. But now, this fish seems to be getting a bit of a sunken belly (fetches mysis/artemia/flakes but seems to spit out most) and is swimming with some ticks almost exclusively in one spot, which is flow shaded by a frag, as seen on the attached video. The other one seems mostly fine, though is also less mobile than other clowns I have seen. The more healthy one was itching itself 2-3 times today on the sand. Nothing I would be worrying about if everything else would be normal. Corals, snails, crabs and shrimps are all doing fine.
I do weekly 10-15% water changes (last one yesterday). I have measured ammonium and KH almost daily and ammonium always comes to 0 and KH between 7 and 7.5. Salinity I have measured yesterday at 1023. Other values I have measured less frequently. From roughly a week ago, it is Nitrate 5, Nitrite 0, Phosphate 0.1, PH 8.2.
Any thoughts would be welcome.
Thanks,
Timo
I run a nano cube reef tank with mostly LPS since Feb 2021. After decades of fresh water, this is my first salt water project, and it seemed to be going well so far.
I have added two ocellaris clownfish as the only fish exactly two weeks ago. While one seemed slightly off in the beginning already (sometimes stress swimming, mostly swimming in one spot, black dots, and slight fin cuts), I read here and felt that this might go off after acclimatization. But now, this fish seems to be getting a bit of a sunken belly (fetches mysis/artemia/flakes but seems to spit out most) and is swimming with some ticks almost exclusively in one spot, which is flow shaded by a frag, as seen on the attached video. The other one seems mostly fine, though is also less mobile than other clowns I have seen. The more healthy one was itching itself 2-3 times today on the sand. Nothing I would be worrying about if everything else would be normal. Corals, snails, crabs and shrimps are all doing fine.
I do weekly 10-15% water changes (last one yesterday). I have measured ammonium and KH almost daily and ammonium always comes to 0 and KH between 7 and 7.5. Salinity I have measured yesterday at 1023. Other values I have measured less frequently. From roughly a week ago, it is Nitrate 5, Nitrite 0, Phosphate 0.1, PH 8.2.
Any thoughts would be welcome.
Thanks,
Timo
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