Jay Hemdal
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Just got back from a weekend camping trip and the tank is UUUUUGLY. Autofeeder dispensing pellets every 12 hours.
So many different algae variations and whatever else brown, green, and red. Sand is relatively clean, I believe thanks to the marginella snails and tiger conch stirring stuff up. All other snails (lightning dove, dwarf trochus, dwarf cerith, and ninja star astaea) and the small scarlet reef hermit crab in there better step up their game on the rockwork.
Following Firefly's unfortunate adventure, I noticed a white raised spot on the black cardinalfish's right eye. It kinda looks like a pimple and that eye seems to have gotten a bit cloudy... Came back today and she's not behaving like she used to: "hiccuping" at the bottom of the tank and not interested in any frozen food or reacting to any stimuli. She floated around back to the fire shrimp and then floated back out front. No other white spots on the fish. What could this be?
Nitrates: 0.8ppm
Phosphates: 0.04ppm
Salinity: 1.025
I no longer want to put anymore fish in this tank At least the invertebrates and algae are thriving.
Can you post a video of the cardinalfish? Not eating is really serious. It could be flukes.....
Edit - I see you already started a thread on this, I'll look at that.
Jay