HELP!blue hippo tang sick?
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Water change is never a bad idea, as long as the water is the same temp & parameters.
Some anemonies will "cough" after a feeding, don't know if condies do but its possible. This might be you nitrates.
For a reef tank, canister/wet-dry/power filters are generally frownd upon. Canisters get clogged really fast in an established reef, and wet-dry filters are nitrate factories. Generally, the best is live rock. If you have a sump, some chaetomorpha macroalgae will assist the live rock in nitrate removal. If the water seems to cloudy, you can run a course filter sock, but a protein skimmer and carbon should keep the water clear. (And, efficient mechanical filtration cleans out "good" critters.)
Some anemonies will "cough" after a feeding, don't know if condies do but its possible. This might be you nitrates.
For a reef tank, canister/wet-dry/power filters are generally frownd upon. Canisters get clogged really fast in an established reef, and wet-dry filters are nitrate factories. Generally, the best is live rock. If you have a sump, some chaetomorpha macroalgae will assist the live rock in nitrate removal. If the water seems to cloudy, you can run a course filter sock, but a protein skimmer and carbon should keep the water clear. (And, efficient mechanical filtration cleans out "good" critters.)
the water is very clear and i do have a skimmer on it i also have 150 lbs of live rock in there i guess i will wait till the afternoon tomorro for the water change because i have to get up early and its 10 at night here and i have to get up very early also my light timers just turned off the light so i really cant see thanks for the feedback everyone
thank....well morning update still the same it actually looks like the eye may have gone down a bit when i get home from work ill do a wc and see how everytings going
ok well came home today did a water change wich was a mess lol i usually clean my fluval every three months well today was my third and idk if anyone uses a fluva but when u disconnect it you can make the tubes pump out water when i disconnected the canister i must have hit the lever and i went into the other room to clean out the filter came back and there was a flood in the bottom of the stand lol talk about bad luck anyways i think i may have came to a conclusion of what happend...about two weeks ago i posted a thread about my skunk shrimp annoying the **** out of my condy(dunno if anyone read it) well i cant find my skunk shrimp(who usually cleans the diseases off of my blue hippo) so what i think happend was the condy FINALLY ate the skunk shrimp after getting aggravated(after seeing what the shrimp was doing to him i was kinda rooting for the condy to eat him lol) coughed up his remains caused my nitrates to rise causing the hippo tang to get a disease without having the skunk shrimp eat it off him so it got worse...i think thats what happend anyways thanks for the feedback everyone
Dont worry about the tang if its eating and what not.... theyre ich magnets to begin with..... I just turn the light off for a couple days when I see ich. That seems to work well. I also feed antiparasitic food and that helps with large blooms.
