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chanley2007

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hello everyone im new here and after some answers if anyone's got any idea's!
i got myself a royal clown about a month ago now and everything seemed fine! he was about 16inch's long, he hid all day and ate like a pig at night, it all happened yesterday when i noticed him out in the day which is rare, he couldn't control where he was swimming, just kept floating about. he only lived for about an hour after i first noticed. i used to see him rub his face up agaist a few of the decorations i have in the tank but that was the only weird thing really. water conditions are all fine! can anyone help?
 
Sounds like a swim bladder infection...don't blame yourself you don't have to have done anything wrong. you just need to be alive to die..go on, get another clown.
 
95socalstang;718651;718651 said:
i had one do the same thing...Just went crazy out of nowhere. What water conditioner do you use when doing water changes?

Eric
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my tank holds 150gal, i do about a 25% water change every week using RO water. the shop i got it from has another two still, £40 quid each. tempted to get another one but must investigate the death of this one first!
 
The only reason why I ask is because there have been a few of us that use PRIME as a water conditioner that have had this happen with an RCK.

Eric
 
95socalstang;718930; said:
The only reason why I ask is because there have been a few of us that use PRIME as a water conditioner that have had this happen with an RCK.

Eric
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Hmmm, I use Prime occasionally. Who else has had that happen, cuz if I see that pattern I'll drop Prime like mugger.
I primarily use Stresscoat for W/Cs.

Chuck
 
dodgefreak8;673008; said:
Man I wish I could help more. I atributed my problems to prime because they always did this when I was trying to fight an ammonia spike. They were fine until I used the prime and then they did the same thing you are describing. I know that it sounds like my problem was the ammonia but I later found out that I was fighting ammonium which is harmless to fish. I was overdosing the prime to convert the ammonia and I really think thats what did it. I stopped using it and my currant RCK is 18" long. Just my observations.
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This was from my thread when my first RCK was acting weird. Swimming eratically, upside down, running into objects, and eventually death. I don't know if there is a serious link but in hindsight I definetly saw a change in my RCK after water changes with Prime...I now use Amquel Plus just for my own piece of mind. Knives may just be a little touchy when it comes to a certain chemical in Prime.

Eric
 
95socalstang;719137;719137 said:
This was from my thread when my first RCK was acting weird. Swimming eratically, upside down, running into objects, and eventually death. I don't know if there is a serious link but in hindsight I definetly saw a change in my RCK after water changes with Prime...I now use Amquel Plus just for my own piece of mind. Knives may just be a little touchy when it comes to a certain chemical in Prime.

Eric
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Not likely. My royal have been with me for 10 months, I have used prime in his tanks for all ten, not a single problem. Same is so with my gold.
 
chanley2007;718691;718691 said:
my tank holds 150gal, i do about a 25% water change every week using RO water. the shop i got it from has another two still, £40 quid each. tempted to get another one but must investigate the death of this one first!
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I really hope you are adding trace to that RO. There are many elements that are needed in water that RO/DI will remove. This can be very hard on fish long term.
 
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