SaltyQueen
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Hello, all- haven't been around here much because I'm finishing up my master's program at school, but I'm having a major emergency this weekend...
29 gallon reef tank, up & running for a year now, with 2 ocellaris clowns, 2 skunk cleaner shrimp, royal gramma, midas blenny, and a few assorted corals. First of all, my water params are all ok.
Friday, when I got home from work, my husband informed me that my royal gramma was swimming around funny (upside down), so i immediately suspected swim bladder disease. When i went to check it out, though, he was already dead. Yesterday I did a 30% water change. Today, one of my clowns started doing the same thing, but he was dead within 5 minutes. I didn't know that swim bladder disease could kill fish so quickly, so now I'm not so sure that's what it is. Today, the other clown is swimming normally, but an hour ago, one of his eyes had a cloudy spot on it (not popeye, just a small couldy spot). Now, he is still swimming normally, but her has another cloudy spot on his other eye. The midas blenny, shrimp, and corals are all fine (which tells me it's not a water quality issue, because if that was the case, I would think the corals would be the first to go.
Do I have some sort of bacterial or viral infestation in my tank??? Can I treat it with anything without killing the corals? I would have QT'd the other fish, but they all died so quickly, i didn't get a chance. So I'm worried that even if I QT the remaining clown, that the bacteria/virus has already infested the tank & will spread to my other critters. I have no idea what to do. HELP!
29 gallon reef tank, up & running for a year now, with 2 ocellaris clowns, 2 skunk cleaner shrimp, royal gramma, midas blenny, and a few assorted corals. First of all, my water params are all ok.
Friday, when I got home from work, my husband informed me that my royal gramma was swimming around funny (upside down), so i immediately suspected swim bladder disease. When i went to check it out, though, he was already dead. Yesterday I did a 30% water change. Today, one of my clowns started doing the same thing, but he was dead within 5 minutes. I didn't know that swim bladder disease could kill fish so quickly, so now I'm not so sure that's what it is. Today, the other clown is swimming normally, but an hour ago, one of his eyes had a cloudy spot on it (not popeye, just a small couldy spot). Now, he is still swimming normally, but her has another cloudy spot on his other eye. The midas blenny, shrimp, and corals are all fine (which tells me it's not a water quality issue, because if that was the case, I would think the corals would be the first to go.
Do I have some sort of bacterial or viral infestation in my tank??? Can I treat it with anything without killing the corals? I would have QT'd the other fish, but they all died so quickly, i didn't get a chance. So I'm worried that even if I QT the remaining clown, that the bacteria/virus has already infested the tank & will spread to my other critters. I have no idea what to do. HELP!
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