Put the fish in about 2 hours ago, the Ph is 8.3, No amonia (yet), No nitrite, and around 15 ppm of Nitrate, SG is around 1.022 and salinity is at 30. He is just lying on the rock seems like is breathing is really fast, for the first two hours he was fine swimming around. What is going on and what can i do?
Coral Beauty Angel lying on the rock breathing heavy!
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ya dude I have been there before and at this point I would have to say he is going to die, but If you know all the guys they might be nice, I know were I go they make you bring in a water sample to return a fish and your peramiters have to be 0,0,0, and 8.3 so, well see what happens, but you should start out with a crab or something. don't go rushing into the nice fish just yet, it takes time. and next time..Lower Nitrates..
nitrates are fine, anything under 50 is fine for fish, ideally 0 for sensitive inverts and corals, but if just fish you should be fine, also a month is a little early for fish, you might be ok, but time will see, also aclimation was not done for a long enough time, 1 hour atleast for fish, and 2 hours for corals atleast. if your gonna spend money on a fish, spend the time to acclimate them properly, less stress for them equals healthier fish, less prone to disease and a much happier fish, yamaha you might wanna read up a little before you start making these recomendations
Wow 6 months? I got a Coral Beauty after 3 weeks. Of course my water parameters were perfect as I monitor them religiously. He thrives in my tank and eats like a horse; mysis, prime reef, flake and pecks at algae all day long. I acclimated him for close to an hour like I do all my fish adding a quarter cup of my tank water to the bag 2 times at 20 min. intervals. This is just my experience.
