What a nightmare the last couple of days have been after discovering our clownfish covered in what appears to be ich. This is in the new seahorse tank too, so I'm feeling pretty fed-up and angry with myself about the whole thing. Although I added some macro to the tank this week, I had FW dipped it and as the same macro is in other tanks that aren't showing signs of infestation, I can only conclude that the cause is actually pajama cardinals that were added to the tank around 2 months ago. Everyone else in the tank has been with me for years.
At the moment, the seahorses aren't showing any signs although I believe that the first place ich attacks with seahorses is their gills, which would obviously be devastating. So, the seahorses have been moved to a 25 gallon tank whilst treatment begins. The clownfish has been moved to a tank of his own where we are treating him fairly aggressively. He's handling the treatment well so far. I'm not quite sure what I am going to do with the tank at the moment but my options are to leave it fallow for a three month period or treat the whole tank.
I'm used to treating seahorses for common issues associated with them but not with clownfish. The most effective treatment for ich is not suitable for seahorses so that adds to the dilemma!
Here is a picture of him when he was moved to QT. He looks pretty bad, doesn't he!
***And in Other News***
Everyone else is doing great. We're obviously having to be extra careful not to contaminate any of the other tanks so there's additional sterilizing, etc going on right now.
It looks like my little dwarf that I was hoping was pregnant isn't as we haven't had any babies and he's still looking rather rotund!
Here are some pictures that I took this week of various broods......I hope you like them :)
We did have a huge die off of the youngest brood. I added live macro to the fry tank and soon after this we started losing between 7 - 10 babies almost every day. As soon as I removed the macro, the deaths stopped almost instantly. Of course, thinking about it logically, the macro provides a host to pathogenic bacteria to live and thrive. Fingers crossed that we have now seen an end of the deaths!
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| 6 weeks old |
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| 6 weeks old |
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| 8 months old - my favourite. I think I might keep her. |
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| 4 month olds |
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| 8 months old |
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| 4 month olds |
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