Playin with the clowns
Me and some clown fish at Toilet Bowl. Okinawa, Japan Taken by the amazing and talented corc08!!! ... diving dive scuba clown fish anemone okinawa ...
Salt Water Scene: You gotta love it
Amy Randolph adores the 210-gallon salt water reef tank prominently placed in her dining room. "I went to the local fish store," says Randolph, "and I saw the fish and the corals and everythings so colorful, so beautiful, and I just fell in love. I dove right in." That was almost three years ago. She started with a 75-gallon tank, but when her fish grew larger, so did her aquarium. The 210-gallon unit she now has will accommodate fully grown fish, allowing them to move through the water much more easily.
John Stout of Tropical Paradise and Mark Millington and Scott Shuster of Aquarium Solutions each got into the fish and aquarium business because of their love for the hobby. Millington and Shuster had large salt water tanks for years before they got jobs working at a local fish store. "My dentist, Dr. Albert Bozart, convinced us to try it as a business," says
Recuperating In The Polyps « Fox's Den
What a horrid week. Last week I noticed some greyish patches on Tina’s (pictured left) tail. She was swimming around, eating well and diving in and out of her favourite clump of Orange Button Polyps so I didn’t think too much of it. Infact in the beginning I couldn’t actually tell properly if they were greyish patches or just the light reflecting oddly. When the lights in the tank were turned off and the natural daying shone through the water you could clearly make out some dark patches through the white band on her tail.
Napoleon (the smaller baby Clown) was fine. Happy as larry he followed Tina around mimicking her every move. Napoleon, being a tank bred Percula didn’t have a clue how to act like a Clownfish until I got Tina who turned out to be a wild caught fish. I didn’t realise this at the time I chose her and after the guy at the fish shop had just spent 15-20 minutes trying to net her out of the tank I didn’t have the heart for him or her to not take her. Better she live happy in my tank than in a store or worse, in some kids chintzy plastic aquarium with a name like ‘Nemo’.
On Saturday I noticed Napoleon’s tail had a little split in it. This definitely confirmed there was something up. Usually bacterial/fungal infections that cause fins to split are related to poor water quality but I change 10% of my water weekly without fail and test the water parameters for Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, PH, Phosphate, metals and salinity at least weekly too so I knew I didn’t have poor water. Despite this I carried out an impromptu water change just incase I was missing something. On Monday nothing had changed for the worse so I assumed the water change had helped and planned to do another the following day.
Then it all happened very quickly – On Tuesday a chunk of Napoleons tail was missing although he was otherwise healthy and lively and still eating like a pig. I took some advice from a forum throughout the day and tried researching on the net as much as I could. Word from the forum was that it could be Brooklynella, aka ‘Clownfish’ disease which can rapidly kill the fish in hours. I didn’t altogether agree with this because most of the diagnosis didn’t match what my two fish were displaying but pictures and descriptions of other bacterial infections did. Not to mention Tina had been going around with these patches for a week with no problems. On Wednesday morning they both still looked lively, just a few grey patches around their tails and backs but Napoleon was missing more of his tail. Without a quarantine tank to move the fish to I took advice from the forum and on Wednesday afternoon I returned home from work with Melafix, an all natural tea tree based meds good for infections. However Napoleon was not looking good. During the day he had taken a massive downturn and was now at the surface getting pushed around by the current of the filter inlet. Although he could still swim he appeared to weaken quickly and let the water carry him briefly.
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Salt Water Scene: You gotta love it
Its not a fish bowl where you put food in once a day and walk away." Owners must check chemical levels, add water to compensate for evaporation,
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