Mangrove / Macro / Softie lagoon - 20 long
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Last night was hatch night, got substantially more (both sighted in tank and collected). I am guessing i caught 20-30 fry? Looking in I can count 9 at about any given time this morning but they keep disappearing into tint as they hunt so an actual count is hard. As long as I see more than last time I'm happy with an improvement.
Dark times in the macroalgae tank. Out of nowhere some unknown disease or irritant seems to have snuck in, and/or triggered something latent. Last thing I added to tank was in early july and that was all soft stuff, no frag plugs. And tank has been incredibly healthy since then so I have zero ideas what happened. But I was out of town for 2 nights week before last, wife was here the whole time feeding fish, got back and things seemed OK. But over the weekend (7 days ago) tons of little white spots showed up on only the female clown. Skin scrape, microscopy, and some humblefish posts later and still no real diagnosis for what's going on. Currently treating the tank for flukes since that's the best remaining shot but I'm at a loss for what's going on. Luckily they are all still eating but watching them get covered in mucus dots and be irritated by something unknown is the worst.
Also not great because while I was out my wife was feeding the baby clownfish, but thats a lot to ask and they didn't make it through the trip. So a very bad week all around.
But more eggs hatched last night and rotifer production is off the charts, so fingers crossed i can get something from this batch through. Not very optimistic because of the sudden turn this tank has taken, but hoping this batch can be a source of optimism.
Also not great because while I was out my wife was feeding the baby clownfish, but thats a lot to ask and they didn't make it through the trip. So a very bad week all around.
But more eggs hatched last night and rotifer production is off the charts, so fingers crossed i can get something from this batch through. Not very optimistic because of the sudden turn this tank has taken, but hoping this batch can be a source of optimism.
Lots of mucus cells and some fish cells. nothing moving that I could see that wasn't just flow on the slides (i.e. nothing moving against the current). I got a ton of photos if you're curious, posted a bunch on humblefish for id, nobody saw anything.
Today the male took a turn for the worse. Female might actually be doing better? ate with more activity this morning. but male got the spots out of nowhere (no spots visible yesterday, maybe they were just starting but not visible) and was hiding under rock next to anemone breathing hard. Found him 30 min later at the top of the tank breathing hard so I have in in a ruby rally pro bath rn, hoping that gives him some relief.
i hate disease man. its the worst. especially unknown disease.
Today the male took a turn for the worse. Female might actually be doing better? ate with more activity this morning. but male got the spots out of nowhere (no spots visible yesterday, maybe they were just starting but not visible) and was hiding under rock next to anemone breathing hard. Found him 30 min later at the top of the tank breathing hard so I have in in a ruby rally pro bath rn, hoping that gives him some relief.
i hate disease man. its the worst. especially unknown disease.
Maybe? I dosed prazipro to the tank on wednesday since the dragonet was flashing a little bit and i started seeing some twitching/yawning. since then i've had an airstone in the tank running 24/7. I'm running carbon now too just in case anemone was ticked off at something and stinging harder or if there is some weird organic in the water fueling a weird irritation.
