Puffer Chick's 46 Gallon Bowfront Reef

it takes time for them to open.. mine has been with me 5 months but its been getting smaller with time, not that fast but yeah maybe 5-8 less polyps out of the 50+ it had in 5 months. i guess its dying. i kinda knew that would happen but for the most part its healthy.. still grows pretty big when its fully open.

 

Yeait was open really big when I first got it I did some reading and switched the mp to lagoon mode and moved it out of the cave for more light and this morning it wad closed

 

Weird...could leave it and see what happens then maybe moveit back...what conditions was in when you got it (I'm guessing it was out & happy) can reproduce those conditions.

 

yea im going to leave it now, in the holding tank at the lfs it was really dark and didnt have like any lights, so maybe its just a bit shocked from the lighting change, it looked really healthy though it was all bright and moving all pretty in the flow

i just got done cleaning the tank glass so its all closed from me moving the light it should open again soon just seems like it takes forever for it to open up

 

blossom my pink margins is not looking good looks like she's on her last legs, she had ick really bad for a week when i first got her, then it went away for a whole 24hrs came back really bad again, and now she is floating in a back corner facing downwards she's displaying fins, not really moving, fish swim by her and she doesnt even move, this might be her last night i hope she eats tonight

 

well she ate tonight but she's still breathing hard, eats weird and swims dowards still not doing that good

 

blossom ended up passsing away last night. lossing two fish in one week is too much. i think i need to let my tank sit for a month before i add anything else and in the mean time, try to catch the chromis

RIP blossom

 

Sorry for your loss...poor blossom.

 

thanks it just really sucks loosing two fish that i really liked in the same week and really close to each other

last night i tested my water ammonia and nitrite were 0 nitrate 10 ph 8.2 salanity 1.025

so nothing is wrong with my water, i think flash was just a freak accident and he was just doing what wrasses do, jump. And blossom's was just a bad case of ick.

now im just going to let my tank sit, way to many fish deaths

 

Letting the tank sit is a good idea. No sense in putting other fish at risk if something isn't right..even if you have no idea what it is. Everyone has a few fish deaths..i went through that rut last year. Before you know it though you will have had the same fish for a long time with no problems.