porksoda
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Well everytime i get a new clown fish it dies with in 2-3 days i dont understand. All my other fish live just fine! Its just dumb lol. Well is there something up with clowns that make them die easy?
Do all clown fish hate me?
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logiktest
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Pablo, Are your clowns wild cought, or captive bred?
porksoda
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logiktest
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You included your name in your last post about the skimmer
porksoda
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You included your name in your last post about the skimmer
And you didnt reply lol
Is them being tank bred causing them to die all the time?
logiktest
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Sorry I dont have any expertise with that skimmer... didnt feel like responding to your skimmer post just to let you know it! hehe. As for the fish, captive bred fish generaly have a better survival rate than wild caught. Also are these clowns dieing while in quarantine?
porksoda
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no after quarantine
jake65
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What other fish do you have, maybe the clowns are being picked on. Just a thought
porksoda
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Well the other fish i have are 1 yellow tang, 1 hippo tang and 1 royal gramma
the royal grammas can be narky i know mine is
are u adding one clown fish or 2?? my mate added 1 orange occ clown and didnt do well needed 2 get 2 i reackon when they come out of a tank with 50 other clown fish and then being by your self might be stressfull
what was its behavouir like in qt was it eating? swimming ok? was it spending alot of time at the top of the tank??
are u adding one clown fish or 2?? my mate added 1 orange occ clown and didnt do well needed 2 get 2 i reackon when they come out of a tank with 50 other clown fish and then being by your self might be stressfull
what was its behavouir like in qt was it eating? swimming ok? was it spending alot of time at the top of the tank??
porksoda
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Well i just got one and it just stayed in the corner of my tank then just died.
dmo
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Have you tested your tank parameters? Something may be way out of line killing the new fish, but your other fish have managed to adapt to it over a long period.
moortim
Mountain Goat
How long are you quarantining your fish for? What other fish do you have? How long has the tank been setup? Give us some more info and we can start thinking through this.
Tim
Tim
porksoda
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How long are you quarantining your fish for? What other fish do you have? How long has the tank been setup? Give us some more info and we can start thinking through this.
Tim
i quarantined it for 30 mins and my tank has been up for 2 years now. All my water tests are good. I think i just keep buying sick clowns lol. I dunno. I am just gonna stop buying them.
moortim
Mountain Goat
I think we are not quite on the same page, when we say quarantine, it is usually more like 30 days in another aquarium. That way weaknesses in fish will have a chance to show up and sicknesses can be treated before introducing into the main tank. You don't have to stop buying them, doing research and taking care of them a little differently than you are now will give you great results.
Tim
Krish
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Seems really odd Clowns are pretty hardy and I find it hard to see them die so easily... Are you buying the clowns from the exact same place all the time??
Clowns are pretty hardy and I find it hard to see them die so easily... Are you buying the clowns from the exact same place all the time??
porksoda
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yeah its the same place i think they just have sic fish. I guess.
porksoda
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ok i was thinking of something else. I do not quarantine them. I guess i need to start doing that. Thanks for the info.
