[cofstl411]

I came home today to a sick fish. He is only half blue/green and half dark brown. I tested my water and everything came out ok except that the ph was at 7.8. I added some baking soda to raise that a little. He is swimming very erratic. Sometimes he swims upside down and he can barely keep himself off of the bottom. I have a foxface in the tank. Is it possible that he got too close or is that not likely. I don't know if I should take him out now or wait to see if he gets better. He looks pretty far gone though. Everybody else seems to be doing fine.

[The R/C Man]

I have never heard of that type of problem before. It is quite possible the Foxface got him. Do you have a quarantine tank you can put him in?

[cofstl411]

No, I don't have a quarantine tank. All I have is a refugium to put him in. I don't think I would be able to chase him down in my 125 gallon tank even with him being in the state he is in anyway.

[The R/C Man]

cofstl411,

How is your fish doing?

[queenangelRIP]

uh i started out with 4 chromos and then there was one and it was the weirdest thing i would come home and it would be floating on the top seamingly dead so unless my mom replaced it every time it died (wich is highly unlikely) i have a mirical fish cause about an hour later every time it would be swiming like nothing hapend (then i got a sick clown fish that got stresed by my brothers constant loude rage against the machine and the chromis got ich and finaly it realy died) has this ever hapend to anyone else please tell me



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[saltjunkie]

when i buy chromis.. i always buy alot more than i will need....

this last time around i bought 7 for my 50 gallon tank... only 4 made it...

my tank is set up real good...stable and have very good success with fish.. but in my opinion... chromis just die.. well all things die, but chromis just quicker than most...

[cofstl411]

I find that suprising since I always thought that chromis were very hardy. My sick chromis was barely staying afloat and would just go into a corner. The next morning he was gone. I mean literally. I could not even find a scale. It was weird that he had that brown stripe right through the middle of his body. I lost one in my overflow for a week a while back and he rebounded fairly well.