sick flam angel

[jl1199]

My flam angle is looking sick and all of my water perameters are fine. what is the best way to determine how to fix him.

[Bill S]

If you want some help, you'll need to give plenty of details. Not being rude, but "fine" isn't very descriptive, nor is "sick". What else is in the tank, how big is it, what is making you think it is sick?

[jl1199]

sory about that i am new to all of this still my tank is 3 mounths old. I have a 75 gallon corner tank that has about 100lbs of live rock. the water perameters: ph 8.2, nitrite is 0 nitrate is 0 NH4 is 0. In the tank i have 14 snails 1 brittle star 1 sand siffting star fish 1 clown fish 1 sea urchin 1 hermit crab. The angle fish is not swimming around like and is hideing in the rocks and laying down.

[discuspro]

what water test kits are you using? In my experience flame angels always get sick when I've bought them. Usually an extreme case of ick. I believe I saw the ick flare up the most at night. It will look like white spots all over it's body.

If your water parameters are good that still doesn't mean the fish won't get sick. The best prevention and treatment would be to quarantine. Even thought it might be a pain it is a good way to treat sicknesses that can flare up on any fish after being stessed from the move from the aquarium store to home.

Find a recently published good marine fish care book and read the recommendations closely and what drugs or conditions they may say to rid a fish of certain pathogens or diseases.

[Bill S]

How long have you had the angel? If the fish is actually down, there's not a lot of hope for it. As indicated above, are there any spots on it?

[alton]

Angel fish like a well established tank (more than 6 months old) In sayin that I call it the 30 day rule, if it last longer than that it will generally will live for ever. Less than 30 days it might of been something to do with the fish, shipping, handling, stress during shipping, and yes of course Cyanide poisoning. Sometimes things just happen and we have no control over them.

[Bill S]

Yup, the first few weeks are critical. The unfortunate thing about our hobby, that we all try and ignore, is that there is a big loss between the reef and 30 days in your tank. If you wonder why LFSs offer "25% off" the day the fish come in, it's just that you are now taking on a large part of that risk, for the discount...

[jl1199]

thanks for all the advice but it died today

[GMFett]

good news is you can get another one...

[5.0Stang]

I got a Coral beauty im bout to post up for sale