hi guys, my yellow clown goby was eating when i got him, he was eating fine fattened up and grew in length for the last 2 weeks. in the last couple days he has started looking really bad and acting strange, breathing heavily, is barely eating now whereas he was a pig a couple days ago. he is staying away from the liverock, he is sitting on the return pump outlet nozzle at the top of the tank, and is deathly afraid of the everything moving in the tank, where he was brave and keen to investigate everything that was happening outside and inside the tank.
he looks like he has little yellow bumps all over him, he is still bright yellow.
I feed him twice a day, with tmc nano marine cuisine which contains: brineshrimp with garlic, mysis, rotifers, copepods, chopped mussel, chopped squid, chopped spinach. during the day he used to munch on the pods that cover the glass, the glass is still covered with them.
I have noticed that the pom pom crab is interested in him, and is quite aggressive towards him, it looks like she tries to sting the goby with the pom poms, every time he is near her.
Water parameters:
25 degrees celsius
pH 8.2
ammonia 0 ppm
nitrite 0 ppm
nitrate 5ppm
salt is 1.024
everything else in the tank is looking good.
Any ideas or advice i can do to get my goby back to a pristine condition?
(mods if this is in the wrong thread please move it into the correct one)
Thank you.
john
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Urgent help needed yellow clown goby
Posted: January 15th, 2012, 1:37am CST by awsum46