Help-sick clown

[Clay Blankenship]

I have had a pair of ocellaris clowns in a 29 gallon for about a week. The
tank was cycled and ammonia and nitrites were 0, nitrates less than 5 ppm.
Yesterday I got rid of the UGF with the large gravel-sized crushed coral
and added some sand. (I still have a Biowheel and I added a CPR bakpak at
the same time, transferring some of the UGF gravel to the CPR media
compartment.) Unfortunately, due to external events I was in a hurry and
got the tank pretty cloudy with the sand. This morning, one of the clowns
is a cloudy white color over the rear half of his body and his swimming is
listless, almost like he can't use his tail very much. Any idea what this
could be and if it was brought on by the cloudy tank?

Tank also has a few pounds of live rock and 1 peppermint shrimp.

Thanks,
Clay

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Monterey, CA

[Dragon Slayer]

more then likely you caused an upset of ammonia when you disturbed the UGF
by removing it. its best to syphon off the crushed coral and only do half
the tank at a time to keep the biological filtration up to the tank load.

kc

"Clay Blankenship" > wrote in message
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> I have had a pair of ocellaris clowns in a 29 gallon for about a week.
The
> tank was cycled and ammonia and nitrites were 0, nitrates less than 5 ppm.
> Yesterday I got rid of the UGF with the large gravel-sized crushed coral
> and added some sand. (I still have a Biowheel and I added a CPR bakpak at
> the same time, transferring some of the UGF gravel to the CPR media
> compartment.) Unfortunately, due to external events I was in a hurry and
> got the tank pretty cloudy with the sand. This morning, one of the clowns
> is a cloudy white color over the rear half of his body and his swimming is
> listless, almost like he can't use his tail very much. Any idea what this
> could be and if it was brought on by the cloudy tank?
>
> Tank also has a few pounds of live rock and 1 peppermint shrimp.
>
> Thanks,
> Clay
>
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> Clay Blankenship Change 'Z' to 's' to reply
> Monterey, CA

[Clay Blankenship]

Dragon Slayer wrote:

> more then likely you caused an upset of ammonia when you disturbed the UGF
> by removing it. its best to syphon off the crushed coral and only do half
> the tank at a time to keep the biological filtration up to the tank load.
>
> kc
>
Hmmm. I will check the ammonia tonight. The guy at the fish store looked
at a picture I took (digital cameras come in handy) and thought he was just
pale due to stress. He did look better today, so hopefully he will go back
to normal.

Clay

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