iflyprops
01/09/2006, 09:32 AM
Here's the story...
I am on my first saltwater tank, a 29g. Everything that has gone into the tank has come from one LFS, liverock, inverts, and two true percula clownfish, all spaced over about a month and a half. After I brought the Percs home about a week and a half ago I noticed one had white stringy feces and occasionally twitched. I thought it may have just been stress as he had just been introduced (properly) to the tank, with no other fish. Yesterday they took a turn for the worst after doing great for about a week. The larger of the two became stuck to the intake of the powerhead, but luckily I saw it happen and was able to free him. And the other was still having the stringy feces and started twiching again. So promptly set up a quarantine tank and at the advice of my LFS treated them with CLOUT... This morning one of the clowns in intermittently lying on the bottom of the QT tank, struggling to swim while the other has an length of white stringy feces that is ever increasing in length, and swimming sideways. Also both fish are occasionally skimming.
Do you think the fish came from the fish store with these illnesses? Did I do anything wrong from what you can tell, other than not treating them when I first brought them home?
My question is the following: What would you ask from your LFS? Obviously I plan on demanding my money back (do you think this is right?) for fish that cost $30 each. I am honestly more upset about losing my fish than the money.
Thank You,
Adam
I am on my first saltwater tank, a 29g. Everything that has gone into the tank has come from one LFS, liverock, inverts, and two true percula clownfish, all spaced over about a month and a half. After I brought the Percs home about a week and a half ago I noticed one had white stringy feces and occasionally twitched. I thought it may have just been stress as he had just been introduced (properly) to the tank, with no other fish. Yesterday they took a turn for the worst after doing great for about a week. The larger of the two became stuck to the intake of the powerhead, but luckily I saw it happen and was able to free him. And the other was still having the stringy feces and started twiching again. So promptly set up a quarantine tank and at the advice of my LFS treated them with CLOUT... This morning one of the clowns in intermittently lying on the bottom of the QT tank, struggling to swim while the other has an length of white stringy feces that is ever increasing in length, and swimming sideways. Also both fish are occasionally skimming.
Do you think the fish came from the fish store with these illnesses? Did I do anything wrong from what you can tell, other than not treating them when I first brought them home?
My question is the following: What would you ask from your LFS? Obviously I plan on demanding my money back (do you think this is right?) for fish that cost $30 each. I am honestly more upset about losing my fish than the money.
Thank You,
Adam