Hey folks,
Last night wasn't a good night. Got home to find that Dempsey (male clown) had what looked to be ich. Makepeace (female) was looking ok, just very agitated. Dempsey wasn't looking too bad, just a couple of spots on his head, and a couple of his belly. Did about a 15% water change and increased the temperature in the tank. Came down this morning, temp is up at about 82 now (from 76-77), Dempsey looks far better, spots have gone already and although he was quite quiet, at least he wasn't swimming through the sand etc, which I assumed last night was him trying to "scratch". Also added a dose of Aquasafe, which although not exactly a medication, is supposed to help relieve stress, help recover from illness etc etc. This may or may not be the best course of action, but it was the only stuff I had in the house (note to self - keep ich medicine in the cupboard!)
Could ich have gone so rapidly? I wasn't expecting him to look any better this morning - in fact I was expecting the worst. Fingers crossed he'll be back to normal when I get home tonight.
Was fearing the worst for our rather expensive and rather lovable tankmates last night. At least the anemone is looking far better now - she had a great meal of chopped cockles last night - gobbled it up!
On a side-note - although the look of the cabinet that we have is great - matches the TV stand etc, it just ain't big enough! So advice to any newbies reading this - when choosing your cabinet - get the largest usable space possible. Ours only has a cupboard in themiddle and open space on either side (cupboard makes up only about 50% of the cabinet size) and this is now full with filter, sockets and wavemaker. So going to have to do a redesign on what is stored where, at the moment, the extension lead sockets are just next to the filter - not ideal if the filter leaks!!!
Anyway, time to do some work I suppose...
Ade
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