coral beauty is looking bad

[tim000]

I just bought a coral beauty 2 days ago, it has been doing fine but now tonight it lost its color and i could reach in the tank and touch him. does anbody know whats wrong? the is a damsel in there but i couldnt imagine he his to blame? any suggestions???? please help!

 

[Rich-n-poor]

Tim

correct me if im wrong but didnt you recently lose some clowns to marine vevlet/black ick ?

did you ever get a protien skimmer ?

Angels are harder to keep than clowns which are still technically damsels I would not try them until I had healthy clowns for a while.

I think you should slow down a little if the coral beauty dies I would take him out immediately and leave the tank sit for about a month before adding anything

then I would start with easy to keep fish such as damsels green chromis then move up to clowns then maybe a royal gramma then onto dwarf angels. I have kept salt water for 5 years and many fish I wouldnt even think of trying because of tank size and/or complexity of care

give me some water parameters to answer this question please
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[tim000]

No i have never had a clown die, I have only had a damsel and he is doing fine. the coral beauty is looking better this morning so i dont know what the problem was.

 

[Goldmoon]

I know some fishes change colors during the night.. (yellow tangs become whitish, 3 stripes damsels become all grey).. I never noticed any changes in a coral beauty yet (mine sleeps behind rocks) but could this be it?? If the lights were out, maybe it was sleeping??

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[tim000]

Yeah Goldmoon thats what im thinking, I called my LFS and thats what they said that its colors fade during the night. she has been swiming around all morning and lokking healthy.

 

[31-2c]

Without knowing any more about your tank, I would assume it is a reaction to poor water quality.

 

[Rich-n-poor]

glad to hear it

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[NoriMuncher]

I've had coral beauty's for five years. Never seen a color change except a very slow aging.