u/Spooby57

Ok reefers I need some help. I’m a newbie, this is my first tank and it’s about 10 months old. This gramma is about 8 months old. We had a fairy wrasse that was a bit of a good bully, so we would really go weeks without seeing the gramma at all. We got rid of the wrasse, and she started coming out, but this was the result. She’s been swimming like this, or sometimes she just lays on the sand. Salinity and calcium were high this morning.
Parameters before a 15-20 gallon water change.
Salinity 1.0275-1.028
Ph 8.4
Magnesium 1265 ppm
Phosphate .18 ppm
Ammonia .06 ppm
Nitrate 16.7 ppm
Alkalinity 9.0 dKH
Calcium is a blinking 600 ppm on the Hanna tester. I’ve tested it twice to make sure.
Several hours after water change:
Salinity 1.0265-1.027
Alkalinity 9.2 dKH
Calcium 525 ppm
Calcium finally registered something.
I didn’t do full testing, just what I felt was important. I haven’t seen it eat at all in the last week, and shies away when I try and put thawed shrimp in front of it. I’ve set up a hospital tank, but I don’t want to stress it with moving if I can help it. Any thoughts?

The last week or so, my royal gramma (aka Skittles) has been acting strange. We had a wrasse that was somewhat of a bully, so I gave it to my local fish store. Ever since then Skittles has been popping back out. We would go weeks without seeing it. I noticed the colors are muted, and she’ll hang out in one spot for what seems like forever for a fish, then start swimming again. She stay still long enough that I worry she’s dead. Any thoughts? I was worried she wasn’t eating due to the wrasse.

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