Hi new to keeping saltwater fish was going so well until it wasn’t!
All parameters are great but I noticed my blue tang had small white spots, we lost 10 fish all went through the same, white spots or fuzz, loss of colour, scales flaking, hiding and stopped eating just before they died. Within a week we had 5 left from Google it looks like I had velvet in the tank. The last 5 looked good eating well no symptoms at all then a few days later our wrasse died which I was surprised as he looked so healthy.
We were left with 3 chromis and 1 goby, now the goby had only a few spots but was never away from the cleaner shrimp and then 1 chromis started with tissue braking away from his head and died pretty soon after. I have one chromis that’s about to die same as other one tissue breaking down and one that looks very healthy so I’ve taken the sick one out and when I put it in a bowl I found a parasite of some sort. So question is does it sound like velvet or is this parasite that I’ve found the culprit?
All parameters are great but I noticed my blue tang had small white spots, we lost 10 fish all went through the same, white spots or fuzz, loss of colour, scales flaking, hiding and stopped eating just before they died. Within a week we had 5 left from Google it looks like I had velvet in the tank. The last 5 looked good eating well no symptoms at all then a few days later our wrasse died which I was surprised as he looked so healthy.
We were left with 3 chromis and 1 goby, now the goby had only a few spots but was never away from the cleaner shrimp and then 1 chromis started with tissue braking away from his head and died pretty soon after. I have one chromis that’s about to die same as other one tissue breaking down and one that looks very healthy so I’ve taken the sick one out and when I put it in a bowl I found a parasite of some sort. So question is does it sound like velvet or is this parasite that I’ve found the culprit?