Ali's 90g Cube Build

[alimac122]

Sad day---

One of my Mocha Vincis is starting to have a head way bigger than his body. And i can start to see his spine thru the white part of the body. I have been monitoring them over the last week to observe eating behavior. It seemed as if they both were eating just fine. But on further observation today, the frail one keeps eating the pellets then spitting them back out. Never actually ingesting. I also threw in some garlic coated mysis... and same thing unless the mysis is tiny bits of skeleton/ legs (which have no nutritional value to a starving clown).

I REALLY thought that I was going to avoid casualties this time around... I'm sad. there's no physical signs of infection. I dont know what could be wrong. The rest of the tank is very healthy and day by day the Lemonpeel gets more brave. Soon she will be a porker like the Valentini.

 

[fishguy242]

does he have stringy poop? if so start a post in fish disease

 

[alimac122]

does he have stringy poop? if so start a post in fish disease

Ive only seen snail poo and valentini poo (which was one long fat string)

 

[fishguy242]

hi sorry to hear best bet post in disease forum "why does my fish have stringy poop" see what you can do now before too late :(

 

[alimac122]

hi sorry to hear best bet post in disease forum "why does my fish have stringy poop" see what you can do now before too late :(

Its not white. its normal poo color. Every thread says white stringy poo is parasites.

 

[fishguy242]

correct but i believe all stringy is a problem best safe than sorry ;)

 

[fishguy242]

tag me when you do so i can follow along

 

[alimac122]

tag me when you do so i can follow along

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/possible-parasite.725356/

 

[alimac122]

emotional baking and drinking has begun

 

[Bo.]

How's the clown? Absolutely not posting my banana bread in my thread lol

 

[alimac122]

How's the clown? Absolutely not posting my banana bread in my thread lol

they were behaving for photos. But now the skinny one is in the back corner and the less skinny one is swimming fine around the rocks.

 

[alimac122]

got frozen brine today!
also tried soaking the pellets before they went into the tank.

did one extra large feed of pellets and brine and the mochas seemed to go for it!!

gonna garlic soak the brine for tomorrow. Was just super eager to see if it worked.

 

[alimac122]

Bad news bears.
We got a vertical swimmer. Looking more emaciated. Not trying to go after any food, even garlic coated

 

[DiefsReef]

Bad news bears.
We got a vertical swimmer. Looking more emaciated. Not trying to go after any food, even garlic coated

Makes me sad :( so sorry for you! He may still make it.

 

[alimac122]

Makes me sad :( so sorry for you! He may still make it.

Thanks, I just moved them both to the sump so i could monitor their feeding better. Contacted my LFS and hoping they respond soon. Im wondering if they received injury from being caught when they gave them to me.

 

[samnaz]

Thanks, I just moved them both to the sump so i could monitor their feeding better. Contacted my LFS and hoping they respond soon. Im wondering if they received injury from being caught when they gave them to me.

Video isn’t working for me, is it one of the clowns?

 

[alimac122]

Video isn’t working for me, is it one of the clowns?

yes. The clown is doing awful. Not eating, extremely emaciated, I don’t have much hope for this fish. It’s only been 8 days. The videos don’t work on my cell but do on my laptop for some reason.

 

[alimac122]

Update on the clown:

He passed around 7pm today. :/
I did a one minute FW dip around 5pm, and he was breathing pretty labored all day.
I did a quick look over once I removed him from the tank- no visible signs of infection or parasites. Nothing is attached to his gills.
Just gone.... :(

 

[NY_Caveman]

Update on the clown:

He passed around 7pm today. :/
I did a one minute FW dip around 5pm, and he was breathing pretty labored all day.
I did a quick look over once I removed him from the tank- no visible signs of infection or parasites. Nothing is attached to his gills.
Just gone.... :(

That is a real bummer. I hate fish mysteries.

 

[DiefsReef]

Update on the clown:

He passed around 7pm today. :/
I did a one minute FW dip around 5pm, and he was breathing pretty labored all day.
I did a quick look over once I removed him from the tank- no visible signs of infection or parasites. Nothing is attached to his gills.
Just gone.... :(

I'm so sorry