Cardinal fish dying

[anthony blake]

Hey all I was wondering what diagnosis my cardinal Fish could possibly have for a disease, it all started when I had my old 40 gallon Reef tank I bought a pair of flame cardinal fish and after a few months, one of them started getting a cloudy eye and white stringy feces, stopped eating and hid a lot until it died . Flashback until now to where this cardinal fish was living eight months in my Reef tank with no signs of disease up until this past week it started getting cloudy eyes white stringy feces stopped eating and hid a lot, it also has thread like white strings on its body. I am dosing prazi pro in my Reef tank as it could be an internal parasite. I am curious to what medication would work the best for the remaining inhabitants once he goes to prevent any future, internal disease, such as this. Also am curious what disease it could be for best treatment. Thank you have a happy thanksgiving

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hey all I was wondering what diagnosis my cardinal Fish could possibly have for a disease, it all started when I had my old 40 gallon Reef tank I bought a pair of flame cardinal fish and after a few months, one of them started getting a cloudy eye and white stringy feces, stopped eating and hid a lot until it died . Flashback until now to where this cardinal fish was living eight months in my Reef tank with no signs of disease up until this past week it started getting cloudy eyes white stringy feces stopped eating and hid a lot, it also has thread like white strings on its body. I am dosing prazi pro in my Reef tank as it could be an internal parasite. I am curious to what medication would work the best for the remaining inhabitants once he goes to prevent any future, internal disease, such as this. Also am curious what disease it could be for best treatment. Thank you have a happy thanksgiving

Can’t open video but any physical damage , cloudy eyes or spiral swimming?

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Hey all I was wondering what diagnosis my cardinal Fish could possibly have for a disease, it all started when I had my old 40 gallon Reef tank I bought a pair of flame cardinal fish and after a few months, one of them started getting a cloudy eye and white stringy feces, stopped eating and hid a lot until it died . Flashback until now to where this cardinal fish was living eight months in my Reef tank with no signs of disease up until this past week it started getting cloudy eyes white stringy feces stopped eating and hid a lot, it also has thread like white strings on its body. I am dosing prazi pro in my Reef tank as it could be an internal parasite. I am curious to what medication would work the best for the remaining inhabitants once he goes to prevent any future, internal disease, such as this. Also am curious what disease it could be for best treatment. Thank you have a happy thanksgiving

Tough to say what the specific issue is, but the fish is swimming weakly and it looks very thin. The clownfish made a pass at it.

Prazi Pro only cures external flukes and internal tapeworms. The tapeworms don't cause stringy feces though.

There isn't really anything you can do for it in the DT. Can you move it to a hospital tank?

 

[anthony blake]

Hey all I was wondering what diagnosis my cardinal Fish could possibly have for a disease, it all started when I had my old 40 gallon Reef tank I bought a pair of flame cardinal fish and after a few months, one of them started getting a cloudy eye and white stringy feces, stopped eating and hid a lot until it died . Flashback until now to where this cardinal fish was living eight months in my Reef tank with no signs of disease up until this past week it started getting cloudy eyes white stringy feces stopped eating and hid a lot, it also has thread like white strings on its body. I am dosing prazi pro in my Reef tank as it could be an internal parasite. I am curious to what medication would work the best for the remaining inhabitants once he goes to prevent any future, internal disease, such as this. Also am curious what disease it could be for best treatment. Thank you have a happy thanksgiving

Can’t open video but any physical damage , cloudy eyes or spiral swimming?

No physical damage other than cloudy eyes thread like strings on the fishes body and it is swimming almost spiraling as if it has no balance

 

[anthony blake]

Hey all I was wondering what diagnosis my cardinal Fish could possibly have for a disease, it all started when I had my old 40 gallon Reef tank I bought a pair of flame cardinal fish and after a few months, one of them started getting a cloudy eye and white stringy feces, stopped eating and hid a lot until it died . Flashback until now to where this cardinal fish was living eight months in my Reef tank with no signs of disease up until this past week it started getting cloudy eyes white stringy feces stopped eating and hid a lot, it also has thread like white strings on its body. I am dosing prazi pro in my Reef tank as it could be an internal parasite. I am curious to what medication would work the best for the remaining inhabitants once he goes to prevent any future, internal disease, such as this. Also am curious what disease it could be for best treatment. Thank you have a happy thanksgiving

Tough to say what the specific issue is, but the fish is swimming weakly and it looks very thin. The clownfish made a pass at it.

Prazi Pro only cures external flukes and internal tapeworms. The tapeworms don't cause stringy feces though.

There isn't really anything you can do for it in the DT. Can you move it to a hospital tank?

I can move to qt, this happened before with same issues on my old tank with flame cardinal fish, thread like strings on the fishes body, could metroplex or kanaplex be more efficient in treating the other inhabitants as this fish will probably pass later today

 

[anthony blake]

Tough to say what the specific issue is, but the fish is swimming weakly and it looks very thin. The clownfish made a pass at it.

Prazi Pro only cures external flukes and internal tapeworms. The tapeworms don't cause stringy feces though.

There isn't really anything you can do for it in the DT. Can you move it to a hospital tank?

 

[vetteguy53081]

No physical damage other than cloudy eyes thread like strings on the fishes body and it is swimming almost spiraling as if it has no balance

I asked about eyes as can be age, or injury related

 

[anthony blake]

No physical damage other than cloudy eyes thread like strings on the fishes body and it is swimming almost spiraling as if it has no balance

I asked about eyes as can be age, or injury related

I got him about a year ago he was maybe 1 inch but now is 4 inches big, it’s not injury related, I’ve had these same symptoms in the past with other fish in my old tank, I could never treat it as I do not know the diagnosis of what internal parasite it could be

 

[vetteguy53081]

I got him about a year ago he was maybe 1 inch but now is 4 inches big, it’s not injury related, I’ve had these same symptoms in the past with other fish in my old tank, I could never treat it as I do not know the diagnosis of what internal parasite it could be

I can’t open video. Try a you tube version
With cloudy eye, if not injury can be bacterial
Is your tank a reef ready unit or with external filters?
How are you testing water?

 

[anthony blake]

I got him about a year ago he was maybe 1 inch but now is 4 inches big, it’s not injury related, I’ve had these same symptoms in the past with other fish in my old tank, I could never treat it as I do not know the diagnosis of what internal parasite it could be

I can’t open video. Try a you tube version
With cloudy eye, if not injury can be bacterial
Is your tank a reef ready unit or with external filters?
How are you testing water?

My tank is the innovative marine 50 nuvo int , I test my tank 2-3 a week for coral and nutrients, something I’m considering it could be is nematodes or edema though how would I know how to distinguish from the two? Is there any reef safe medication for this disease, it’s basically been killing my fish from my old tank to this new tank

 

[Jay Hemdal]

In this video I can see cloudy eyes, skinny body and frayed caudal fin. Those can be primary symptoms of mycobacterium, fish tuberculosis. That is a ubiquitous bacteria that infects older fish. It is NOT treatable. I’ve seen it in cardinal fish pretty often. It is the #1 cause of death in older captive fish (at least you can isolate it from internal granulomas). It is underreported because the symptoms are so general, and conclusive diagnosis requires a lab culture.