Found dr reef yellow tang breathing on side

[Kzang]

He was fine. New order from dr reef. Delivered feb 22. Melanurus died 3 days after delivery. Can’t find leopard. This guy was found laying on side. I put him in sump while I thought what to do.

He has a thing poking out on side

I grabbed him and put him in flow of mp40. That got him going to swim. Didn’t see anything besides this spot in his side. He is currently swimming into flow of sump.

All other fish, two clowns, dwarf wrasse is fine.

Edit: I did see the big anthia flash twice yesterday. No other flashing since.


Fish from same order 5 anthias, springeri damsel, kole tang,cleaner wrasse is fine. MIA the leopard and 2 court jester goby

Oddly the kole is not coming out and hiding in the rock away from light.

Currently booting up hospital tank.

 

[Kzang]

Seen one of missing court jester gobies. Kole tang is coming out but going back in after eating some. He stays below rockwork

Anthias are going into rockwork sometimes.

 

[vetteguy53081]

He was fine. New order from dr reef. Delivered feb 22. Melanurus died 3 days after delivery. Can’t find leopard. This guy was found laying on side. I put him in sump while I thought what to do.

He has a thing poking out on side

I grabbed him and put him in flow of mp40. That got him going to swim. Didn’t see anything besides this spot in his side. He is currently swimming into flow of sump.

All other fish, two clowns, dwarf wrasse is fine.

Edit: I did see the big anthia flash twice yesterday. No other flashing since.


Fish from same order 5 anthias, springeri damsel, kole tang,cleaner wrasse is fine. MIA the leopard and 2 court jester goby

Oddly the kole is not coming out and hiding in the rock away from light.

Currently booting up hospital tank.

This fish is extremely thin and may be weak in general or from Transport.
How did you acclimate it and for how long?
Is this a quarantine tank?

Increase oxygen with air stone

 

[Kzang]

Turned on t5 and anthias are out

 

[Kzang]

This fish is extremely thin and may be weak in general or from Transport.
How did you acclimate it and for how long?
Is this a quarantine tank?

Increase oxygen with air stone

He was swimming fine the past few days. At least when I got home from my 12 hour shifts. (No idea why this is bold). Melanurus wrasse died 3 days after delivery. Haven’t seen leopard wrasse sent it went to sand. The rest of the order is still alive. The Kole is out eating.

I turned on the t5 and the anthias came out.

Both court jester govt are out now.

Only the kole is suspicious. Yellow tang hasn’t left the flow.

It’s looking like fluke.

 

[Kzang]

This fish is extremely thin and may be weak in general or from Transport.
How did you acclimate it and for how long?
Is this a quarantine tank?

Increase oxygen with air stone

It’s my display. All fish and inverts from dr reef. I feed 7 times a day with the plank. With some frozen.

Nitrates are 7 and phos is 0.09, with 1.025 salinity

 

[Lavey29]

How many fish did you add at once? You list quite a few. Size and age of the tank?

 

[Kzang]

How many fish did you add at once? You list quite a few. Size and age of the tank?

It’s not ammonia. I added live bacteria and additional 30 lb live rock I had cooking for 2 months. Everything pointing toward flukes

 

[vetteguy53081]

It’s my display. All fish and inverts from dr reef. I feed 7 times a day with the plank. With some frozen.

Nitrates are 7 and phos is 0.09, with 1.025 salinity

Water itself if reading are true is fine. You feed 7x a day - Is this fish physically eating?
When acquiring quarantined fish, assume they have something from shipping and do your own quarantine even for 14 days as an assurance.
Again, how did you acclimate and for how long?

 

[Kzang]

This fish is extremely thin and may be weak in general or from Transport.
How did you acclimate it and for how long?
Is this a quarantine tank?

Increase oxygen with air stone

Got him from dr reef like that. Been running running RO elite 200 int full blast with cup draining back into tank for ph boost from calx reactor. Threw in air stone just in case. Don’t think it’s o2 issue

 

[vetteguy53081]

He was swimming fine the past few days. At least when I got home from my 12 hour shifts. (No idea why this is bold). Melanurus wrasse died 3 days after delivery. Haven’t seen leopard wrasse sent it went to sand. The rest of the order is still alive. The Kole is out eating.

I turned on the t5 and the anthias came out.

Both court jester govt are out now.

Only the kole is suspicious. Yellow tang hasn’t left the flow.

It’s looking like fluke.

Cant say flukes as no symptoms were noted and they often cannot be seen with naked eye. Often if flukes, there will be rapid breathing, sudden motions across tabk, red or swollen gills and loss of color as examples

 

[Lavey29]

It’s not ammonia. I added live bacteria and additional 30 lb live rock I had cooking for 2 months. Everything pointing toward flukes

Actually most of what you described is not fluke like symptoms so I'll ask again how many fish did you add at once? 10 or more? Size and age of the tank? You have a thread going about a tank leak on your new tank last month?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Got him from dr reef like that. Been running running RO elite 200 int full blast with cup draining back into tank for ph boost from calx reactor. Threw in air stone just in case. Don’t think it’s o2 issue

If breathing heavy will be an oxygen issue or disease. Dont have enough info to conclude which one when you are making your own assessments

 

[Kzang]

Water itself if reading are true is fine. You feed 7x a day - Is this fish physically eating?
When acquiring quarantined fish, assume they have something from shipping and do your own quarantine even for 14 days as an assurance.
Again, how did you acclimate and for how long?

I didn’t QT as I paid dr reef to do that for me. He picked at the rocks a little but didn’t see much. I did broadcast mysis and brine. Don’t know if he ate. He is constantly in front of the flow in the sump.

 

[Kzang]

Actually most of what you described is not fluke like symptoms so I'll ask again how many fish did you add at once? 10 or more? Size and age of the tank? You have a thread going about a tank leak on your new tank last month?

There were all small. It is not ammonia issue. I’ve done QT my own fish before and this is either ich, fluke, or velvet. All the other fish are eating and not light sensitive. I had the melanurus death after 3 days. Possibility the ornate leopard. Wrasses are really prone for flukes.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I didn’t QT as I paid dr reef to do that for me. He picked at the rocks a little but didn’t see much. I did broadcast mysis and brine. Don’t know if he ate. He is constantly in front of the flow in the sump.

The problem is, the fish is quarantined at the facility and does not ensure it arrives with no issues when in fact, shipping alone imposes stress and if you did not properly acclimate, fish in shipped bags produce carbon dioxide and ammonia. The carbon dioxide lowers the pH of the water in the bag, That in turn makes the ammonia -toxic to the fish. When you acclimate them, if not done just right, you drive off the carbon dioxide faster than you are diluting the ammonia. That raises the pH of the water in the bag, and that in turn, makes the residual ammonia toxic to the fish.

 

[Dom]

Cant say flukes as no symptoms were noted and they often cannot be seen with naked eye. Often if flukes, there will be rapid breathing, sudden motions across tabk, red or swollen gills and loss of color as examples

The picture the OP posted of the Tang; it looks very pale to me.

 

[Kzang]

If breathing heavy will be an oxygen issue or disease. Dont have enough info to conclude which one when you are making your own assessments

Yellow tang didn’t see eat much. Didn’t see melanurus until death because I worked 12 hours the next 2 days. Third day I saw him dead in tank. Haven’t seen the ornate leopard. All other fish are eating. I’ve been running my RO 200 elite skimmer full blast overflow in the sump. The yellow tang is head into flow on sump.

Parameters are good as listed above. I added 30th lbs of live rock I had marinating for 2 months.

It has to be flukes, ich, or velvet. I saw one of the anthias flash twice yesterday (my first day off work) I work from when they are awake and get home when they about to go to sleep)

 

[Kzang]

The problem is, the fish is quarantined at the facility and does not ensure it arrives with no issues when in fact, shipping alone imposes stress and if you did not properly acclimate, fish in shipped bags produce carbon dioxide and ammonia. The carbon dioxide lowers the pH of the water in the bag, That in turn makes the ammonia -toxic to the fish. When you acclimate them, if not done just right, you drive off the carbon dioxide faster than you are diluting the ammonia. That raises the pH of the water in the bag, and that in turn, makes the residual ammonia toxic to the fish.

They have been in the tank 6 days including the day I got them. See the above reply about everything else. I saw him swim fine and everybody good except the ornate and melanurus which went directly into sand.

 

[Kzang]

The picture the OP posted of the Tang; it looks very pale to me.

It was bone white when I got it and very skinny