Leapord wrasse acting up

[thecommentr86]

Hello I have an emergency my leapord wrasse is acting very weird, yesterday morning he was fine before after 5 minutes he crashed and spent most of the day on his side breathing heavy I increased oxygen in the tank, turned off the lights and in the evening he was normal again. This morning now he’s doing this. I will add yesterday when he came out of the sand my black clownfish died right ontop of where he sleeps (no idea how salinity is 1.026, ammonia 0, nitrate 0, nitrite 20ppm (I have corals), PH 8.1 all other fish are fine apart from those 2 and the leapord wrasse is super off as he seemed to have funny recovered last night and today is worse with spinning issue I’ve had him for 3 months. All this these tank issues had a flame angel die started when I left for a weekend and my brother didn’t turn the lights on cause an anemeoento die or top of the water so the salinity went to 1.029 this was about a week ago.

 

[thecommentr86]

I will add 2 days ago I did hear a thump unsure if a fish tried to jump and not the top of the cover

 

[Fish Fan]

I'm sorry to see your fish in distress! Wrasses sometimes develop a neurological disease, but unfortunately I don't believe there's a cure for that. Maybe one of the R2R #fishmedic team can take a look for you.

Good luck!

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Hello I have an emergency my leapord wrasse is acting very weird, yesterday morning he was fine before after 5 minutes he crashed and spent most of the day on his side breathing heavy I increased oxygen in the tank, turned off the lights and in the evening he was normal again. This morning now he’s doing this. I will add yesterday when he came out of the sand my black clownfish died right ontop of where he sleeps (no idea how salinity is 1.026, ammonia 0, nitrate 0, nitrite 20ppm (I have corals), PH 8.1 all other fish are fine apart from those 2 and the leapord wrasse is super off as he seemed to have funny recovered last night and today is worse with spinning issue I’ve had him for 3 months. All this these tank issues had a flame angel die started when I left for a weekend and my brother didn’t turn the lights on cause an anemeoento die or top of the water so the salinity went to 1.029 this was about a week ago.

At first, I thought that the issue was that the wrasse is VERY thin (common with this species, they are delicate and often starve to death!). However, the other fish dying indicates that something else is going on. I suspect that the flame angel may have brought in a parasite. The anemone dying may indicate a water quality issue, or it could just be a coincidence - I cannot really say. The salinity issues, while not ideal, should not have caused the fish to die like this.

What other fish are in the tank?
Any of them breathing fast or not eating well?
Can you post a more general video of the tank, with the other fish in frame?
Do you have a quarantine/hospital tank available?

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[W31Olds]

Your Wrasse does look extremely thin to me. I could see this on a new arrival but a fish that you've had for three months, not so much. What's he been eating?

 

[thecommentr86]

Your Wrasse does look extremely thin to me. I could see this on a new arrival but a fish that you've had for three months, not so much. What's he been eating?

Copepods and brine shrimp!

 

[thecommentr86]

At first, I thought that the issue was that the wrasse is VERY thin (common with this species, they are delicate and often starve to death!). However, the other fish dying indicates that something else is going on. I suspect that the flame angel may have brought in a parasite. The anemone dying may indicate a water quality issue, or it could just be a coincidence - I cannot really say. The salinity issues, while not ideal, should not have caused the fish to die like this.

What other fish are in the tank?
Any of them breathing fast or not eating well?
Can you post a more general video of the tank, with the other fish in frame?
Do you have a quarantine/hospital tank available?

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Update basically everything in the tank died…I took my water to my local LFS to be checked and it was all within good parameters salinity 1.025, ammonia 0, nitrates 0, nitrites 40ppm, pH I think was 8.1, I did realize my skimmer was broken and I fixed it and it immediately almost became yellow / ornage color in the skimmer container. The LFS thinks it could have been velvet that never showed the spores or slime film but killed my fish from gill infections or something else. I’m just waiting to add new fish keep testing water parameters seem fine and I only have a cardinal and watchman goby that survived and they have been doing great so I’m still at a loss as I’m not sure what the heck happened over the course of 2 weeks and most of these fish I had for almost a year

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Update basically everything in the tank died…I took my water to my local LFS to be checked and it was all within good parameters salinity 1.025, ammonia 0, nitrates 0, nitrites 40ppm, pH I think was 8.1, I did realize my skimmer was broken and I fixed it and it immediately almost became yellow / ornage color in the skimmer container. The LFS thinks it could have been velvet that never showed the spores or slime film but killed my fish from gill infections or something else. I’m just waiting to add new fish keep testing water parameters seem fine and I only have a cardinal and watchman goby that survived and they have been doing great so I’m still at a loss as I’m not sure what the heck happened over the course of 2 weeks and most of these fish I had for almost a year

Sorry to hear.

Could have been velvet, maybe gill flukes.

The problem is that with the goby and cardinal still in the tank - any fish parasites present may not completely die out.

 

[thecommentr86]

Yea I know that’s a risk I gotta wait it’s been 2 weeks trying to set a QT tank and they are still super healthy and fat so maybe they got off Scott free.

 

[W31Olds]

Update basically everything in the tank died…I took my water to my local LFS to be checked and it was all within good parameters salinity 1.025, ammonia 0, nitrates 0, nitrites 40ppm, pH I think was 8.1, I did realize my skimmer was broken and I fixed it and it immediately almost became yellow / ornage color in the skimmer container. The LFS thinks it could have been velvet that never showed the spores or slime film but killed my fish from gill infections or something else. I’m just waiting to add new fish keep testing water parameters seem fine and I only have a cardinal and watchman goby that survived and they have been doing great so I’m still at a loss as I’m not sure what the heck happened over the course of 2 weeks and most of these fish I had for almost a year

Please elaborate. Your Wrasse died but you state "basically everything in the Tank died". Have others died since the Wrasse and what were their symptoms? Copepods and Brine Shrimp are not sufficient to sustain your wrasse. Brine shrimp don't have that much nutritional value and a wrasse could eat 1000's of Copepods a day.

 

[thecommentr86]

what should I feed my leapord wrasse than that’s what I said online cope pods and brine or mysis shrimp. Also my bad I should have put frozen mysis shrimp. So after my leapord wrasse died a fish died before it as well all my other fish had the same symptoms as breathing heavy, on the floor and randomly dying but my inverts are fine corals are fine took water to LFS checked out fine I posted my parameters. I was really sad so things that died were menarius wrasse, 2 clownish, 1 damselfish, Springer dottyback. Everything was fine for 9 months leapord wrasse was the newest addition but at this point he had been in the tank for 3 months. All of the fish that died would be fine the day before they died example would be when my melanrius died it was eating the day before, swimming normally, breathing normally, going in and out of rocks looking for cope pods and he was FAT cause he as a hog. Woke up in the morning he was dead, so velvet on him, no spots, still had bright color, and all the other fish died in similar ways. I even took the corpse to my LFS and they were super stumped and I am also. The only thing I can thing of is some form of bacteria that was asymptomatic didn’t show physical signs or something with the skimmer. This all started when an anemone I had died while I was gone for a weekend, my brother didn’t turn on the lights so I’m assuming it starved. When I came back scooped it out did a big water change, salinity and temp matched made sure and I use RO water only. Just trying to give as much information as possible as I’m really down about this and stumped especially because my corals are growing I’ll send a picture of a my tank.

 

[thecommentr86]

Sorry for grammar I suck at typing on a iPhone and pictures are blue but my tank isn’t…I don’t have any hair algae or brown sand etc. from a visually perspective tank is clean and my parameters seem fine unless I’m missing something and so is my LFS. This always happens when I go away for vacation…the tank is always fine when I’m home and all I need someone at home to do is top it up with RO water