Midas blenny not doing well

[ashetrash]

help!! my midas blenny in my QT tank started rapidly declining this morning refusing food and becoming lethargic and losing his color. he looked great a couple days ago and was eating fine. i dosed with copper this afternoon as a precaution when i noticed he didn’t eat this morning, and his color was only getting worse becoming more washed out when i checked on him several hours later. i don’t know if this is regular stress or something else, he did look slightly “dusty” so i suspected velvet but it could have been due to him losing his color, its hard to tell. his breathing seems to be doing okay but im just very worried, i dont want to lose this fish :(
any advice is appreciated.

 

[vetteguy53081]

help!! my midas blenny in my QT tank started rapidly declining this morning refusing food and becoming lethargic and losing his color. he looked great a couple days ago and was eating fine. i dosed with copper this afternoon as a precaution when i noticed he didn’t eat this morning, and his color was only getting worse becoming more washed out when i checked on him several hours later. i don’t know if this is regular stress or something else, he did look slightly “dusty” so i suspected velvet but it could have been due to him losing his color, its hard to tell. his breathing seems to be doing okay but im just very worried, i dont want to lose this fish :(
any advice is appreciated.

Fish is very thin and while it appears active, may be feeding off its liver, known as Edema and not uncommon with this species

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

help!! my midas blenny in my QT tank started rapidly declining this morning refusing food and becoming lethargic and losing his color. he looked great a couple days ago and was eating fine. i dosed with copper this afternoon as a precaution when i noticed he didn’t eat this morning, and his color was only getting worse becoming more washed out when i checked on him several hours later. i don’t know if this is regular stress or something else, he did look slightly “dusty” so i suspected velvet but it could have been due to him losing his color, its hard to tell. his breathing seems to be doing okay but im just very worried, i dont want to lose this fish :(
any advice is appreciated.

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

How long have you had the blenny?
What is the water quality, especially ammonia?

I don’t see velvet, but the not eating is a serious symptom…..

 

[ashetrash]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

How long have you had the blenny?
What is the water quality, especially ammonia?

I don’t see velvet, but the not eating is a serious symptom…..

hi! i had him around 4-5 days in QT. unfortunately he passed overnight, ammonia was zero. he passed in less than 24h after the morning he didn’t eat. i did a water change before dosing copper. he didn’t eat, became extremely lethargic, and rapidly declined which makes me think it was velvet or even possibly brooklynella because of his severe discoloration/ fading. i don’t think it was edema like someone else had mentioned. overall i wont know because i dont have a microscope but i am so sad he didnt make it, i did all that i could for him :(

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

hi! i had him around 4-5 days in QT. unfortunately he passed overnight, ammonia was zero. he passed in less than 24h after the morning he didn’t eat. i did a water change before dosing copper. he didn’t eat, became extremely lethargic, and rapidly declined which makes me think it was velvet or even possibly brooklynella because of his severe discoloration/ fading. i don’t think it was edema like someone else had mentioned. overall i wont know because i dont have a microscope but i am so sad he didnt make it, i did all that i could for him :(

Sorry to hear. Not sure what the issue was. Velvet causes extremely rapid breathing, and Brooklynella causes thick skin mucus.

 

[Zymotic]

That sucks! I had something similar happen to my bicolor blenny. He would graze on the rock but would refuse any food I tried feeding him. I would even put food right next to his little burrow and he would ignore it. After about three weeks I noticed he was hiding more and two days later he was out of his hole and I could see he had a sunken belly. He died shortly thereafter and the only thing I can think of is that he had an internal parasite.