New Foxface not looking good, help please!

[RedG]

Hi all I just got a call from the wife who got home and found one of our new addition Foxface stuck to the power head. He was added last Sunday along with a bicolor dottyback and a purple flyfish. All others seem to be doing fine.

The first day he was added I saw him moving around a picking a some algae, however, the last couple of days he has been camouflaging stuck to the overflow, and swimming in some rocks. He wouldn’t
be active at feeding time, I even put Nori for him and nothing.

I talk the wife to put him on the box while I get home which is another 4 hours, any advise of what can I do to help him out?

My parameters are stable (could post the number later on) tank is about 8.5 months old, all other fish and corals seem to be thriving.

 

[Smirkish]

#reefmedic
#fishmedic

Let’s see if we can figure out what’s going on. Is it breathing rapidly? Any visible signs of injury?

 

[RedG]

#reefmedic
#fishmedic

Let’s see if we can figure out what’s going on. Is it breathing rapidly? Any visible signs of injury?

Couldn’t tell from the video, but definitely looks like he is coming up for air. Not sure if the video uploaded or not, doing it from the phone will try to do a YouTube upload quick

 

[RedG]

Video on YouTube in case it didn’t upload to r2r

 

[threebuoys]

He appears very emaciated. I'm concerned he is starving to death.

 

[Smirkish]

Couldn’t tell from the video, but definitely looks like he is coming up for air. Not sure if the video uploaded or not, doing it from the phone will try to do a YouTube upload quick

Ask your wife if she is able to describe his behavior currently, as well. Have you seen it eat at all since Sunday?

 

[RedG]

Sunday I saw him eating, he looked good. But Monday, Tuesday, and today I haven’t seen him eat. I tried, flakes, pellets, mysis, brine and Nori

Anything else I should try

 

[Smirkish]

Okay, it doesn’t appear interested in the flake at all. It may be very hungry… I would also try to keep it in a calm corner of the tank in the box. Don’t move it around and stress it more. Do you have a local LFS that has macro it would be interested in?

 

[RedG]

Even tho I didn’t see him eat, yesterday he was popping so I guess he ate sometime

 

[RedG]

Okay, it doesn’t appear interested in the flake at all. It may be very hungry… I would also try to keep it in a calm corner of the tank in the box. Don’t move it around and stress it more. Do you have a local LFS that has macro it would be interested in?

I would definitely try to get some first thing in the morning just don’t know if he would make it from the looks of it

 

[Smirkish]

I would definitely try to get some first thing in the morning just don’t know if he would make it from the looks of it

Please update when you are home. Tell your wife to try to keep it as calm as possible until then. If it won’t accept food at this point, it will struggle to recover. I wouldn’t stress it more until I could try and coax it to eat. It looks thin from the video, and additional stress is going to tire it out.

 

[RedG]

Please update when you are home. Tell your wife to try to keep it as calm as possible until then. If it won’t accept food at this point, it will struggle to recover. I wouldn’t stress it more until I could try and coax it to eat. It looks thin from the video, and additional stress is going to tire it out.

Got it just told her to make sure to tie the box to the corner of the tank so it is not bouncing around, and get a better video of it

 

[RedG]

 

[Smirkish]

It appears to be extremely rapid. Can you get us your parameters when able? And please let the fish rest for now. I wouldn’t even try to photograph or video it more at this point. It is very stressed.

 

[RedG]

As of two days ago

Salinity 1.024, temp 78F, ph 8.3, Ammonia 0, Nitrate 0,Mg 1160,

as of earlier today
phosphate .06, dKH 8.5, Ca 430

 

[RedG]

Usually all livestock on my tank goes crazy for food when I use the polyp booster before feeding corals.

Should I try adding a bit of this to see if wants to eat at least something?

 

[threebuoys]

Usually all livestock on my tank goes crazy for food when I use the polyp booster before feeding corals.

Should I try adding a bit of this to see if wants to eat at least something?

At this point, I would try just abut anything to get him to eat, just be prepared to clean up afterward to avoid decaying food.

 

[DanTheReefer]

Wow, I’m sorry. He looks really emaciated, I’ve never seen them or heard of them recovering from that point. You may have luck feeding something irresistible like caviar and amino acids. This is why I switched from the dump and pray to QTing everything, including coral and CUC

 

[RedG]

=_( just got a call from the wife she doesn’t think he made it, I’ll be home in a hour and check it out, sucks

 

[vetteguy53081]

Fish appears beyond distressed and with breathing rate and laying down is a weakened fish that may not make it , to prepare you