Strange wrasse death?

[JakeMonast]

Hey all, I had a new Canary Wrasse for a few days and as time went on, red spots showed up more and more over the past few days, (internal bleeding? Bruises?) and not long ago I got home and saw him laying on his side, barely breathing. So I moved him to a QT with tank water I had just put in there. His condition worsened quickly to the point where he was not breathing and began twitching as if it had been head trauma or something of the sort....

No aggression in the tank, he’s been eating, and acting normally up until tonight. Tank params are as follows:

Nitrate 2ppm
phos .03
Tank is 40br mixed ~1yr old

Pics prior to transfer. Any and all advice is welcome! Thank you.

P.s. sorry my grammar is a**, long day, quick write up.

 

[Big G]

Red sores like that should be viewed with great concern. There's a couple of possible causes: bacterial infections can often present with red sores, and if it's a gram negative infection the fish can perish rather quickly. Another possibility is uronema. Both can kill rather quickly. Also presents with red sores, but usually on chromis. But we have seen uronema jumping onto other species lately. If it's a bacterial infection your DT is probably ok. But if it is uronema, the parasite is active in the DT's water and cannot be starved out by going fallow. The tank would need to be sterilized to kill the parasite. The only way to know for sure would be to do a scrape of the skin and look for the parasite.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bacterial-infections.191511/#post-2196167

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/uronema-marinum.247940/#post-2913295

 

[JakeMonast]

Red sores like that should be viewed with great concern. There's a couple of possible causes: bacterial infections can often present with red sores, and if it's a gram negative infection the fish can perish rather quickly. Another possibility is uronema. Both can kill rather quickly. Also presents with red sores, but usually on chromis. But we have seen uronema jumping onto other species lately. If it's a bacterial infection your DT is probably ok. But if it is uronema, the parasite is active in the DT's water and cannot be starved out by going fallow. The tank would need to be sterilized to kill the parasite. The only way to know for sure would be to do a scrape of the skin and look for the parasite.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bacterial-infections.191511/#post-2196167

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/uronema-marinum.247940/#post-2913295

Hey I appreciate the links, seems like it may have been a bacterial infection, like you suggested as he was in the tank max 48hrs and I do have chromis in the tank that seem to be doing fine. I have heard uronema is common in chromis. Really unfortunate though, I didn’t think the red spots were uronema and all I could find was people saying “yeah my wrasse gets this too but it always goes away.” My fault for not looking further.