UNWD Wrasse?

[himynameis]

see video, based on swimming pattern could this be UNWD? Sorry for the blue light, all fish hide under white light.



Was totally fine yesterday, today I get home from work and saw this. Looks stiff as a board and very vertical swim pattern. Breathing slightly elevated. Occasional mouth wide open. I haven’t seen aggression toward the wrasse since putting him, in from any other fish.

No visible injuries. Wrasse and all other fish are eating well. Wrasse still eats in this condition when feeding.

Tank parameters:
Temp 79F
Salinity 1.026
Nitrate 41
Phos .23
Ammonia 0
Dkh 8.9
110g display and 40g sump. Aquarium about a year and a half old overall system around 3 years.

Tank mates: yellow tang, Tomini tang, bicolor blenny, pair of clowns, white tail bristletooth tang, inverts include some conchs, hermits, snails, emerald crab.

No recent spikes in parameters. No major changes in the system. This is the newest member of the tank (~6 weeks in this tank). Could it be UNWD? Maybe a spinal injury? Something else?

 

[vetteguy53081]

see video, based on swimming pattern could this be UNWD? Sorry for the blue light, all fish hide under white light.



Was totally fine yesterday, today I get home from work and saw this. Looks stiff as a board and very vertical swim pattern. Breathing slightly elevated. Occasional mouth wide open. I haven’t seen aggression toward the wrasse since putting him, in from any other fish.

No visible injuries. Wrasse and all other fish are eating well. Wrasse still eats in this condition when feeding.

Tank parameters:
Temp 79F
Salinity 1.026
Nitrate 41
Phos .23
Ammonia 0
Dkh 8.9
110g display and 40g sump. Aquarium about a year and a half old overall system around 3 years.

Tank mates: yellow tang, Tomini tang, bicolor blenny, pair of clowns, white tail bristletooth tang, inverts include some conchs, hermits, snails, emerald crab.

No recent spikes in parameters. No major changes in the system. This is the newest member of the tank (~6 weeks in this tank). Could it be UNWD? Maybe a spinal injury? Something else?

Seeing the behavior in video and bent spine, looks to be such and fish is becoming moribund in which it may not eat or swim going forward. UNWD shows neurological symptoms where fish either cannot swim well, swims tail down or swims with a bent spine and despite all this, the wrasse will still attempt to feed and display no damage such as crashing into objects. Other could be depending where fish is from, cyanide capture which is delayed but the fish ends up in this state

 

[himynameis]

Seeing the behavior in video and bent spine, looks to be such and fish is becoming moribund in which it may not eat or swim going forward

Well that is very unfortunate. Skimming through @Jay Hemdal post on UNWD…Doesn’t seem like much can be done.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Well that is very unfortunate. Skimming through @Jay Hemdal post on UNWD…Doesn’t seem like much can be done.

Unfortunately that is correct. It affects yellow coris, some fairy and wrasses from Mediterranean

 

[himynameis]

Been watching him try to tuck into the sand for the night and seems to not be able to. Hovering vertically and breathing a bit faster now.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

see video, based on swimming pattern could this be UNWD? Sorry for the blue light, all fish hide under white light.



Was totally fine yesterday, today I get home from work and saw this. Looks stiff as a board and very vertical swim pattern. Breathing slightly elevated. Occasional mouth wide open. I haven’t seen aggression toward the wrasse since putting him, in from any other fish.

No visible injuries. Wrasse and all other fish are eating well. Wrasse still eats in this condition when feeding.

Tank parameters:
Temp 79F
Salinity 1.026
Nitrate 41
Phos .23
Ammonia 0
Dkh 8.9
110g display and 40g sump. Aquarium about a year and a half old overall system around 3 years.

Tank mates: yellow tang, Tomini tang, bicolor blenny, pair of clowns, white tail bristletooth tang, inverts include some conchs, hermits, snails, emerald crab.

No recent spikes in parameters. No major changes in the system. This is the newest member of the tank (~6 weeks in this tank). Could it be UNWD? Maybe a spinal injury? Something else?

Yes - the symptoms are consistent with UNWD. A spinal injury is a secondary diagnosis (as it is with all UNWD cases) but that issue typically shows some facial damage from where the fish ran into something head first.

 

[himynameis]

No visible injuries that indicate spinal injury. He slept through the night by just laying on the sand, but this morning did not look any better. If anything he’s less active than yesterday, still a lot of vertical head up floating around the tank.

Yes - the symptoms are consistent with UNWD. A spinal injury is a secondary diagnosis (as it is with all UNWD cases) but that issue typically shows some facial damage from where the fish ran into something head first.