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Want to share my terrible experience with quarantining wrasses.
2 days ago I got 4 wrasses from an LFS: a leopard wrasse, a checkerboard wrasse, a yellow coris wrasse and a melanurus wrasse.
I know in the store they were kept at lower salinity (~1.019 they said) with some prophylactic level of copper. I got them home, acclimated to the regular salinity over ~30 minutes in 3 doses of freshly mixed saltwater eventually doubling the volume of water in the container. Then I placed them in a freshly started non-medicated 20g QT with a heater, air stone, ammonia alert and a small wavemaker. They were stressed but all active at first. The next day I noticed the leopard wrasse started rolling over sideways and was breathing heavily. I suspected flukes as I read tons of stories how they are susceptible to those parasites. I gave him a 5 minute freshwater bath in a plastic container of RO/DI water with matching temperature. Then I released the fish back into the QT and added 4ml of prazi pro per 20 gallon tank (it wasn't full, so I did 4ml instead of 5).
In about 2 hours the leopard wrasse got way worse, started rolling over more. I thought it was prazi pro sensitivity and put him into another QT with non-medicated water. In the morning he was dead.
In the first tank medicated with prazi pro the melanurus and the checkerboard were lethargic, and the yellow coris was lying on his back barely breathing. I moved the yellow coris into the second non-medicated QT tank where he died in an hour.
Now I moved the remaining melanurus and checkerboard wrasses to the non-medicated tank and they are not looking good. The weird thing that may give some signal is they both are using only one of their pectoral fins. Attaching a video of them now.
Any thoughts how I can save them?
And generally, what the heck is going on? Is it prazi pro? Or is it flukes that were suppressed by the hiposalinity in the store but got active once placed into a regular saltwater?
2 days ago I got 4 wrasses from an LFS: a leopard wrasse, a checkerboard wrasse, a yellow coris wrasse and a melanurus wrasse.
I know in the store they were kept at lower salinity (~1.019 they said) with some prophylactic level of copper. I got them home, acclimated to the regular salinity over ~30 minutes in 3 doses of freshly mixed saltwater eventually doubling the volume of water in the container. Then I placed them in a freshly started non-medicated 20g QT with a heater, air stone, ammonia alert and a small wavemaker. They were stressed but all active at first. The next day I noticed the leopard wrasse started rolling over sideways and was breathing heavily. I suspected flukes as I read tons of stories how they are susceptible to those parasites. I gave him a 5 minute freshwater bath in a plastic container of RO/DI water with matching temperature. Then I released the fish back into the QT and added 4ml of prazi pro per 20 gallon tank (it wasn't full, so I did 4ml instead of 5).
In about 2 hours the leopard wrasse got way worse, started rolling over more. I thought it was prazi pro sensitivity and put him into another QT with non-medicated water. In the morning he was dead.
In the first tank medicated with prazi pro the melanurus and the checkerboard were lethargic, and the yellow coris was lying on his back barely breathing. I moved the yellow coris into the second non-medicated QT tank where he died in an hour.
Now I moved the remaining melanurus and checkerboard wrasses to the non-medicated tank and they are not looking good. The weird thing that may give some signal is they both are using only one of their pectoral fins. Attaching a video of them now.
Any thoughts how I can save them?
And generally, what the heck is going on? Is it prazi pro? Or is it flukes that were suppressed by the hiposalinity in the store but got active once placed into a regular saltwater?