Rython
Active Member
This is my second attempt at a linespot flasher wrasse.
I received him Friday afternoon and he went straight to the bottom and laid on his side like he was dead barely breathing. Every wrasse i've ever bought has done that so I didn't think much of it, I turned off the lights and let him chill in low light without really bothering him much day one.
Saturday he ate, but still laid on the bottom all day, not breathing hard though. I started to suspect something was wrong, the other wrasse was out and about. He's in a QT tank with a ruby headed fairy wrasse (separated by egg crate covered in 1/4 in screen) and the fairy is still asymptomatic.
Sat night I started to notice some pink... something on the bottom of the tank. I thought it might be ova (my starter QT food), or waste from eating ova. It was nagging at me though because I also noticed this pink stuff before my last linespot died in QT.
He ate again this morning but was clearly not doing well. By this afternoon I could see damage. I now recognize that the pink stuff I saw must be skin that has sloughed off. I put him in an acriflavine bath (RRR) and am planning to treat. I think i've narrowed it down to an infection or brook. I'm leaning toward infection, but I wanted to bounce it off the community before I treat.
If infection i'm planning to go for the trifecta (metroplex, furan 2 and kanaplex) though the ensuing bacterial bloom scares the crap out of me and makes it really hard to see what is going on in there.
Thoughts?
I received him Friday afternoon and he went straight to the bottom and laid on his side like he was dead barely breathing. Every wrasse i've ever bought has done that so I didn't think much of it, I turned off the lights and let him chill in low light without really bothering him much day one.
Saturday he ate, but still laid on the bottom all day, not breathing hard though. I started to suspect something was wrong, the other wrasse was out and about. He's in a QT tank with a ruby headed fairy wrasse (separated by egg crate covered in 1/4 in screen) and the fairy is still asymptomatic.
Sat night I started to notice some pink... something on the bottom of the tank. I thought it might be ova (my starter QT food), or waste from eating ova. It was nagging at me though because I also noticed this pink stuff before my last linespot died in QT.
He ate again this morning but was clearly not doing well. By this afternoon I could see damage. I now recognize that the pink stuff I saw must be skin that has sloughed off. I put him in an acriflavine bath (RRR) and am planning to treat. I think i've narrowed it down to an infection or brook. I'm leaning toward infection, but I wanted to bounce it off the community before I treat.
If infection i'm planning to go for the trifecta (metroplex, furan 2 and kanaplex) though the ensuing bacterial bloom scares the crap out of me and makes it really hard to see what is going on in there.
Thoughts?
Sometimes fish have such bad flukes on their gills that the freshwater dip causes the flukes to spasm and inhibits the fish's ability to uptake O2 and they literally suffocate as your are trying to save them. So, it's your call. RRR is a great product. Highly recommend it. Its antibiotic and antiseptic when used to treat velvet infected fish greatly increases the survival rates. So if I was treating your fish, I'd probably do the freshwater dip, immediately followed by a bath in RRR to prevent the secondary infections that follow. Make sure to have lots of O2 through a powerhead aimed at the surface. There is the risk though to already stressed fish though. Best of luck.
