Help please! Powder blue blood coming from gills

clown1997 · Feb 27, 2023

Hi I have gone to my tank and found my powder blue dead on the sand. I have took him out of the tank when I have looked at him he as blood coming from is gills. I have never seen this before on a fish why as this happened, can anybody please help me. I have done a test for ammonia and it as come back clear. I am gutted as he was a stunning fish and one of my favourites in the tank. He was feeding yesterday and swimming around like he normally would.

KING KONG · Feb 27, 2023

clown1997 said:
Hi I have gone to my tank and found my powder blue dead on the sand. I have took him out of the tank when I have looked at him he as blood coming from is gills. I have never seen this before on a fish why as this happened, can anybody please help me. I have done a test for ammonia and it as come back clear. I am gutted as he was a stunning fish and one of my favourites in the tank. He was feeding yesterday and swimming around like he normally would.

#fishmedic

KING KONG · Feb 27, 2023

clown1997 said:
Hi I have gone to my tank and found my powder blue dead on the sand. I have took him out of the tank when I have looked at him he as blood coming from is gills. I have never seen this before on a fish why as this happened, can anybody please help me. I have done a test for ammonia and it as come back clear. I am gutted as he was a stunning fish and one of my favourites in the tank. He was feeding yesterday and swimming around like he normally would.

May be ammonia burn. Still not sure. Expert's will answer this better than me. Sorry for your fish.

clown1997 · Feb 27, 2023

KING KONG said:
May be ammonia burn. Sorry for your fish.

I have tested for ammonia they is nothing in my tank of ammonia it is clear when did the test

KING KONG · Feb 27, 2023

clown1997 said:
I have tested for ammonia they is nothing in my tank of ammonia it is clear when did the test

Just wait for few minutes expert's will answer this better than me

clown1997 · Feb 27, 2023

KING KONG said:
Just wait for few minutes expert's will answer this better than me

Will do thank you tho much appreciated for your replys. I am still new to this group so I didn’t know was a hashtag to do. Once again thank you

Cyanohater · Feb 27, 2023

clown1997 said:
I have tested for ammonia they is nothing in my tank of ammonia it is clear when did the test

what ammonia test did you do? is it out of date?

fishguy242 · Feb 27, 2023

any other fish in tank showing any signs of distress ?
have you recently added any meds ?

Tanglover1 · Feb 27, 2023

clown1997 said:
Hi I have gone to my tank and found my powder blue dead on the sand. I have took him out of the tank when I have looked at him he as blood coming from is gills. I have never seen this before on a fish why as this happened, can anybody please help me. I have done a test for ammonia and it as come back clear. I am gutted as he was a stunning fish and one of my favourites in the tank. He was feeding yesterday and swimming around like he normally would.

Looks like ammonia burn to me. I hv not seen Parasite doing this. U can do a water change when expert's say

clown1997 · Feb 27, 2023

fishguy242 said:
any other fish in tank showing any signs of distress ?
have you recently added any meds ?

Nope my other fish seem fine swimming around and eating. Nope I haven’t put any meds in my tank.

clown1997 · Feb 27, 2023

fishguy242 said:
Cyanohater said:

what ammonia test did you do? is it out of date?

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nope my test is new

clown1997 · Feb 27, 2023

Tanglover1 said:
Looks like ammonia burn to me. I hv not seen Parasite doing this. U can do a water change when expert's say

Yeah I will be doing water changes, Yh gonna see what the experts say. As I have no clue why this as happened or why he as blood coming from his gills

Tanglover1 · Feb 27, 2023

clown1997 said:
Yeah I will be doing water changes, Yh gonna see what the experts say. As I have no clue why this as happened or why he as blood coming from his gills

There is something wrong regarding water chemistry

Sharkbait19 · Feb 27, 2023

Was there anything picking at the fish when you found it? A blood vessel could have been punctured, causing the blood.
Flukes can also be a possibility, when they drop off they often leave wounds on the fish.
How was the tang acting before it died?

Tcook · Feb 27, 2023

How long have you had the fish? Was it quarantined? What are other whater parameters? Was this an API test?

clown1997 · Feb 27, 2023

Sharkbait19 said:
Was there anything picking at the fish when you found it? A blood vessel could have been punctured, causing the blood.
Flukes can also be a possibility, when they drop off they often leave wounds on the fish.
How was the tang acting before it died?

Nope nothing was on the fish it was just the blood coming from his gills that all I saw, nothing else was on him. The fish was acting fine he was eating and swimming around woke up this morning and found him dead on the sand

clown1997 · Feb 27, 2023

Tcook said:
How long have you had the fish? Was it quarantined? What are other whater parameters? Was this an API test?

I have had him nearly a year now. Yeah it was established already in fish tank as got him from someone else tank as he was shutting is tank down. And as been fine no concerns, are like a pig and swimming around. Was shocked to see him dead on the sand as no signs that something was wrong with him.This wasn’t api test.

Tanglover1 · Feb 27, 2023

@vetteguy53081 may help u

vetteguy53081 · Feb 27, 2023

clown1997 said:
Hi I have gone to my tank and found my powder blue dead on the sand. I have took him out of the tank when I have looked at him he as blood coming from is gills. I have never seen this before on a fish why as this happened, can anybody please help me. I have done a test for ammonia and it as come back clear. I am gutted as he was a stunning fish and one of my favourites in the tank. He was feeding yesterday and swimming around like he normally would.

This is not flukes or ammonia burn but often a fish may bleed or hemorhage when laboring for last breaths. It is hard to determine cause with a dead fish but assume. Some other possibilities are:
Injury (my guess)
Ingested something sharp
Blood could be result of scavengers starting to pick at it
IF ammonia poisoning, fish would first be gasping at the surface for a while and fins will have red streaks
Crashing into object (another possibility)

clown1997 · Feb 27, 2023

vetteguy53081 said:
This is not flukes or ammonia burn but often a fish may bleed or hemorhage when laboring for last breaths. It is hard to determine cause with a dead fish but assume. Some other possibilities are:
Injury (my guess)
Ingested something sharp
Blood could be result of scavengers starting to pick at it
IF ammonia poisoning, fish would first be gasping at the surface for a while and fins will have red streaks
Crashing into object (another possibility)

Yep it is hard when just suddenly dies. Yeah didn’t think it would be ammonia or flukes thank you. Okay so could be a lot of things just one of them things that happen in the hobby. Yh maybe he got injured during the night guess we never know what happens but good to know what might have happened to him for him to die. Thank you