Is this heavy breathing?

[Yamaha1634]

Have a tailspot blenny, a clownfish and 2 pj cardinals in an unmedicated Qt, they've been in for a week and a half. No issues with any of them yet, all eating well after the first few days. No visible signs on the fish or in their behaviour. However the tailspot looks to be possible breathing heavily, but I'm not sure. He's eating well, a mixture of frozen brine and mysis along with nori sheets and picking algae off the things in the tank. Poo is fine, not white or stringy.

Can someone tell me if this breathing is normal pace?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Can’t open video on my phone
Any still pics under white lighting?
Often higher respiration points to:
Flukes
Ich/parasite
High ammonia
Water temp high/low oxygen

Things to check. What test kits are you using?
What is ammonia-nitrate-ph reading?

 

[MnFish1]

@Jay Hemdal is the expert at this - I can also not see the video.

 

[Yamaha1634]

Can’t open video on my phone
Any still pics under white lighting?
Often higher respiration points to:
Flukes
Ich/parasite
High ammonia
Water temp high/low oxygen

Things to check. What test kits are you using?
What is ammonia-nitrate-ph reading?

Best pics i could get, he's a little shy so i have to sneak up on him...

Temp 25.5
Salinity 1.026
pH 8.0
Ammonia as close to 0 as it can be with API
Nitrite 0

 

[vetteguy53081]

Best pics i could get, he's a little shy so i have to sneak up on him...

Temp 25.5
Salinity 1.026
pH 8.0
Ammonia as close to 0 as it can be with API
Nitrite 0

Any way to get a non-api reading such as having a trusted LFS that does not use API check for you ? Api notorious for false results and levels may be higher than shown
Also bring salinity down one point to 1.025

 

[Yamaha1634]

Salinity is being lowered gradually, when the fish came from the LFS they were in water at 1.028 so will bring it down to my DT salinity of 1.024 over the QT period.

Won't have chance to get to an LFS for a few days. I'll do a 50% water change today in case the ammonia is a false reading.

The blennys mouth isn't moving quickly, just the gills are moving quicker than the other fish, didn't notice how fast they were moving before, i may just be paranoid!

The QT is a Fluval Evo which was set up as a DT until I moved the contents over to a larger tank. Then i set up the Fluval as a QT using the filter media that had been in the Evo for months so it should be fully cycled.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Have a tailspot blenny, a clownfish and 2 pj cardinals in an unmedicated Qt, they've been in for a week and a half. No issues with any of them yet, all eating well after the first few days. No visible signs on the fish or in their behaviour. However the tailspot looks to be possible breathing heavily, but I'm not sure. He's eating well, a mixture of frozen brine and mysis along with nori sheets and picking algae off the things in the tank. Poo is fine, not white or stringy.

Can someone tell me if this breathing is normal pace?

The video is too short to get a good count, but I tried: the clip is 2 seconds long and it breathed 6 times. That works out to be 180 gill beats per minutes and that is too fast. Additionally, the fish isn't closing its mouth between breaths - another symptom of respiratory distress.

What is the water temperature?

Generally, non-medicated quarantine isn't recommended. This just gives disease a chance to develop in the new fish, and curing an active disease is always tougher than stopping one from starting.

It could also be a water quality related issue. Can you post a longer video, including the clownfish?

Jay

 

[Yamaha1634]

The video is too short to get a good count, but I tried: the clip is 2 seconds long and it breathed 6 times. That works out to be 180 gill beats per minutes and that is too fast. Additionally, the fish isn't closing its mouth between breaths - another symptom of respiratory distress.

What is the water temperature?

Generally, non-medicated quarantine isn't recommended. This just gives disease a chance to develop in the new fish, and curing an active disease is always tougher than stopping one from starting.

It could also be a water quality related issue. Can you post a longer video, including the clownfish?

Jay

Won't let me upload a video longer than 10mb, limiting me to around 3 seconds.....

What test kit would be suitable for copper testing if i were to start dosing cupramine? I'd then need to follow up with a course of general cure. (I'm in the UK so limited in what I can buy)

Water temp is 25.5c or 77.9f

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Won't let me upload a video longer than 10mb, limiting me to around 3 seconds.....

What test kit would be suitable for copper testing if i were to start dosing cupramine? I'd then need to follow up with a course of general cure. (I'm in the UK so limited in what I can buy)

Water temp is 25.5c or 77.9f

Salifert or Seachem would be better than the API, IMO.

jay

 

[Yamaha1634]

Salifert or Seachem would be better than the API, IMO.

jay

Try that.....

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Try that.....

I don't see really overt rapid breathing in the video, even on the blenny. Still, I would consider giving them a full quarantine, just to be safe.

Jay