Hey guys.. I made a similar post about a month ago. In my reef tank invertebrates live fine, my blood shrimp keeps eating like a pig.. I do also have a ricordea florida an acan and a styllophora which all are doing great. During the past 2 months any new fish I added has been dead within a few days. The symptoms usually are: The fish is extremely healthy and active and eats normally. I then see the fish hiding for some unknown reason for a day or two. Then the fish starts breathing fast, when I see this symptom I know that the fish will be a gonner within the next few hours.
I am at the point of giving up, I currently have no fish left and I am not planning to add any more for at least 2-3 months, there is something extremely deadly in my aquarium. I have spent the last month reading countless of posts on fish disease but I just can't figure it out. The fish show no sign of white spots. They are healthy and eat out of my hand, then if they start breathing heavily, within 12 hours they are dead, always. My oxygen levels are in check both at the bottom and at the top, I have measured them carefully many many times using the salifert kit. salinity, ammonia, nitrate, pH, kH, magnesium, calcium, phosphate are all in check as well. The fish you see below was an extremely active flasher wrasse, it swam all day in the open and begged for food whenever I happened to pass by the tank. Yesterday he was eating out of my hand, this morning I saw him breathing rapidly, when the lights went out he laid on the sandbed breathing heavily, I proceeded to copper treat him but right when I took him out of the water to freshwater dip him he died in my hands.
I am currently in the process of cycling a qt tank. Not going to be adding any new fish any time soon. Here are some pictures of my flasher wrasse, I hope that somebody with much more experience in fish disease could help me identify what the heck I am fighting right here and guide me on what to do. I have never experienced anything like this and I have been in the hoby for around 9 years. The photos were taken right when he died, note that the exact same symptons are shown prior to every fish death, apart from one of my fish jumping out through an extremely small gap.
(It would not let me directly post the pictures so I added them as attatched files)
I am at the point of giving up, I currently have no fish left and I am not planning to add any more for at least 2-3 months, there is something extremely deadly in my aquarium. I have spent the last month reading countless of posts on fish disease but I just can't figure it out. The fish show no sign of white spots. They are healthy and eat out of my hand, then if they start breathing heavily, within 12 hours they are dead, always. My oxygen levels are in check both at the bottom and at the top, I have measured them carefully many many times using the salifert kit. salinity, ammonia, nitrate, pH, kH, magnesium, calcium, phosphate are all in check as well. The fish you see below was an extremely active flasher wrasse, it swam all day in the open and begged for food whenever I happened to pass by the tank. Yesterday he was eating out of my hand, this morning I saw him breathing rapidly, when the lights went out he laid on the sandbed breathing heavily, I proceeded to copper treat him but right when I took him out of the water to freshwater dip him he died in my hands.
I am currently in the process of cycling a qt tank. Not going to be adding any new fish any time soon. Here are some pictures of my flasher wrasse, I hope that somebody with much more experience in fish disease could help me identify what the heck I am fighting right here and guide me on what to do. I have never experienced anything like this and I have been in the hoby for around 9 years. The photos were taken right when he died, note that the exact same symptons are shown prior to every fish death, apart from one of my fish jumping out through an extremely small gap.
(It would not let me directly post the pictures so I added them as attatched files)
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