Blue-Green Chromis breathing heavily

[Shark888]

Hello,

My newly arrived Blue-Green Chromis just started to breath heavily and it is acting as its going to die, laying on side and floating, not swimming enough against the wavemaker flow.

I got it on April 5th (after 30 hours shipping), on April 6th at night he started to poop a white string.

I tried to feed last night it didn't want to eat.

Chromis is in his dedicated QT. Water is new.

Any advises ?

 

[Shark888]

There are some tiny purple marks over Chromis body.

 

[Shark888]

Video
https://youtu.be/zqxOF-dDx0U

 

[qoeletd]

can you feed they with artemia shrimps? better if enriched


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[qoeletd]

and stop the powerhead and use an aerator like this

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[Shark888]

Chromis is starting become crazy, just now he wake up from his lethargic status to a turbo fish smashing his body against glass and jump over water (lucky I got a cover).

 

[Shark888]

can you feed they with artemia shrimps? better if enriched
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Unfortunately I do not have artemia shrimps but his situation right now is very bad, I dont think it would eat anything.

and stop the powerhead and use an aerator like this

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I added one.

 

[ROlympia]

I would check ammonia. Don't assume.

Also I would cover the tank with a towel and leave him alone. Feed once at some point during the day and if he's gonna recover he'll start taking the food.

Check ammonia.

 

[qoeletd]

Unfortunately I do not have artemia shrimps but his situation right now is very bad, I dont think it would eat anything.




I added one.

in general, chromis like very much artemia, can stimulate they to eat...
however try to add vitamins in the water...


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[Shark888]

Well, I think it's already game over. :headwally:

https://youtu.be/BPSgGYdHwEs

https://youtu.be/xLl1xfQ7VQQ

 

[Shark888]

Im pretty sure he got some disease, it happen very fast within few hours his health deteriorated very fast.

I have Paraguard and Cupramine, anyone think I should use one of them ?

 

[Shark888]

I would check ammonia. Don't assume.

Also I would cover the tank with a towel and leave him alone. Feed once at some point during the day and if he's gonna recover he'll start taking the food.

Check ammonia.

Tested ammonia using Salifert kit : 0.

 

[Shark888]

Chromis is smashing his head against glass, it's really horrible.

One minute he is laying lethargic at the bottom and next minute it launch himself very fast to smash his head against the glass

 

[Shark888]

Chromis is dead. RIP.

 

[Shark888]

Hello, looking from you guys experience, anyone got the following symptoms :

Fish started breathing heavily and became lethargic at the same time, last night at 10PM.

During next hours he stayed in the same state and from time to time woke up by himself and litterally launched and smashed himself against the glass and tried to jump over water (very horrible to see this).

I got this fish three days ago and it was in a dedicated QT tank with all water parameters in check.

 

[j.falk]

Did you test the water that they shipped it in before adding it to your QT? How did you acclimate it? Something was off...it was definitely under some sort of stress.

 

[Shark888]

No I didnt test water. I did acclimate it using a cup pouring slowly and few times my QT new water inside the bag.

The process was done in 5 mn.

So you think he died only because of stress. Im suspecting he got some disease.

I bought two blue-green chromis from this online shop, one was dead on arrival and this one so died within 48 hours.

 

[j.falk]

That fish was under stress. Learn to acclimate your fish correctly: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1959576

 

[nereefpat]

Chromis often come in pretty sickly. The 30hrs of shipping might not have helped.

Usually the best way to acclimate to your qt, especially when fish has been shipped, is to match the salinity of the qt to what is in the fish's bag. Temp acclimate (float) for about a 1/2 he. Then drop fish in the tank.

It might not have mattered though. As I said, chromis can be sickly, coming in with uronema or all sorts of other ailments.

 

[Shark888]

I forgot to write that the bag (closed) was floating in QT water for 30mn before I opened it and so after opening I did as I said a fast acclimatation using a cup.

I bought together with this chromis a skunk shrimp and few lps corals using the same acclim process and they are fine.

Anyway next time I will test water of the bag and see if there are too large differences then I will make it more slowly.