Dead and ill fish!!!!

[craig51]

Specs RIO 180 tank, 22kg LR, 2x SEIO 820s, T5s, 300Watt heater.
Temp 25C, Nitirite 0, Nitrate 1,Salt 1.024, Phosphate 0
Run Purigen and Ultiphos in the skimmer in media bags.I have the usual cleanup crew of smails and shrimps, and I am now 4 weeks in using the prodibio range.

Went to bed last night and all fish were happy, this was at 01:30

Woke up today at 10:00, and my male clown fish was dead!!!!!Upside down behind a rock. Like i said, they were happy bunnies yesterday, fish was totally intact and seemed normal.

Looked at my other fish, first the female clown fish looks like it has a dusting on it, heres a pic

And then notcied this about the fin(our left side) on my coral beauty

PLEASE HELP.

 

[craig51]

Now my wrasse is on his way out, dont give him anymore than 2 hours to live :-(

 

[TerryB]

DO you quarantine all fish for days prior to adding them to the display tank? When was the last fish added. Any details on the symptoms? Scrathing or rapid breath? How strong is your eyesight? I see what looks like symptoms of a parasite with fin degeneration (maybe secondary bacterial infection). Need a lot more details to help. Suspect amyloodinium.

Terry B

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

I hear copper is good for amyloodinium, although your inverts would be dead. It floats around in the water while it is reproducing, easily infecting all of your fish :/ Is the 'dust' on your clown is a dirty brown? I don't think the parasite can last more than a couple weeks without fish to feed from.