Dying Anthias

[Deinonych]

This is interesting. Did he share any details, i.e., is shipping stress worse? Parasites bloom in collection waters? Different counties exporting fish? Rapid temp swings from electric heaters stressful?

He didn't offer a hypothesis, unfortunately, just that it was a phenomenon he observed. He said it might have to do with collection methods, but it was just a guess. My question to him was specifically about the incidence of Uronema in Chromis viridis in particular.

 

[MammoDoc]

New question. My 1 remaining Ignitus has survived 2 weeks. I thought for sure it was going to die. It has hemorrhagic areas that come and go and for the lack of a better description bumps under its skin. I'm not sure what to do with this fish. It has never looked healthy. But it is eating mysis!

I'd like to get more Anthias and QT them. Do I give up on the one remaining Ignitus, sterilize the QT and start again? I'm think that putting a new batch of Anthias in with it is not a good idea.

 

[mattcoug]

I also have one survivor that I am medicating heavily with CP and metro. As long as the fish is still active and eating, I won't give up on it. I recommend to give the situation time to resolve itself before making a move in any direction.

 

[shred5]

Honestly hold off.. I been hearing allot of diseased anthias coming in.. I been trying to a get a anthias that is easy to get and my guy has not been able to get them and he can usually get me anything in a couple of weeks.

 

[MammoDoc]

Thanks for the replies. I did notice that the selection of Anthias on LA has suddenly decreased. Well, I guess I'll treat my 1 remaining Ignitus and see how it does and hold off on any new ones as you suggest. I guess there is no hurry, I just wanted to get them before the potentially cold and bad weather hit.

 

[ca1ore]

Honestly hold off.. I been hearing allot of diseased anthias coming in.. I been trying to a get a anthias that is easy to get and my guy has not been able to get them and he can usually get me anything in a couple of weeks.

I agree. I've had similar uronema-ish problems with other vendors besides LA/DD. Bought a quintet of Tukas, got them all eating, but then lost them to exactly this kind of infection. I'm not convinced it's necessarily uronema, because it doesn't appear to be spread beyond the anthias. Quartet of lyretails I got locally at about the same time have been fine however.

May be prudent to just wait a while.

 

[MammoDoc]

I had a Lineopuctatus wrasse and a Hooded wrasse in QT with the Anthias, and the wrasses are perfectly fine. So it does seem to be an Anthias problem.