Flame Angel Almost Dead

[sunil6784]

Very discouraged...

My flame angel is in QT now. He's almost dead. I've had him almost 3 months. He spent 1 month in QT. The last week I noticed him not pecking much at the rock, and within the last 3 days he was swimming very weakly, as if there was too much flow. I moved him to QT today, as a last resort because I thought the stress would be worse for him. I googled about it and found that it looks a lot like swim bladder problems.

He was by far my favorite fish. Just very discouraged as I've lost a purple tang, foxface, and now flame angel in the past 5 months.

 

[sreefs]

How long has the tank been set up? What size is the tank? What other fish are with the Flame?

 

[monopolybag]

Paraguard has worked for me. I have dipped them and used to dose tanks. Seems to be a very minimal stress light treatment.

 

[AfricaOffroad]

Those are all fairly tough fish.
Something in your tank is not right, you need to find out what the root cause of the deaths is.

 

[Sk8r]

Definitely this is not normal. You could have a hidden killer, like a mantis; you could have flukes, or an oxygenation issue. Tell us your total tank data: parameters, equipment, size, etc.

 

[sunil6784]

75 Gallon w/20 gallon sump
Remora pro Skimmer
TLF Phosban reactor set up about 3 weeks ago
About 70 pounds of LR
8x54 Tek T5
Salinity 1.025
Nitrate/Phosphate read 0 - Some cyano in tank
Flow = 2 Korallia 3's in tank, plus a 400-450 from return from sump
All of the water surface is moving..

Seems like all fish that died had a bulge in their stomach.. the flame is still barely alive in QT...haven't seen much of him today as he's hiding behind rock... I'm treating with Maracyn 2 in QT.

Tank has been set up a year..

Fish:
Purple Dottyback
4" 2 bar rabbitfish
Orange Spotted Goby
2 Oscellaris Clowns

Inverts:
1 cleaner shrimp
1 peppermint shrimp
1 pistol shrimp

The clowns have been in the tank almost a year, goby almost 8 months, and dottyback about 9 months... all with no issues...

It's really tough to see a fish suffer...

 

[sunil6784]

bump...

 

[muppet]

Do you have any update on your flame?