I recently acquired a flame angle with popped eye from a LFS. It was able to heal the popped eye in about two weeks time and had started eating mysis, nori, etc., so things looked promising…
One day (about 2 1/2 weeks later) I fed it some mysis and minutes later it went belly up and proceeded thru the dyeing rituals then finally sank to the bottom of the tank â€"œ about ½ hour later the breathing stopped. The place where it sank was right by the glass so I was able to watch the gill membranes close up, and watching after minutes of feeble movements, they finally stopped. The fish was dead I thought, but why? Cyanide? Turned off the lights and walked away.
About 5 hours later, I walked by the tank, and the dead fish was missing from the spot. Looked again, the flame angel was hiding in the live rocks. Later it swan out and was noticeably wobbling and swam in a circling pattern. Wow! not dead yet, but I didn’t think it had much hope. It stopped feeding for a few days but continued to make a recovery and started to eat better and better. About 10 or so days later, it happened again, but this time it went belly up and was stuck inside the rock works, so I was not able to see if the breathing had stopped completely like last time. I thought, gush it finally died.
That was about a week ago, today this fish is eating nori, mysis, black worm, and nips the algae on live rocks â€"œ no sign of trouble.
This fish is currently in an AP24 quarantine tank w plenty of live rocks, sapphire skimmer, sureflow water circulation, good water parameter. No other fish present, some blue zoanthids and two sps (slimmer, digitata), lps (blasto) corals present (to test if it is reef friendly). I plan to move this fish to my diplay tank 90g sps dominated tank. Should I have any concern?
Anyone has similar experience? Seizure?
-Cliff
One day (about 2 1/2 weeks later) I fed it some mysis and minutes later it went belly up and proceeded thru the dyeing rituals then finally sank to the bottom of the tank â€"œ about ½ hour later the breathing stopped. The place where it sank was right by the glass so I was able to watch the gill membranes close up, and watching after minutes of feeble movements, they finally stopped. The fish was dead I thought, but why? Cyanide? Turned off the lights and walked away.
About 5 hours later, I walked by the tank, and the dead fish was missing from the spot. Looked again, the flame angel was hiding in the live rocks. Later it swan out and was noticeably wobbling and swam in a circling pattern. Wow! not dead yet, but I didn’t think it had much hope. It stopped feeding for a few days but continued to make a recovery and started to eat better and better. About 10 or so days later, it happened again, but this time it went belly up and was stuck inside the rock works, so I was not able to see if the breathing had stopped completely like last time. I thought, gush it finally died.
That was about a week ago, today this fish is eating nori, mysis, black worm, and nips the algae on live rocks â€"œ no sign of trouble.
This fish is currently in an AP24 quarantine tank w plenty of live rocks, sapphire skimmer, sureflow water circulation, good water parameter. No other fish present, some blue zoanthids and two sps (slimmer, digitata), lps (blasto) corals present (to test if it is reef friendly). I plan to move this fish to my diplay tank 90g sps dominated tank. Should I have any concern?
Anyone has similar experience? Seizure?
-Cliff
