Help Diagnose Problem

[kill4u]

I purchased a Powder Brown tang that appeared to be healthy from a local fish store. The fish seemed to be eating and swimming well. Everything seemed good for about 1 week.

I had 5 green chromis, coral beauty and a clown in the tank about 1 week prior to the introduction of the tang. Two of the chromis died right away but everything else seemed to be doing ok. BTW: I returned to the LFS about 2 days after I purchased the chromis and their tank was completely empty. I wonder if all of their chromis died also.


So I fed the fish at night and everything looked good and all of the fish seemed to be eating well. I woke up in the morning and the tang was looking very poor. I went to get a camera and by the time I got back the fish was dead. So the fish went from eating and looking good to dead within 10 hours.

I also noticed that there are air bubbles along the top edge of the tank..

Since that time (approx. 3 days), every fish in the quarantine tank has died.

I wasted tooooo much time trying to get in contact with the marine biologists at a big on-line pet store to try to find out what I should do.. And hence, I lost the whole tank..

I am just trying to find out what I should have done to protect the fish.

Thanks for any guidance...
Brian

 

[JHawlz9989]

There seems to be a lot of disintegration of the coral beauty's fins. Possibly one of the flesh eating bacterias? The only problem with that is WWM states it's almost always a secondary infection. (some information http://www.wetwebmedia.com/infect.htm)

One suggestion I have is to take your fish to a local school, and see if the biology department can tell you definitively what you're dealing with. I have talked to some of the professors at my school, and they were very receptive to the idea of doing a quick biopsy of the fish. While this doesn't change the fact that you have lost your fish, knowing what you were up against is worth it's weight in gold, IMO.

Josh

 

[hollister]

I dont see anything for water movement. You need good steady water flow from power heads to bring oxygen in the water. This is done by a gas exchange at the surface.