Help on BANGAY babies death.

[emperador]

I have got a BANGAY couple that are having babies once a month.
Last week, I caught four cute babies and I left them inside the same reef "“ in a floating box that you can see in the video. The weird thing is that although I was feeding them regularly, one day they started to die, as if they suffered from a panic attack. They opened their mouths wide open and in less than a second died.
I lost two babies in one day and another one the following day.
The last one went through this situation twice but it kept breathing after some minutes and now it seems to be ok.
All these scenes happened during the feeding moment.
I would appreciate any help you can give me or any piece of advice that allow me prevent these beautiful fishes dying in front of my eyes.

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Greetings
Fernando

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

I lost several babies in my first batch.They call it sfs(sudden fright syndrome), when I would turn on my lights they would go crazy and a few would die in a couple of minutes.I changed my pcs to a 70 watt halide and it helped.

 

[RoscoPColtrane]

what are you feeding? what you describe is the result of a lack of fatty acids. this can be supplemented by soaking food in selcon. You should be feeding baby brine shrimp enriched with phyto and selcon. Do a search on baby brine shrimp enrichment and you will get lots of info.

 

[Myka]

Sudden Fright Syndrome is usually caused by overfeeding baby brine shrimp. You want to get them off brine shrimp as early as possible. Enriching them as Rosco suggests does help, but in the end get them off the BBS as soon as possible. They also get stuck on BBS and are hard to wean off if they have been on them for a long time.

Btw, your fish are called Banggai. "Ban-guy".

 

[FMarini]

actually SFS is causes by a lack of HUFAs in the diet during development.
Enriching the BBS w/ SELCO or feed the BBS w/ phytoplankton will boost there nutritional profile
(taken from my article

SUDDEN FRIGHT SYNDROME
aka. SFS. A common problem caused by insufficent HUFAs in the diet during larval development. Symptomatic fish will freeze or faint and drift to the bottom. SFS is brought on by sudden stimuli, including turning on the lights, additions of food, and sudden disturbances (including netting). What actually happens is the stimuli essentially short-circuits (shocks) the nervous system and the fish becomes paralyzed. Depending on the severity and frequency of the event(s), it is often lethal. SFS is readily prevented and corrected, through enrichment of live foods using phytoplanktons (alive or pastes) or if your using dead or prepared foods, then the use of a liquid HUFA suppliment such as Selco, Selcon, Zoecon, etc.

 

[Myka]

actually SFS is causes by a lack of HUFAs in the diet during development.

What do you mean actually? Brine shrimp are notoriously low in HUFAs. You can't enrich NHBBS because they don't feed for 6 hours or so (based on temperature). After 6 hours they need to be enriched to prevent SFS. Enriching with Selcon and other fatty liquids just fouls up the water. Enriching with high-HUFA phytoplankton (either live or paste) is a better bet. That's all just a PITA so getting the Banggai onto frozen foods is easier..within a few weeks.