HELP!!!!!!!!! Sunburst Anthias Dying!!

[Clover j]

I was fixing my rock work because im sooo tired of trying to put them back in the postion i like and not getting it right!...i must have been working too long at cementing them together..because my sunburst is now at the bottom on his side gasping 4 air...is there anythig i can do???

 

[preef]

What did you use to cement your rocks together? I'm not sure how fixing your rock work would affect your anthias. Did you stir up a deep sand bed and release hydrogen sulfide? Were your rocks dry for too ling causing a die off?

I recently purchased a square back anthias and it started to lay on its side while the bag was floating during acclimation. I'm thinking there was a rapid ammonia buildup. I released him and he laid on his side at the bottom of the tank and was even upside down for a while breathing rapidly. After about half an hour he was fine.

Make sure your tank is well oxygenated. Remove any lids and point your powerheads at the surface, run carbon and do a water change.

 

[namxas]

i agree...that sounds like some type of poisoning, be it from the glue, or possibly disturbing the sandbed and releasing nasty thing into the water column. you might want to drop an airline in and run some extra carbon, maybe a large WC if that doesn't help.

hope the fish pulls thru.

 

[anbosu]

I had something like this happen to me recently, and what saved the fish I could get out was removing them from the tank and putting them in another tank. If you have another tank (even a QT) I would recommend doing that ASAP, because correcting whatever is wrong with your water is going to take longer than that fish probably has to live.

 

[namxas]

I had something like this happen to me recently, and what saved the fish I could get out was removing them from the tank and putting them in another tank. If you have another tank (even a QT) I would recommend doing that ASAP, because correcting whatever is wrong with your water is going to take longer than that fish probably has to live.

that's the best course!