Mystery deaths

[MrsBugmaster]

Post this in my other tread and thought I'd post it here too.

What is going on with my fish?

I had Pakistan and a Latticed butterfly's in QT for 7 to 8 weeks. Treated with PraziPro for 7 days , then cupermine for 14 days, (showing some white spots) Both ate great during both treatments. Left in Qt for two weeks after signs of all disease or parasites were gone and they were doing great. Add them to my DT and they were eating swimming and doing great, with in 3 days they stop eating 4th day they are hiding. Next day dead. Pakistan was flipping upside down on this back. Have 2 shrimp gobies w/shrimp and two neon gobies in tank. They are all doing fine. I now have a tinkers in QT and afraid to put it in DT when the time comes. Any ideas as to what is happening?

Tank parameters:
Salinity 1.025
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
ammonia 0
ph 8.0
FOWLR tank so did not do any other test.

 

[snorvich]

Copper for 14 days is probably insufficient, 30 days for even longer would be better. What was their behavior? Appearance?

 

[MrsBugmaster]

Very active eating like pigs the whole time in QT. After in QT for 7 to 8 weeks they looked beautiful with no signs of anything wrong with them before putting in DT. Once in DT they ate good first 2 to 3 days looked fantastic and were active and swimming everywhere and picking at rock.

 

[MrsBugmaster]

Can some corals be poisonous to fish if they eat them? I have a rock that came with some camo palys on it and the butterfly's were picking at. Could this be the cause of their deaths?

 

[MrsBugmaster]

Not again!
I nuked the rock that had the camo paly's on it so now more coral in tank.
Had tinkeri in QT since 10/21/14. Did TTM, treated with prazi pro, treated with furan 2 metro ms for bacterial infection.
Ate great the whole time it was in QT. Put it in my Display yesterday and now with in 24 hours is doing same thing the Pakistan and Latticed did. First day in DT was swimming everywhere checking the tank out and picking at the live rock. Now this morning it is lethargic, not eating,hiding in cave most of the time.

Tank parameters:
Salinity 1.026
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
PH 8.3 to 8.4
Alk 4meg
Even test for copper, which is 0
Did not do mag or cal since it is FOWLR

Fish did do a big poo which was white chucks and some looked like uneaten food. Other fish in tank ate it. Other fish in tank are yellow watchmen and pink spot goby each with pistol shrimp. And one cleaner neon goby. And a cleaner shrimp.

The biggest question is, what is causing this??
Should I put back in QT before it dies too? Give it another day and see what happens. What else can I test for or should I do? I just don't understand this.

 

[Nina51]

i'm just gonna throw this out there...is there any difference in the salinity from your qt to your dt? if you keep your qt at a lower salinity, a higher salinity in your dt *could* affect the fish.

hope you find out soon!! so sorry for your losses.

 

[MrsBugmaster]

nope they are the same and I did a one hour drip acclimation anyway.

 

[MrsBugmaster]

This afternoon I decided to try a nori sheet. While in QT fish would devour nori when I gave it some. Well, he came out of cave and took 2 bites. Then almost immediately he pooped white chucky poo again, but not near as much as this morning. Now he hangs out at the nori sheet looking at it likes he wants to eat but does not eat any. Is this fish maybe constipated?

 

[MrsBugmaster]

Well Tinkeri is doing fine now. I think it was just constipated and doing great now. How it continues that way.