Orange shoulder tang sick.

marinefish4life

New member
Hi guys,
Recently (3 weeks ago) i brought 3 fish back from Auckland, 7cm still juvi orange shoulder tang, 6cm melnurus wrasse and a yellow head sandsifter. Everything was fine and eating until about saturday when the wrasse randomly dropped dead, i have uploaded a pic of the half dead wrasse (now dead) to try ID why it died. I then noticed brown markings on the tang and he began to start acting weird, like twitching and a little bit of itching, am now worried. The brown markings are where the gut is on a both sides and also around different parts of the body, they are disappearing and appearing though. But the tang isn't acting fine still. He's still eating, both nori and frozen mussel etc. Thinking about fresh waterdip. Any idea on what it could be? Thanks!


 
Update: yesterday we did a 5 minute freshwater dip with methaline blue. The tang handelled being in the water surpisingly well. Put him back in the qt and he swam down fine. This morning found him dead on his side. Was found to be a suspected agressive Bacterial infection, the dead fish showed the markins much more and really bad. New lessons learned again.
 
Back
Top