mfinn
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I picked up a pair of yellow multi-banded pipefish a couple weeks ago.
Things were looking ok until the day before yesterday, when I noticed one of the pipefish looked as if it has mucus on it's body. not spots like ick, but a coating of sorts, over the back half. Also on it's dorsal fin.
And it looked pretty lethargic and didn't want to fed, even though it was the more aggressive one at dinner time previously.
They were put in a tank with mostly zoanthids, but with a couple octospawns and a couple branching hammers.
As soon as I saw the pipe in that condition I pulled it out and moved it to a setup qt tank. It netted very easy. Wasn't swimming very fast.
The only meds I have at this time is chloroquine phosphate, so I dosed just under 3/4 teaspoon in a 29 gallon tank.
The tank had some pods in it from some live rock, but I also grabbed a big wad of chaeto from a sump and shook out as many pods and amphipods.
Yesterday it hung out mostly in the fake plants and couldn't get a feeding response from mysis or cyclop-eze.
But today it is going after Mysis and is swimming out in the open and acting almost normal.
But the back 1/4 of the fish has a very red appearance that I didn't see yesterday.
As the pipefish swims around the fake plants, every once in a while it's tail will brush the fake plant and it visibly jerks it away like it is sore.
Any clue?
What other med should I get?
Things were looking ok until the day before yesterday, when I noticed one of the pipefish looked as if it has mucus on it's body. not spots like ick, but a coating of sorts, over the back half. Also on it's dorsal fin.
And it looked pretty lethargic and didn't want to fed, even though it was the more aggressive one at dinner time previously.
They were put in a tank with mostly zoanthids, but with a couple octospawns and a couple branching hammers.
As soon as I saw the pipe in that condition I pulled it out and moved it to a setup qt tank. It netted very easy. Wasn't swimming very fast.
The only meds I have at this time is chloroquine phosphate, so I dosed just under 3/4 teaspoon in a 29 gallon tank.
The tank had some pods in it from some live rock, but I also grabbed a big wad of chaeto from a sump and shook out as many pods and amphipods.
Yesterday it hung out mostly in the fake plants and couldn't get a feeding response from mysis or cyclop-eze.
But today it is going after Mysis and is swimming out in the open and acting almost normal.
But the back 1/4 of the fish has a very red appearance that I didn't see yesterday.
As the pipefish swims around the fake plants, every once in a while it's tail will brush the fake plant and it visibly jerks it away like it is sore.
Any clue?
What other med should I get?
