CoralsAddiction
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The duo. Getting along so far and eating well.
Rhomboid Fairy Wrasse QT
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Whiterabbitrage
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Wow! They look great together. Gorgeous fish. I wish you continued luck during the QT process.
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Things aren't looking good for the pin tail wrasse. He spent the whole day hiding. Now he's on his back/side breathing hard. Rhomboid is doing well still. It seems to me that the rhomboid might have stressed out the pin tail despite its smaller size. I'm pretty sure pin tail is a goner.
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Just reading through some threads about wrasses with similar symptoms: swimming upside down and sideways, breathing heavy, etc point to 3 potential issues: swim bladder, bacterial and/or injury. The wrasse is still on his back and breathing. I don't want to euthanize him yet although he is struggling big time. If he makes it till tomorrow I might add Maracyn 2. Don't know what else to do.
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Pin Tail is officially gone. He stopped breathing about 5-10 mins ago. I didn't bother him when the wrasse was still breathing. But when he stopped and it became obvious that the wrasse was dead I gave him a little nudge. He didn't respond. RIP Pin Tail.
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If I can figure out what it is I sure will. The Rhomboid has now gone through two rounds of Prazi. I might dose Maracyn 2. My goal for Saturday is to clean the QT really well and do a 25% water change. I might increase salinity depending on what my pH and dKH levels are.
I also have two juvenile Onyx clowns in there. They didn't cost me nearly as much as wrasses. However the lengths that I went to find and get them was pretty significant. So, I would be more bummed to lose them than the wrasses to be honest. But the clowns are doing well. One is less than 4 months old and the other one is about 6 months old.
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The Rhomboid is gone too. She ate about 8 hours ago but quickly declined in health. Same symptoms as Pin Tail: unbalanced swimming. staying at the bottom of the tank on her side. rapid and heavy breathing.
I am not a fan of hyposalinity. It seems to stress out some fish. And then it wasn't always a guarantee and some protozoans can tolerate low salinity. I do FW dip for 1 to 3 min, Currently doing quick cure dip also, in between the TTM method . I also added chloroquine in the tank while waiting for the 72hrs to go to next tank. I want to add metro and prazipro right now but I will have to wait for tank transfer method to finish before I do .
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Yes, I will stop using it on wrasses. It has worked on tangs, butterflyfish and clowns very well. The only three fishes that have died in hypo are all wrasses: hawaiian flame, pin tail and now Rhomboid. Strangely they all died at around midnight. So I thought pH was a big factor. Just tested. It came at around 7.6. Lesson learned: hypo and wrasses do not work well together. Ammonia checked out at 0. It was a suspect too.
Sounds like velvet, could also be brooklynella . Look up formalin dips , I used quick cure at 28 drops to a gallon for a 50 min dip. Look up chloroquine. It worked on a sick clownfish. I think many fish stores must add copper to the tanks to keep parasites in check. But not eliminated completely. Hopefully someone chimes in on this. So if you bring a fish home. Usually recommended to do drip acclimation. Then add fish to tank. Most add to main tank and guess what. If smart . One adds fish to qt tank and starts treatment right away . I do not have copper in my tank so any ciliate or protozoan then has a chance of proliferating to extreme and overwhelming fish. I did a FW dip and that did not prevent the disease. If you did hyposaline and didn't work then it points out that is not effective. So if you stick with that method you may still have future casualties. The hypo treatment I believe only works for ich. In my opinion brooklynella and velvet are faster opportunists . So if you treat only for ick then you miss the boat on the other killers. The ph may have been an issue but I think the main culprits were ciliates protozoans .
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