Ruby Head Fairy Wrasse - shock?

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galpinj

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Hi y'all,

I purchased a ruby head fairy wrasse a few days ago, and have become rather concerned. Since introducing it to the tank, it has stayed in one corner on the sand with extremely little movement. My first impression was shock, but I'm not sure. Any ideas on what can be done?

My tank has been established for a few years, with a variety of other relatively docile fish. I also took time to acclimatize the fella.

Any advice would be very welcome!
 
galpinj said:
Hi y'all,

I purchased a ruby head fairy wrasse a few days ago, and have become rather concerned. Since introducing it to the tank, it has stayed in one corner on the sand with extremely little movement. My first impression was shock, but I'm not sure. Any ideas on what can be done?

My tank has been established for a few years, with a variety of other relatively docile fish. I also took time to acclimatize the fella.

Any advice would be very welcome!
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Need some clarification to assist you.

1: It sounds like you didn't put him through QT which would make it possible to be a couple of different things. Parasites, disease process etc. Without those being ruled out by prophylactic treatment, its a possibility.

2: How did you acclimate him? You say it took time, how much time? Long acclimation times are a known contributer to mortality. Proper acclimation is simply matching temperature and salinity then releasing the fish. Acclimations that exceed 20-30 minutes will kill the fish.

3: Where did you buy him from? If he was shipped, and you drip acclimated him, I would point to this being the culprit.

4: Sometimes fish are collected poorly with techniques that unfortunately have very poor survival rates.

So in order of most likely to least likely given the information at hand I would say your problem(s) is(are):

1: ammonia poisoning from an extended acclimation.
2: parasites/diseases.
3: Poor collection process.
 
Hi Bent,

You are right that we did not quarantine. I would say the acclimitization process took around 30 minutes, certainly not much longer. We got him from the LFS, though it was pretty tough for the owner to catch him. He was lying on the bottom of the bag when we got him home and only moved when we put him in the tank (i.e swam to the corner where he has remained since).
 
galpinj said:
Hi Bent,

You are right that we did not quarantine. I would say the acclimitization process took around 30 minutes, certainly not much longer. We got him from the LFS, though it was pretty tough for the owner to catch him. He was lying on the bottom of the bag when we got him home and only moved when we put him in the tank (i.e swam to the corner where he has remained since).
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Just let him be then. If he was frantically running around and the employee chased him around forever, he's really really stressed out. Hopefully the stress doesn't kill him. Is he breathing?
 
Yes, he appears to be breathing, but that seems to be all he is doing.

Thank you guys for the help. I friend off the lights a few hours ago and am going to give it another day; hopefully things start to look better.
 
Hey Bent,

I haven't been able to find him. Just fed the other fish and hoped he make an appearance, but nothing. I'm hoping for the best now...
 
Hey everyone,

Just found the remains of the wrasse; very unfortunate end. Thank you to everyone for the advice and counsel.
 
My 8 line did this for a week or so before he came out. Still sleeps in the same spot it hid in.



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