scopas tang discoloration

[geee]

Hello,

Came home today to find my scopas tang discolored.

Yesterday she was fine. I did a water check the day before
4/16 and all was good.

her breathing was o.k. but noticed one of my green chromis is breathing rapidly. I looked online at marine velvet
and others but cant figure it out. I tested the water today and all is fine. fed her and she was eating fine and
am right now preparing to do a 10% water change.

Any ideas what this might be?

I will post pictures as soon as photobucket downloads them.

Thanks,
geee

 

[geee]

2:00pm

6:00pm

 

[arizona tech]

is the fish new?

 

[geee]

arizona tech.

yeah got him on 4/11
but he was fine till today

geee

 

[arizona tech]

if he is eating and your water parms are in check i would leave it for now my bannerfish gets discolored from time to time especially when i turn the lights on, i take it the fish is in your 75, any qt tank, i have seen marking like that on tangs like that

 

[geee]

arizona tech,

I would not worry as much but my chromis is breathing
really really fast and my saddleback clownfish is breathing faster then normal and is hanging in the same spot. There is definetly
something wrong.

as i said my:

ammonia 0
nitrate 0
nitrite 0
ph 8.2
salinty 1.024
temp 80.7

This is a better photo of how she looks:

i tried to catch the white blotches on her nose:

 

[geee]

chromis just got sucked under powerhead got to figure
out whats happening, need help.

 

[arizona tech]

from what you describe that tang could have brought a disease into your tank,that is why every new fish you quartine them, is the chrome still alive? what type of powerhead? you need to put a strainer on the end of the powerhead so things like this dont happen

 

[geee]

Now the clownfish just died what the f*&K

 

[arizona tech]

ok from what it sounds like the tang brought in a disease could be brooknella(sp) marine velvet, does the tangs skin look like it is peeling? any white spots?

 

[geee]

arizona tech,

Your probably right about me Quarantining new fish. I need to
set one up. no the chromis is dead and the clownfish just died.
i will buy strainers tomorrow.

looks like a little peeling near the white spot at the fin. look at the second picture first post


Thanks for bearing with me

 

[arizona tech]

trust me alot of people have been in your shoes now if the tang dies i would leave your 75 without fish for at least a month, then get a 15-25 gallon tank and set up your new qt tank

 

[geee]

arizona tech,

so i let the tank sit without fish for a month but continue to do maintenance?

I have about 30 different snails should i leave them in
the tank or should i get them out if the remaining fish die?

After this i will probably just get one really nice fish and thats it.


Thanks again for your patience and help

 

[arizona tech]

leave the snails in the main, its hard to say the type of disease the tang brought in but i would leave the main fishless for a min 1 month, in the main feed the snails a little food maybe like once or twice a week

 

[geee]

Thanks for all your help Arizona tech, hopefully i will figure
out what went wrong besides not Quarantining new fish but
like i said i will probably go the one nice fish route.

Geee

 

[TerryB]

Do the fish scratch and breath rapidly? If so it could be velvet (amyloodinium). That is bad news. You should try a large water change in case there is a toxin in the water.
Brooklynella usually doesn't spread rapidly unless the water conditions are really poor. It could be a bacterial infection, but most of them to not spread and kill the fish quickly. First guess is velvet, especially since you don't quarantine. You should try Cupramine since it is the best copper. Test the level twice a day and follow the instructions on the bottle for the first two days. Then you will have to add more as the level will fall. Hope its not too late already.

Terry B