Six Line Twitching

[riseandfloat]

I have been treating my six line wrasse since September 13 with copper sulfate due to fungus looking spots on three separate areas of his body. Well, its been about six days and the spots are all gone and he seems to be doing fine besides this weird "twitching" that he does after I watch him for a couple minutes. Anybody have any suggestions as to what this may be? What should I treat it with?

 

[sunfish11]

Have you considered flukes? Did you ever FW dip your wrasse.

Lisa

 

[k.tran]

my purple tang and clowns were doing this, i just raised the temp up to 82 and slowly brought it back down to 80, that fixed it for me

 

[riseandfloat]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13384771#post13384771 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sunfish11
Have you considered flukes? Did you ever FW dip your wrasse.

Lisa

No, I am not familiar with flukes. I will have to search for some info on it. I haven't ever had to freshwater dip a fish before so I haven't considered that an option. Could you explain that to me? Obviously, you just dip them in freshwater but for how long?

And I might raise the temperature as well, going to 82 wouldn't hurt anything but I can't see that curing his twitch unless the parasite or disease that causes that is similar to Ich.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Re: Six Line Twitching

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13384727#post13384727 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by riseandfloat
Well, its been about six days and the spots are all gone and he seems to be doing fine besides this weird "twitching" that he does after I watch him for a couple minutes. Anybody have any suggestions as to what this may be? What should I treat it with?

this sounds like it might be normal 6-line Wrasse behavior to me.
I'm serious. Describe the twitching in detail.

 

[riseandfloat]

Well, basically he just shakes from the left to right real fast, lol. Not being a smartass, but that's what he's doing. I have not seen him rub up or flick against anything, just the twitching. It's like he has a mild case of terrets, he is not doing it constantly, just every once in a while. I'm just not use to seeing my fish with this kind of odd behavior. I usually have to watch him for 2-4 minutes before he does it.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

good news

good news

every 6-line twitches like you describe- even healthy ones.

 

[riseandfloat]

Perfect. Thank you for the information Gary, I obviously had no idea. First time keeping this fish and I really like himl. Probably going to keep him in quarantine for a few more weeks though. Thanks again man.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

you're welcome. Glad I could spare you some unecessary messin' around. FWIW 6-lines are fairly hardy.