Six line wrasse whats wrong with him?

[Tremolo]

I just got a six line wrasse on sunday and today he is not looking to good i dont know if he is sick or if he is just beat up from my flame hawk. When i first put him in the tank the flame would case him around a liitle and but now he leaves him alone...


Here is a pic. What do you think?

Thanks Vince

 

[Tremolo]

sorry about the cloudy water I just added some more rock.

oh yeah water parameters are:
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
Ph 8.3
Alk is in the normal range.

 

[Tremolo]

Anyone???

 

[bllfish]

Is he eating?

 

[Tremolo]

Yes he will eat but only if the food goes right by him he is just hanging out in the bottom front corner of the tank. It almost looks like he rubbed up against the rocks

 

[bllfish]

They are pretty tough fish. I had one and had to return him because he tormented all the other fish so much. I would give it some time. Just make sure he keeps eating. It is good you can see him.

 

[Poorcollegereef]

i just posted this on your other thread:


Hi, I will try to help but I have a horrible track history with 6-lines, it took 4 attempts before I got a healthy one... it wasnt my fault! stupid shippers with no heat pack in february...

As for your wrasse, I have never seen the red area in a healthy 6-line, but that is a worry-some area for me. From the picture his scales appear to pucker and has white spots so it lookes like he has an internal infection with ick, but are the results of a weakened immune system and stress. The hawk might be a factor adding to it but it isnt the main cause. You might have to worry about the 6-line's illness speading in your tank and hurting the other fish. You need to ask for treatment for an internal infection and there are lots of ick/external illness threads which will help.

If the wrasse is eating well and you feed with high quality meaty foods he might have a chance but when/if he stops eating have the net near by

 

[Tremolo]

I am feeding frozen mysid shrimps along with some flake food I just got home from work and I cant find him...he is hiding in the rock somewhere. Hopefully he will come out when the lights come back on in the morning when I feed the tank. I don't think he has ick he doesn't have an spots on him just a nasty looking scrape across his one side.

 

[Tremolo]

well the six line didn't make it I found what was left of him in the sand. I wonder what was eating him after he died..may the nassarius snails...anyways tested ammonia and it was still 0 and im mixing up 5 gallons of water right now then I will wait an hour or so and see what all my water parameters are. This is my first fish loss I have had the tank setup since June. Everything else in the tank looks healthy and eating fine.

 

[bllfish]

Sorry about your loss Tremolo