The FedEx lady came this morning....

[Toddrtrex]

Well, the last clown is no longer with me. When I got home from work it wasn't looking too good. Breathing very hard, hard time swimming and it stomach almost looked bloated -- even though it wasn't eating.

Not sure if this picture shows what I am talking about with the stomach,

Around 2 AM I checked on the tank and this is what I saw,

 

[traveller7]

Sad ending
Sorry for your loss.

fwiw: Speed of turn leans brook, breathing rate leans brook, but I would not conclude it was brook based on the limited information provided.

I would assume the worst to protect your future inhabitants of the tank: Amyloo, Brook, Crypto, and internal parasites were potential causes. Let the tank be fishless for at least 30 days, 45+ would be better.

Hit the QT tank with bleach, rinse well, set it in the sun for a sunny day, then rinse it well again. Possibly even scrub it down with a reef safe sponge and a salt paste as added abrasive surface.

You can set it back up and prepare for replacements and QT them for 45-60 days while the display tank cycles through pathogens. Those sponge filters in your other tanks are your friends now.

Good luck.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Thanks a lot Scott. Is there any other information that I could give you to help your lean towards ( or away ) from Brook?

As "luck" would have it, not going to be able to do much with that tank for the 45-60 days anyways. With my back surgery coming up it will be easy to leave that tank alone.

But, I will do what you suggested with the QT tank, and still have those sponges in the sumps of my other tanks.

Thanks again for all your help -- hopefully I won't need it next time.

 

[traveller7]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13258531#post13258531 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Toddrtrex
Thanks a lot Scott. Is there any other information that I could give you to help your lean towards ( or away ) from Brook?

Not without a scraping and a good microscope.

Be safe, assume it was any or all of the suspects.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Ahh, okay. Don't think I have had a microscope since Xmas of '82.

I will be safe. And I have two other tanks to keep me busy, so it will be easy to let this one go fallow for the needed time frame.

And in a dorky circle of life moment, my Clarkii pair laid a huge batch of eggs the other night. The biggest and brightest batch that I have ever seen from them ( in 7+ years )

 

[traveller7]

Congrats on the Clark's. Got Rots?

 

[Toddrtrex]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13258696#post13258696 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by traveller7
Congrats on the Clark's. Got Rots?

Thanks.

Umm, no. I keep thinking that I will try to raise the fry one day, but so far that day has never come.

Think if my pink skunk pair ever decides to get their act together, that might motivate me enough to try.