Tomini Tang breathing heavily

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Tomini tang has been at the bottom in a corner breathing heavily today and also was uninterested in eating. Otherwise he's upright and looking around, can't see any abnormalities on his body or anything like that. He ate last night like normal..I'm not sure if I'm panicking prematurely.

Tank parameters are the same that they've been for months so I'm not sure what might be causing a sudden change in behavior. Any thoughts? Thank you!

 

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Tomini tang has been at the bottom in a corner breathing heavily today and also was uninterested in eating. Otherwise he's upright and looking around, can't see any abnormalities on his body or anything like that. He ate last night like normal..I'm not sure if I'm panicking prematurely.

Tank parameters are the same that they've been for months so I'm not sure what might be causing a sudden change in behavior. Any thoughts? Thank you!

Could be velvet. Better get him to a QT and treat with cupermine.

 

[Dmorty217]

+1^ QT and at the very least para guard, since it treats a wide range of issues. If it is velvet it's probably already too late

 

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Ok. I'm slightly new to this. Tank has been up 5 months and nothing new has been added to the aquarium since then. Is velvet something that could spontaneously happen with no changes at all?

 

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There's got to be some change. Salinity, temp, water chemistry, fish size, bio load, filtration efficiency.

 

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The only thing that's changed over the months is a slow growth of purple and flat green algae on the rocks, a small amount of fuzzy green grew last week. Other than that everything has been the same and the fish get along fine (2 clowns, melanurus wrasse and the tomini tang). Could something have been in the frozen food? That's the only thing introduced into the tank (also nori).

 

[ca1ore]

I'll offer the singularly unhelpful observation that sometimes fish die and it is not apparent why. If you have added nothing wet (other than food) in 5 months then while it is possible there is a parasite in its gills, seems unlikely to me. Fish will almost certainly die if you do nothing, so removing to a HT and trying something like para guard or Nitrofuracin green powder would seem prudent.

 

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Unfortunately he died this morning before I got a chance to do anything. I'm concerned because he only showed symptoms for about 10 hours..so far the other fish (2 clowns, 1 melanurus wrasse) seem normal.