Was my Goby trying to tell me something?

[jjencek]

Several weeks ago my Mandarin Goby started to swim into the water current from my pump outlet. It was fun to watch and it looked like he was just playing. He would swim into it and take a ride down the tank and then kept repeating it.

Two days ago I found him not feeling well. He was not swimming much, breathing fast and developed what looked like slime on his gill. He was gone next day.

Was the "playing in the stream" a sign he was having problems and I missed it?

 

[Jdub968]

Several weeks ago my Mandarin Goby started to swim into the water current from my pump outlet. It was fun to watch and it looked like he was just playing. He would swim into it and take a ride down the tank and then kept repeating it.

Two days ago I found him not feeling well. He was not swimming much, breathing fast and developed what looked like slime on his gill. He was gone next day.

Was the "playing in the stream" a sign he was having problems and I missed it?

I hate to say it my friend but you missed a tale tale sign of velvet. Sorry for your lose but let's focus on the tank for
Now. Do you have other fish in this tank? Are they breathing heavy scratching flashing clamped fins or very small white dots?

 

[jjencek]

I hate to say it my friend but you missed a tale tale sign of velvet. Sorry for your lose but let's focus on the tank for
Now. Do you have other fish in this tank? Are they breathing heavy scratching flashing clamped fins or very small white dots?

Ouch! Yes, there are 5 other fishes in there ....

2 clowns
2 cardinals
1 flame angel

The angel was the last one added to the tank 11 months ago. Only corals and other non-fish added since then.

I don't see other fish showing stress or signs. But obviously after missing the Goby, I might not be the best in noticing the signs.

 

[Jdub968]

Anything wet that goes into your tank must be quarantined, corals snails rock sand
Etc cannot host ick or velvet but these parasites can encyst on the hard surfaces of this stuff and be introduced into a tank this way. The best method to avoid this is a 76 day qt in a tank that does not have fish in it that way the parasites die off.
There are other parasites that can cause fish to swim into water flow such as ick or even flukes, it is just very common with velvet. Here’s my suggestion I would try to bet one of your fish and do a fw dip on it to check for flukes if there present you can dose prazipro to you dt, if there not present I would watch your fish for the wigs I mentioned and if you see them I would catch all of them put them in qt and treat with copper or cp, your dt will have to remain fallow for 76 days to kill ick 6 weeks for velvet and flukes

 

[jjencek]

Ok, will do.

What do flukes look like when seen in the FW dip? If you don't have a quick image - I will find it somewhere.

Thanks.

 

[Jdub968]

https://youtu.be/Po_dvEr5DL0

 

[jjencek]

Good video - thank you.