andrewkw
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Not a good couple of weeks. I lost my rhomboid due to jumping through a crack in my eggcrate. Today I found my blue sided struggling. I never positively ID'ed this guy so that's what I called him.
Best picture I could find with the rhomboid some time ago.
Anyway he was struggling. I actually noticed this yesterday but then he swam away into the rock work and figured everything was fine. Today he was upside down but still swimming. There was a couple of white starfish on him. I grabbed him with my hand and he put up a bit of a fight. I put him in a small 1gallon bucket with some tank water so I could examine him. within a couple of minutes he was dead! a few of those starfish came off and so did a couple of scales. Now I'm pretty sure the scales coming off were a result of the starfish.
He looks pretty beat up. He was the biggest of my fairy wrasses and other then the odd chase they never actually "fought" all are established long term, I've had no new additions fish wise for a while. Even corals I have not been adding much.
This is the first wrasse I've lost in 4 years of keeping them due to something other then jumping or a tank crash so I'm quite surprised to find him dead.
Any ideas? I guess I will take an iphone pic before he is flushed. Poor guy I measured him at just under 5" and very very thick.
Not a good week to be a fish swimming in my tank...
Anyway he was struggling. I actually noticed this yesterday but then he swam away into the rock work and figured everything was fine. Today he was upside down but still swimming. There was a couple of white starfish on him. I grabbed him with my hand and he put up a bit of a fight. I put him in a small 1gallon bucket with some tank water so I could examine him. within a couple of minutes he was dead! a few of those starfish came off and so did a couple of scales. Now I'm pretty sure the scales coming off were a result of the starfish.
He looks pretty beat up. He was the biggest of my fairy wrasses and other then the odd chase they never actually "fought" all are established long term, I've had no new additions fish wise for a while. Even corals I have not been adding much.
This is the first wrasse I've lost in 4 years of keeping them due to something other then jumping or a tank crash so I'm quite surprised to find him dead.
Any ideas? I guess I will take an iphone pic before he is flushed. Poor guy I measured him at just under 5" and very very thick.
Not a good week to be a fish swimming in my tank...
