ok so heres the scoop i have a 220 reef that had been ick free more almost a yr. i only had a flame angel and a multicolor wrasse in the tank for over a yr then i decided to add a flame wrasse that had been a friends for about 8 months and was in perfect health. so I had to catch the multicolor and i put him in a "jail" that i had built for over a week as they are both wrasses and my multicolor was pretty aggressive and much bigger. after about a week i decided the flame had had enough time to find hiding places and know his way around the tank. but i guess it didnt matter as about a half hour after the wrasse was let go my flame was dead on the sandbed like he had a heart attack or something crazy (this had been heard of before also there were no marks on the flames body ) and to say the least i was very upset, about a week later my multicolor started hiding alot and then i saw him he had a huge stumach and wouldnt swim around much, now i havnt exactly figured out why this ahd happened but i was told that he might of over eaten to the point of exploding his stomach out, or he had some kind of internal virus thing. so after a little over a week of not seeing my multicolor anymore i figured he was dead and my clean up crew had taken care of the carcasse before i had seen it. so i decided to take a plung and i ordered a pair of flame wrasses offline. they came in and they were beautiful and the supplier the person i ordered my fish from copper all their fish and quartine them to a point and also the person i ordered form coppers all his tanks and runs uv. so i decided i would just acclimate these fish and place them into the display tank. I also ordered 4 dispar anthias too as they were a steal of a deal. now all fish came great. after a long 5 hour acclimation they were all let free into their new permanent homes. after a few days one of the dispars had died it was the one that was most likely turnin into a male, but anyways he had been acting wierd (like breathing heavy and swimming in the highest currents) since he was let go in the tank. also the fourth dispar just disapeared never to been seen of again. but the first is out all the time and is alrdy changing into a male ( this guy might of killed off the other changing male to pruve dominence ) and the second is a female is just a lil skittish still but eating and in great health. no spots on any of the fish during all this time. now to get to the point my female flame scratched herself once the third day in thought nothing of it, now i havnt seen any other scratching by her, but now i have seen the male jerk a lil bit and then scratch the one side of his head ( I saw this tonght mostly but seen it once before ) now there are no spots on any of the fish so i dont think it is ICK as there are no spots on any of the fish, but i wonder is it possible that it could be a diff kind of parasite???? Also it has been almsot 2 weeks since they have been added to the tank, dont you think if there was going to be an ick outbreak it would of alrdy had happened? so let me know what you all think, sry bout the long post thanks in advance.
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