Hello All
I have been in the hobby for a very long time and I have never seen something this crazy this entire time. so buckle up and get ready
2 weeks ago, I had my blue hippo tang about 5in jump from my 125 because some left over of nori at night was left in the overflow. it managed to jump and land perfectly in my overflow box. now when I say perfect I mean the face only was covered with water. you know how when scientists catch sharks and they let water flow through its mouth out of the gills that are exactly what happened. water from the tank was flowing into the gills of the blue hippo. no time on how long it was out for but in the morning when I couldn't find it I finally looked into the overflow and somehow had no clue how in the world it happened the fish was still alive while the whole body was dried up except the face and the fish was still alive. now took the fish out and I put it into my refugium since the refugium I made was pretty big and I wanted to see how it would do! after 4 hours the fish seemed to do amazing. I did see the body start to remove the oxygen out of the body and replace it with water so bubbles all over the body were created. ate perfectly fine and was doing great for a few days. after a few days, hell rose. it went from coming out to only coming out for food to never coming out and shortly dying after. but here's the story. my clarkiis the male passed away about a week after introducing the blue hippo into the tank, then the blue hippo, then my flame angel, and then my wrasse, and now it's my naso tang. these fish are large. they are dying one by one. the symptoms I am seeing are the fish are out of the blue not eating, start to shake and act weird, hide more, and most importantly they are developing either white spots, a white slim coat, or cloudy eyes might even be both. Tested my water since the fish do breathe heavily before dying as well. I wanted to make sure my water was okay as well. everything was fine nitrates at 15, ammonia undetectable 0 nitrates 0 pH 8.3 phosphates at 0.05 I mean I am so confused. So I started a theory. Did the blue hippo introduce anything when I added it back into the tank because that's when I started losing fish? the fish takes about 4 days to a week then they drop dead. My naso I see hanging out near the wave maker which indicates it needs more oxygen the tank is well-oxygenated but I put up more flow for the fish. The naso I seemed to be able to feed today which I was happy about but the naso has white spots on the fins and a cloudy eye almost like it's about to pop. Could it be an internal disease? could it be bacteria related to gram point of sale and gram neg I don't have stains or a microscope but I could test if really needed. I think since the blue hippo was out for such a long time maybe the fish introduced something. all fish were quarantined and had for a long time and nothing new was introduced either so no way for parasites to come in other than the blue hippo jumping into the overflow. it did not touch the ground or anything. Just super confused. I need help and I need ideas of thoughts as I am confused. what do you think? the blue hippo when passed away the body towards the belly turned white and I hope it's not urenima but the other fish no white or such observations. Please help. I have a naso tang left and two cardinals. corals and anemone are doing fine.
I have been in the hobby for a very long time and I have never seen something this crazy this entire time. so buckle up and get ready
2 weeks ago, I had my blue hippo tang about 5in jump from my 125 because some left over of nori at night was left in the overflow. it managed to jump and land perfectly in my overflow box. now when I say perfect I mean the face only was covered with water. you know how when scientists catch sharks and they let water flow through its mouth out of the gills that are exactly what happened. water from the tank was flowing into the gills of the blue hippo. no time on how long it was out for but in the morning when I couldn't find it I finally looked into the overflow and somehow had no clue how in the world it happened the fish was still alive while the whole body was dried up except the face and the fish was still alive. now took the fish out and I put it into my refugium since the refugium I made was pretty big and I wanted to see how it would do! after 4 hours the fish seemed to do amazing. I did see the body start to remove the oxygen out of the body and replace it with water so bubbles all over the body were created. ate perfectly fine and was doing great for a few days. after a few days, hell rose. it went from coming out to only coming out for food to never coming out and shortly dying after. but here's the story. my clarkiis the male passed away about a week after introducing the blue hippo into the tank, then the blue hippo, then my flame angel, and then my wrasse, and now it's my naso tang. these fish are large. they are dying one by one. the symptoms I am seeing are the fish are out of the blue not eating, start to shake and act weird, hide more, and most importantly they are developing either white spots, a white slim coat, or cloudy eyes might even be both. Tested my water since the fish do breathe heavily before dying as well. I wanted to make sure my water was okay as well. everything was fine nitrates at 15, ammonia undetectable 0 nitrates 0 pH 8.3 phosphates at 0.05 I mean I am so confused. So I started a theory. Did the blue hippo introduce anything when I added it back into the tank because that's when I started losing fish? the fish takes about 4 days to a week then they drop dead. My naso I see hanging out near the wave maker which indicates it needs more oxygen the tank is well-oxygenated but I put up more flow for the fish. The naso I seemed to be able to feed today which I was happy about but the naso has white spots on the fins and a cloudy eye almost like it's about to pop. Could it be an internal disease? could it be bacteria related to gram point of sale and gram neg I don't have stains or a microscope but I could test if really needed. I think since the blue hippo was out for such a long time maybe the fish introduced something. all fish were quarantined and had for a long time and nothing new was introduced either so no way for parasites to come in other than the blue hippo jumping into the overflow. it did not touch the ground or anything. Just super confused. I need help and I need ideas of thoughts as I am confused. what do you think? the blue hippo when passed away the body towards the belly turned white and I hope it's not urenima but the other fish no white or such observations. Please help. I have a naso tang left and two cardinals. corals and anemone are doing fine.