Kruss7
Active Member
Hi everyone,
4 days ago, I bought six fish from my local fish store: a foxface, Midas blenny, longnose hawk, yellow tang, orchid dottyback, and bangaii cardinal. All of them were eating well at the store. When I got home, I added them to my two quarantine tanks, and they all ate on the first day (medicated food).
However, I noticed something strange with the foxface—it was kind of twitching. The next morning, when I went to feed them, the only fish that ate was the longnose hawk (who no longer eats). The rest of the fish had non-active eyes, stared blankly, and were breathing heavily. Both tanks are treated with full copper (2.25 ppm) and have a salinity of 1.026. The water is made with RODI.
By the evening of the second day, the yellow tang was gulping for air, breathing heavily, had no activity in the eyes, and had trouble swimming (gulping at the surface just like ammonia, however, my ammonia tests came back negative, and all the water was fresh 3 days earlier when they were added, with bio media and a 30% water change that afternoon). The yellow tang in tank 1 died by morning. The next day in tank 2, I started seeing similar symptoms in the cardinal, who died in a few hours. After seeing this, I conducted a formalin bath on the remaining fish. (No flukes in the bucket). The foxface then began swimming in the flow before becoming lethargic and also passing overnight last night.
There are no visible signs of velvet, uronema, or other diseases on the living or dead fish.
I am unsure what to do with the remaining fish. I suspect velvet in the gills?
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
4 days ago, I bought six fish from my local fish store: a foxface, Midas blenny, longnose hawk, yellow tang, orchid dottyback, and bangaii cardinal. All of them were eating well at the store. When I got home, I added them to my two quarantine tanks, and they all ate on the first day (medicated food).
However, I noticed something strange with the foxface—it was kind of twitching. The next morning, when I went to feed them, the only fish that ate was the longnose hawk (who no longer eats). The rest of the fish had non-active eyes, stared blankly, and were breathing heavily. Both tanks are treated with full copper (2.25 ppm) and have a salinity of 1.026. The water is made with RODI.
By the evening of the second day, the yellow tang was gulping for air, breathing heavily, had no activity in the eyes, and had trouble swimming (gulping at the surface just like ammonia, however, my ammonia tests came back negative, and all the water was fresh 3 days earlier when they were added, with bio media and a 30% water change that afternoon). The yellow tang in tank 1 died by morning. The next day in tank 2, I started seeing similar symptoms in the cardinal, who died in a few hours. After seeing this, I conducted a formalin bath on the remaining fish. (No flukes in the bucket). The foxface then began swimming in the flow before becoming lethargic and also passing overnight last night.
There are no visible signs of velvet, uronema, or other diseases on the living or dead fish.
I am unsure what to do with the remaining fish. I suspect velvet in the gills?
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
