ORA Mandarin, 1/2 inch or so. Bought a pair about 2 months ago, treated both in copper for 14 days at 2.0ppm, with hanna checker.
One has a strong appetite, looking healthy and fat. Feeding daily hatched artemia, frozen cyclopods, and PE Calanus. The other (now sick) one is quite thin. I see it nipping, but not gaining weight.
Moved them both to my sump, 90gal heavily stocked FOWLR tank, 1.021sg, 30ppm nitrites, 1 year old tank, to augment diet with live pods. They've been there about 3 weeks. All fish have been through 2.5ppm 30 day copper, except these mandarins, due to sensitivity.
Last week i went to clean my felt filter sock. Plop! Out comes the thin mandarin. I was rubbing the sock under warm tap water to clean it. I dont think i crushed it nor was it in tap long but it was certainly stressful. I may have damaged the slime coat, likely. Back in the tank, acting fine 5 minutes later.
2 days ago i noticed a haze on the thin one, but assumed it was the usual "sleeping discoloration" they seem to get. But then its not swimming right either, and lethargic. Thought it was dead yesterday, but a turkey baster probe brought it to action.
Today now unmistakably white around head. Having trouble swimming correctly, tail is lifting as if it wants to float away.
Fearing the worst, 3 minutes FW dip, now in Ruby Reef Rally 1 gallon QT, in case its fungal or bacterial.
It looks like velvet but i feel like it would be dead already if it was velvet. Fins look torn up, not sure if from the other mandarin but they will be seperated from now on. Never observed fighting. Could be from the filter sock ordeal but doubtful.
Took a video (link below) after the FW dip. Breathing rate at start if video, I prompted it to move at 20 second mark, 46 seconds you can see the fins are not great looking, 1:40 minutes mark i changed the lighting, you can better see the skin affliction and swimming pattern. Sorry its shaky, i was trying to keep focus and lighting.
One has a strong appetite, looking healthy and fat. Feeding daily hatched artemia, frozen cyclopods, and PE Calanus. The other (now sick) one is quite thin. I see it nipping, but not gaining weight.
Moved them both to my sump, 90gal heavily stocked FOWLR tank, 1.021sg, 30ppm nitrites, 1 year old tank, to augment diet with live pods. They've been there about 3 weeks. All fish have been through 2.5ppm 30 day copper, except these mandarins, due to sensitivity.
Last week i went to clean my felt filter sock. Plop! Out comes the thin mandarin. I was rubbing the sock under warm tap water to clean it. I dont think i crushed it nor was it in tap long but it was certainly stressful. I may have damaged the slime coat, likely. Back in the tank, acting fine 5 minutes later.
2 days ago i noticed a haze on the thin one, but assumed it was the usual "sleeping discoloration" they seem to get. But then its not swimming right either, and lethargic. Thought it was dead yesterday, but a turkey baster probe brought it to action.
Today now unmistakably white around head. Having trouble swimming correctly, tail is lifting as if it wants to float away.
Fearing the worst, 3 minutes FW dip, now in Ruby Reef Rally 1 gallon QT, in case its fungal or bacterial.
It looks like velvet but i feel like it would be dead already if it was velvet. Fins look torn up, not sure if from the other mandarin but they will be seperated from now on. Never observed fighting. Could be from the filter sock ordeal but doubtful.
Took a video (link below) after the FW dip. Breathing rate at start if video, I prompted it to move at 20 second mark, 46 seconds you can see the fins are not great looking, 1:40 minutes mark i changed the lighting, you can better see the skin affliction and swimming pattern. Sorry its shaky, i was trying to keep focus and lighting.
