Quarantine tank lost half my fish can anyone identify this

Goo · Feb 28, 2023

Stephen8169301 · Feb 28, 2023

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vetteguy53081 · Feb 28, 2023

Goo said:
Quarantine tank lost half my fish can anyone identify this

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In quarantine , it is important to monitor ammonia level with a reliable test kit. If you were treating tank- what were you treating with and how did you monitor treatment levels?
Its hard to assess a dead fish especially after two hours.
Prior to losses, di you notice heavy breathing or loss of appetite?
Loss of color>?

Often, with the hemorrhaging on the fish in pics, can be :

Asphyxiation
low oxygen
High ammonia and/or nitrate
high temperature
Overdosing
Bacterial issue
Parasitical

Jay Hemdal · Feb 28, 2023

Sorry, as with pirates, as the saying goes, dead fish tell no tales…. One can’t tell much from a dead fish photo. More important is the history: the symptoms seen prior to death, water quality reports, what fish species died versus what survived, how long you had the fish, etc. even then it is only possible to get to a root cause in about 80% of the cases.
Jay

Goo · Feb 28, 2023

I was just observing at the time no ammonia present what would be a high temperature it was really quick fine one day eating and next loss color and breathing heavy I lost a bicolor damsel and a 2 cardinals a goby I have two clowns doing good and 3 chromas doing good lunar wrasse also

Jay Hemdal · Feb 28, 2023

Goo said:
I was just observing at the time no ammonia present what would be a high temperature it was really quick fine one day eating and next loss color and breathing heavy I lost a bicolor damsel and a 2 cardinals a goby I have two clowns doing good and 3 chromas doing good lunar wrasse also

Rapid breathing is of course a sign of gill disease, either from water quality (unlikely) or some disease. The common disease is velvet, but that doesn’t leave survivors. It could be gill flukes.
Jay

Goo · Mar 1, 2023

Ive started copper anything else to add

Dbichler · Mar 1, 2023

did you have all 9 fish in qt. That’s most likely the problem if so.

Freenow54 · Mar 1, 2023

I don't know if there is a comparable disease to Malawi bloat in salt water fish, but look's identical to how I lost 14 cichlids. The root cause is the food. Just a stab in the dark

Goo · Mar 1, 2023

all the fish were in quarantine why was that the problem?

Cell · Mar 1, 2023

Most people don't have very large or multiple QT systems that can handle 9 fish at once.

Nemo&Friends · Mar 1, 2023

How big is QT tank and how old was it. If you added 9 fish at once in a small new QT, ammonia andlack of O2 will happen soon. I guess that this the cause. I would not QT more than 2 or 3 fish at a time.

Jay Hemdal · Mar 1, 2023

Goo said:
Ive started copper anything else to add

For now, with the information given, coppersafe or copper power would be indicated. However, if I had a complete timeline of when fish died, I might revise that to be flukes. Basically, rapid fish loss = copper, fish loss over days to weeks = praziquantel.
Jay

Goo · Mar 2, 2023

the qt is a 55 gallon with a biological filter removed from the display plus a canister filter. the timeline was for days put the other fish seem to be thriving. added copper power 4 days ago and started metroplex with focus in food? how long should the copper power stay in the tank and how long should i feed the medication?

Jay Hemdal · Mar 2, 2023

Goo said:
the qt is a 55 gallon with a biological filter removed from the display plus a canister filter. the timeline was for days put the other fish seem to be thriving. added copper power 4 days ago and started metroplex with focus in food? how long should the copper power stay in the tank and how long should i feed the medication?

You shouldn’t be feeding metroplex in food unless you are carefully measuring the dose - it needs to be 0.50% by weight (5000 ppm).
Copper can take 5 to 7 days to stop a protozoan infection.
Jay