easyrider Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Update ... still losing fish. Ended up losing the trigger and lionfish. Did a 50% water change and checked all my levels( before the waterchange) and everything was fine. So i added 4 green chromis and a damsel on sunday. Today 2 chromis are dead and the damsel is on the way. I don't know what to do ( the crabs are still kickin'). could it maybe be some frozen food? should i do a 100% water change ? please help this is very frustrating..... Harley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlkWolfe Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Same symptoms as before? Heavy breathing? listless? Signs of external parasites? If you just lost fish, its usually a bad idea to just throw more in when you dont know what the first ones died of. Possibly a bacterial infection, if not something alot nastier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyrider Posted March 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 (edited) Thanx Josh....... 1. heavy breathing; yes. Right before they died usually. 2. parasites ; i think so. I have a couple pics of the trigger on a previous thread. glazed eyes, and a white sort of spotty haze covering the body. also wicked fin rot. Not sure what you mean by listless. kindin leanin' towards something bad; this is a new one for me. As far as the new fish are concerned just through in cheap chromis to see it was a major prob, or if it was isolated to the trigger and lion. the mystery continues .......... Edited March 23, 2006 by easyrider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murminator Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 hmmm....sounds familar? was the water cloudy?? http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23378 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyrider Posted March 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 It's a possibility Murm. but I only did my usual 25% water changes monthly prior to my fish deaths. Also did not notice any cloudiness. Thanx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlkWolfe Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 If its just the external symptoms, move them to a hospital tank (bare bottom, few pieces of pvc, 20g or so to keep costs of meds down). Double doses of Maracyn-2 for 4-5 days, no feedings, no water changes. Online ordering is cheaper than local. I had something very similar run through my QT tanks a couple weeks ago after bringing in half a dozen fish in from between vancouver and calgary. Only thing to survive was a dragon wrasse and that was after a formalin dip and maracyn-2 following. But if the infection is bad enough in the gills the formalin will kill them just as well. If that doesnt work, let the tank sit empty for a month or more, big water change, and try again. Im not too well versed with marine illness, so i hope somebody else would chime in with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyrider Posted March 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 it looks like Maracyn will kill inverts??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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