Good morning all, I am seeking advice and possible diagnosis with two fish:
My yellow wrasse I've had for about 8 months or so, in this time I moved about 3 months back and lost a lot of sand in the move. I noticed what looked to appear him struggling to burrow due to its shallowness (about 1") so I clumped up sections where it is 2-3" deep. However about a few weeks after, I noticed he was swimming all kinds of weird, he would kind of hover and get thrown around by the wave maker, and even once, was stuck on the side of my nero. I put him in a fish trap box and noticed his right fin was a bit red near the joint, however a few days later and he looked fine afterwords so I released him back into the tank. I thought he just burrowed for a few days, but he was in fact living under my live rock where my pistol and goby reside. He now looks like he lost his colour a bit, as well as his scales? and as a result looks red on one side.
here is a video of him when I first noticed he was acting weird:
here is him right now:
Now my Goby I've had for over a year, the entire time living with his pistol shrimp under the same rock. He usually, but not always, peeks out during feeding. The past week or so I hadn't seen much of him. I lift up my rock during water change and find him with a huge white belly and something sticking out of it. I'm not sure if this is the bowel of the fish, or something foreign?
here is him under rock:
here is hum in net:
I'm not sure what to do with these two fish, or what the causes may be? I have 5 other fish that are doing fine and eating well. I'm making some RODI to set up a 13g tank I have in case they need to be quarantined, and if so, I'm wondering if I need to get sand for that tank or if PVC will be better? Since the wrasse sleeps in the sand.
If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thank you!
tank is:
55g display, 65g volume
.2 phos, .20 nitrate
0 amm/nitrite
8.4 alk, 8.2 ph
35 salinity, 77 degrees
has skimmer and sterilizer
My yellow wrasse I've had for about 8 months or so, in this time I moved about 3 months back and lost a lot of sand in the move. I noticed what looked to appear him struggling to burrow due to its shallowness (about 1") so I clumped up sections where it is 2-3" deep. However about a few weeks after, I noticed he was swimming all kinds of weird, he would kind of hover and get thrown around by the wave maker, and even once, was stuck on the side of my nero. I put him in a fish trap box and noticed his right fin was a bit red near the joint, however a few days later and he looked fine afterwords so I released him back into the tank. I thought he just burrowed for a few days, but he was in fact living under my live rock where my pistol and goby reside. He now looks like he lost his colour a bit, as well as his scales? and as a result looks red on one side.
here is a video of him when I first noticed he was acting weird:
here is him right now:
Now my Goby I've had for over a year, the entire time living with his pistol shrimp under the same rock. He usually, but not always, peeks out during feeding. The past week or so I hadn't seen much of him. I lift up my rock during water change and find him with a huge white belly and something sticking out of it. I'm not sure if this is the bowel of the fish, or something foreign?
here is him under rock:
here is hum in net:
I'm not sure what to do with these two fish, or what the causes may be? I have 5 other fish that are doing fine and eating well. I'm making some RODI to set up a 13g tank I have in case they need to be quarantined, and if so, I'm wondering if I need to get sand for that tank or if PVC will be better? Since the wrasse sleeps in the sand.
If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thank you!
tank is:
55g display, 65g volume
.2 phos, .20 nitrate
0 amm/nitrite
8.4 alk, 8.2 ph
35 salinity, 77 degrees
has skimmer and sterilizer
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