Sad day for adidas fish, what happend can you help

Tarolisol · #1 03-24-2005, 03:44 AM

Well as most of you know i am/was babysitting adidas fish. Well heres the story, The fish came to me with a slight case of ick, which ran its course a couple times with no deaths or the fish stopping eating. Then after the ick was gone a couple weeks later the mayhem begins. The fish seemed to get sick. fast breathing and red gills. Then over the course of a day the fish would die. The fish looks fine exept for the red gills. The only fish that has managed to live is a hardy clown. Any ideas what it could be?

G1GY · #2 03-24-2005, 04:02 AM

No ideas, but I feel bad for you to be the unlucky sitter.

Sorry to hear that Sean.

snaggle · #3 03-24-2005, 04:17 AM

man that sux, sounds like a gill infection but I don not know what did you check the ammonia.

Brad

Tarolisol · #4 03-24-2005, 04:45 AM

I checked all elemnts and never got a reading for anything negative. I figure theres to much water for there to be a significant change in ammonia. Also none of my fish were effected. I though some sort of gill infection myself. Maybe the ick lowered there immune systems or somthing.

Reefhawk1 · #5 03-24-2005, 05:07 AM

Ick will actually kill your fish by attacking their gills. The white spots you see on fish is there "incubation stage" I guess you could call it that. I have read in the past that clownfish are immune to ich and that is what makes them a great beginner fish.

Stan

Tarolisol · #6 03-24-2005, 06:18 AM

Ive just never seen ick kill that quickly. Im not sure about immune becuase a panda clown did die from this outbreak.

Beverly · #7 03-24-2005, 12:48 PM

Sounds like ich probably killed them by attacking the gills, a very easy place to miss seeing if ich is there

The ich life cycle from:

http://www.petsforum.com/personal/tr...marineich.html

Quote:

The life cycle of C. irritans

C. irritans has a four stage life cycle, as shown in Figure 1. The parasitic stage (theronts) is the one that results in the appearance of white spots all over the fish. The theronts burrow under the skin where they feed on body fluids and tissue debris. When the theronts first infect the fish they are small but grow as they feed and so the white spots are initially small but get larger as they mature. Once mature, they drop off the fish and sink/swim down to the substrate where they encyst and begin to reproduce. In this stage they are called tomonts. After a number of days in which the tomonts divide, the cyst ruptures, releasing the tomites. Tomites may differentiate into theronts, the infective stage, which actively seek a host to reinfect.

Willow · #8 03-24-2005, 02:56 PM

judging by some of adidas comments in the past it sounds like they had ick long before you got them and this was inevitable unless treated with medication.

bulletsworld · #9 03-24-2005, 05:46 PM

Sean, sorry you had to be the sitter, please don’t feel bad. You tried your best and was very nice of you to help out. *HUGS*

Joel (Adidas) sorry to hear about your losses. Now their in the big ocean in the sky. *HUGS*

When I read this thread honestly it did not surprise me. The ich didn't kill them that quickly...knowing Joel (Adidas) was having problems with ich before you got them. I shook my head when I heard the fish were not going to be treated. I knew it was only a matter of time for the ich cycle to go through resulting in the demise of the fish. Not to mention the stress the fish would go through just leaving his tank to yours that would bring down the fish immunity. Wish I would have picked them up when I was up there as mentioned and I brought them back with me to treat them.

Clownfish are extremely hardy and although it has not died yet it does not mean that it won't still. Ich does attack the gill becoming unnoticed by the naked eye. Also if you had Joel's fish in your sump below your main tank... Don't be surprised when your fish get infected too, as the free swimming stages of the ich will be sucked in your main tank. EEK!

I may be coming to Calgary this weekend. If you need any help with QT, I would be more then willing to help out.

So sorry to hear about the losses

Tarolisol · #10 03-24-2005, 05:55 PM

Well not haveing an established QT tank as of yet so i couldnt treat them. Well ill keep an out on my fish, but i havent seen any signs of ick or anything to suggest they are infected.