Help! Sick fish!!

christyf5 · #1 03-12-2010, 03:23 AM

Don't have a sandbed. I feed frozen mysis and frozen spirulina brine shrimp as well as nori.

naesco · #2 03-12-2010, 03:33 AM

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Originally Posted by christyf5

Don't have a sandbed. I feed frozen mysis and frozen spirulina brine shrimp as well as nori.

If it is not a serious bladder problem which is difficult to cure it may be one of the following.

If you are feeding dry food, like nori without first wetting it, it may cause the fish to be bound. You can correct the problem by feeding her some peas and she will poop the dry stuff out.

Every night this wrasse and many others go to bed. It snuggles itself deep in the protective fine sand bed to sleep and protect itself if threatened during the day. By +doing this funky aim at the bottom glass and shimmy its mouth along the bottom glass thing+, he may be trying to tell you something.
I hope she recovers.

Borderjumper · #3 03-12-2010, 03:41 AM

It may have injured itself trying to bury into the sandbed that isnt there.

Both of my pencil wrasses killed themselves trying to bury .. when there was nothing to bury in.

christyf5 · #4 03-12-2010, 03:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Borderjumper

It may have injured itself trying to bury into the sandbed that isnt there.

Both of my pencil wrasses killed themselves trying to bury .. when there was nothing to bury in.

If he did its on the inside, theres no damage on the outside for the most part. He did come with a small abrasion on his side but it looks to be healing to me.

naesco · #5 03-12-2010, 03:45 AM

Unless it is too late you can slowly pour two inches of fine sand in a say one square foot area near where she is hiding. If she is healthy enough she will dive in. Good Luck

christyf5 · #6 03-12-2010, 03:48 AM

Too late tonight but I can get some tomorrow. Hopefully he's still ok tomorrow. He seems sort of "peppy" this evening. Its as if nothing was wrong except for the crappy steering and occasional "rest" periods

naesco · #7 03-12-2010, 03:52 AM

BTW, Christy, the regal tang is the only tang that is primarily a meat eater. Although they will eat algae their diet is meaty foods so feed the meaty foods first than add the nori.

christyf5 · #8 03-12-2010, 03:54 AM

I usually feed twice a day. Two rounds of mysis with the nori in between. Yeah I know he doesn't really need the nori but he just gets so excited when he sees me putting it on the clip

If I don't give him the two rounds of mysis he gets VERY cranky (aggressive to the other fish and likes to knock my frags over and just lately, nipping clam mantles . He is a bit of an arse.

naesco · #9 03-12-2010, 04:09 AM

Nipping on clam mantles, eh. You are not feeding him enough, ha ha.

christyf5 · #10 03-12-2010, 03:42 AM

This fish has never eaten nori, the only fish that eats it is the regal tang. He chows it down before any of the other fish even know it is in the tank. I just like watching him eat it

Yeah I was wondering if maybe the shimmy was looking for a sandbed. I'm wondering if maybe I need to invest in some biopellets and add some sand in the back forty for him.

I've had two other melanurus wrasses over the years, one acclimated to no sandbed, the other came from a tank with a sandbed to my bare bottom one with no problems at all.

Well here's hoping its not his swim bladder. That would certainly suck