Fish Breathing Rapidly

yzfr6

yzfr6

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I noticed yesterday my coral beauty is breathing kind of heavily, there are no visual signs of ich or white spots of fUngus on any of the other fish. I checked the water parameters and everything checked out fine.
This happened a 3 months ago with threadfin butterfly, it was beathing heavily a couple of days and then it died. I just assumed that it was a closed case with that particilar fish and since it was a butterfly species I didnt expect it to live to long, the only reason i had it was a stupid friend bought it and couldnt get it too eat so I took it in.
All the other fish look and are breathing fine
90g
100lbs live Rock
6 camel shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp
1 spiny lobster
1 decorator crab
2 peppermint shrimp
2 sally lightfoots
40 or so snails
fish include
2 percs
1 coral beauty
1 bicolor blenny
1 scooter blenny
1 blue hippo tang
1 firefish
1 sailfin tang
all these fish have been in there about 6 months and seem okay except the CB
ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD GREATLY BE APPRECIATED
 
yzfr6

yzfr6

Member
I've already did a partial water change this morning so maybe I should do one more tommorrow evening? Its behavior hasn't been any different than before other than the heavy breathing, eats fine and is still quite active...
Beth do you think maybe I should put him into the quarantine and treat him with maracyn or some kind of parasite medication?
 
beth

beth

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Is he eating? When you say breathing hard, what do mean? Do you see rapid gilling? Mouth opening? Can you look in the gill area with a magnifying glass to see if gills are swollen, red?
 
yzfr6

yzfr6

Member
well he is breathing with his mouth open and his gill movement is more rapid. I tried to get a look into the gill area but this may sound stupid to you but I really dont know what color it should look since I've never really did that before but to me its a dark red.
I went ahead this mornining and moved him to the quarantine with a salinity of .012 and now he seems to be breathing alot easier and seems fine. But he is still not breathing as he normally use to so I am just keeping a close observation on him for now.
 
yzfr6

yzfr6

Member
Has gill flukes ever wipped out someones whole aquarium?
So far it hasnt got better, but luckily it hasnt got any worse either and the fish doesnt seem to be too stressed out over it, I will go ahead and lower the salinity to 1.009 gradually and see what happens...thanks
 
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