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EllaBrooks415

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All of a sudden overnight there has been a fish apocopypse! I woke up to my falco hawk dead, and then hours later my clownfish started acting very strang and my Picasso triggerfish was turning red which I know is skin burning.

All of my other fish are breathing heavily, these include lawnmower blenny, valentini puffer, spotted puffer, lunare wrasse.

However my scooter blenny and matted filefish are acting totally fine, breathing a little heavy.

I also have a chocolate chip statfish that is fenced off by a screen and some of his chips fell off and are not white but he seems fine.

All of my water tests have come back normal
-Ph
-ammonia
-nitrate
-nitrite
-salinity

They also constantly itch themselves, suspecting flukes.

Help please!
 
seecrabrun

seecrabrun

Active Member
Is your equipment working correctly? Check for stray voltage.

Do a retest of the parameters just to make sure and post the numbers.

Any coral in the tank? Anemones? Did any of them die?
 
flower

flower

Well-Known Member
EllaBrooks415 said:
All of a sudden overnight there has been a fish apocopypse! I woke up to my falco hawk dead, and then hours later my clownfish started acting very strang and my Picasso triggerfish was turning red which I know is skin burning.

All of my other fish are breathing heavily, these include lawnmower blenny, valentini puffer, spotted puffer, lunare wrasse.

However my scooter blenny and matted filefish are acting totally fine, breathing a little heavy.

I also have a chocolate chip statfish that is fenced off by a screen and some of his chips fell off and are not white but he seems fine.

All of my water tests have come back normal
-Ph
-ammonia
-nitrate
-nitrite
-salinity

They also constantly itch themselves, suspecting flukes.

Help please!
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Um...We can't help unless you tell us what the parameters are, and what they were the last time you checked. Telling us all is "back" to normal doesn't give us much to go on. At any rate...do an emergency water change. It always helps to dilute, and running carbon will help if it's a possible contaminate problem. I'm not familiar with flukes, but I thought you could see it if that was the case, like a dangling parasite or something. If your fish are diseased to the point of killing everything, there isn't much that can be done to save them. Neither flukes, nor ich would kill all of your fish overnight.
 
Bryce E

Bryce E

Active Member
Itching and breathing heavy sounds like they've got something.(Disease/parasite) In addition to listing your water parameters can you post pics of your fish?

And watch out for the puffers. If they die remove them quickly to avoid possible poisoning of the tank and make matters go from bad to worse.
 
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