Hey Guys,
I've got a 4" Blue Eye Tang that has just recently started breathing really fast. I've had him for about a month and a half and he's been perfectly fine up until yesterday. He's swimming fine, eating good and not really showing any other symptoms of disease beside the breathing. He's always been a little bit shy and a lite sleeper. In the past few weeks he's been getting less shy, sleeping more and is now finally coming up to the glass so I can check him out. I've looked for any sign's of Ick or parasites and I really don't see anything on him. He looks perfectly healthy. His colors are good, fins look good and eyes aren't cloudy. I put a rock in the tank daily that in wrapped in brown algae and he will hang out around it nearly all day pecking at it with my Naso and Lawnmower blenny. I do not have a quarantine tank so none of my livestock is quarantined before introduced into the tank. He was the last fish we've put into the tank and none of the other fish have been sick or died in over 3 months.
Does anyone have any advice? I'm hoping I can do something for him now before it get worse!
Thanks!!
I've got a 4" Blue Eye Tang that has just recently started breathing really fast. I've had him for about a month and a half and he's been perfectly fine up until yesterday. He's swimming fine, eating good and not really showing any other symptoms of disease beside the breathing. He's always been a little bit shy and a lite sleeper. In the past few weeks he's been getting less shy, sleeping more and is now finally coming up to the glass so I can check him out. I've looked for any sign's of Ick or parasites and I really don't see anything on him. He looks perfectly healthy. His colors are good, fins look good and eyes aren't cloudy. I put a rock in the tank daily that in wrapped in brown algae and he will hang out around it nearly all day pecking at it with my Naso and Lawnmower blenny. I do not have a quarantine tank so none of my livestock is quarantined before introduced into the tank. He was the last fish we've put into the tank and none of the other fish have been sick or died in over 3 months.
Does anyone have any advice? I'm hoping I can do something for him now before it get worse!
Thanks!!