Rpc07 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 I think my wrasse has passed away despite eating frozen blood worms soaked in garlic guard everyday and showing no signs of stress, injury or sickness. The question I have is since these fish are sand dwellers I'd assume he passed away under the sand where the clean up crew will most likely not get to him. If I can't find him in the sand is it a huge issue? The tank is around 55 gallons total volume. I really hope this isn't the case but he wasn't looking so good yesterday morning ( half buried in the sand and and breathing heavy) and that was the last time I saw him, all the other fish are acting normal and are not showing any signs of stress. Any help is appreciated. Link to comment
Sal10104 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 i mean, just watch your params. he might come back up for all we know. I would think that would cause a crash if you dug up your whole sand bed trying to find him. you might need to do a few larger water changes if your ammonia or nitrates go up. Link to comment
Rpc07 Posted July 5, 2016 Author Share Posted July 5, 2016 I'll keep an eye on everything, I'll start checking ammonia everyday for the next week or two I would imagine I would see a spike in that time if he has passed. Hopefully he turns back up. Link to comment
Dylan.N Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Heavy breathing might mean he was suffocating - not enough oxygen in the water. Link to comment
Rpc07 Posted July 5, 2016 Author Share Posted July 5, 2016 Heavy breathing might mean he was suffocating - not enough oxygen in the water. None of the other fish are breathing heavy. Between the overflow, skimmer, return nozzle being half out of the water and another power head aimed at the surface I should have enough oxygen exchange right? Link to comment
Sal10104 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 None of the other fish are breathing heavy. Between the overflow, skimmer, return nozzle being half out of the water and another power head aimed at the surface I should have enough oxygen exchange right? I like it if I can't clearly see my corals and fish from the surface as my amount of agitation. I'm running about 2000 gph at the surface In my 75 Link to comment
Rpc07 Posted July 5, 2016 Author Share Posted July 5, 2016 I like it if I can't clearly see my corals and fish from the surface as my amount of agitation. I'm running about 2000 gph at the surface In my 75 Yeah my tank is a blur from the top can't see anything clear. Link to comment
Rpc07 Posted July 7, 2016 Author Share Posted July 7, 2016 Sadly my loepard did not make it. Came home from work and he was half sticking out of the sand. I was able to remove him from the tank. Link to comment
mystersyster Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Very sorry to hear. It happens in this hobby, especially with fish we take out of the ocean. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be many, if any wrasses that are captive bread. =[ Link to comment
Rpc07 Posted July 7, 2016 Author Share Posted July 7, 2016 I really had high hopes for this guy since all I read was that they were picky eaters and mine was eating frozen blood worms like a champ. Link to comment
Polarcollision Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 My tailspot blenny died and was never found. It's a smaller fish than your wrasse but in 24 gallons instead of 55 so it seems like the concentrations of nutrients would be similar. The tank didn't really see any changes. Probably because the cleanup crew did their job well and nothing decomposed in the water. It was more like a giant feeding. Key to getting a healthy leopard is to check their mouths before purchase. I made my LFS feed it and put 1" of sand in the bottom the transport-home bag. Link to comment
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