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03-01-2006, 08:12 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Denver, CO,Colorado
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 |  Help! Angel is going to pop
My fire fish goby died (well actually disappeared) a couple days ago, I have a couple of mushrooms that are turning white and not opening up like they used to and now tonight I find my Angel fish (Coral Beauty) with one eye that looks like it's in a bubble and is going to pop out or just pop - looks nasty. Water parameters seem OK - SG 1.023, Nitrites = 0, Nitrates = 20 ppm (which is not optimal but shouldn't be causing this). I recently added a green leather - is it possible this introduced something into the tank? Any thoughts on what might be wrong with the Angel and what I should do?
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55 gal glass tank, 2 power heads, wet/dry filter, protein skimmer, 50 lbs live rock, pair of tomato clowns, 1 royal gramma, 1 coral beauty angel, 1 six line wrasse, 1 peppermint shrimp, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp, 12 assorted snails (astrea/turbo), 15 assorted hermit crabs, green bubble tip anemone, red mushrooms, yellow polyps, 1 green leather, green star polyps, yellow toadstool | 
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03-01-2006, 08:45 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
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Might be some kind of parasitic infection. If this is a reef tank, QT the angel and treat there, as the meds might cause harm to corals. In my tank, corals come first, I rather let a fish die than dose anything that might endanger my corals.
Try these links: http://www.fishjunkies.com/Disorders...le_disease.php http://www.reefs.org/library/article...ki_phipps.html
It might also be pop eye, although I have not experienced this disease in marine fish.
How much light do you have in the tank? They might be dying off due to lack of light. When they turn pale, they are pretty much dying, bleaching. It can also be bad water quality.
I'm sorry, but 20ppm is unacceptable in a reef tank. If you ask a lot of pros on here, they will tell you they keep the 'trates at 0ppm. Anything above 0ppm is a no no in my book. Try lowering the nitrates by adding media and turning up the skimmer to remove organics and proteins in the water. Water change would also be something to consider. When in doubt, do a change!  Also, are you testing? How are the phosphates looking?
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30g reef tank, CPR CY192 filter w/ DIY plumb running Rio 17HF return, Coralife 3x 9w UV Sterilizer, 3 24W T5-Helios 10K Daylights/3 24W T5-Helios Blue lights, 2 Logysis blue meteor light strobes (moonlights/24 Blue LEDs).
Tiger tail cuke, asst. snails/hermits, asst. feathers, rainbow acan,zoos,shrooms,bubble,galaxea, asst. shrimp, 2 ocellaris,mandarin,zebrasoma xanthurum,pink-spot watchman,red-striped pistol.
Last edited by rickzter : 03-01-2006 at 08:54 PM.
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03-01-2006, 08:52 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
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Hmm well...the fire fish...im guessing is just hiding somtimes my guy hides for weeks before i see him...but if there is a bug going around...well then he could have died...sorry _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1x 54W Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x54w Super Actinic Blue 03 T5 HO Flourescent
1x 54W 12000K Aquablue Special T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
100 lbs Fiji Live Rock
65 lbs Live sand
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03-04-2006, 07:29 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: St. Paul/Woodbury, Minnesota Age: 49
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Put your angel in a Qt tank and treat with an antiobiotic like sulfa or penicillin. I had a fish that had popeye disease and I was able to save it with triple sulfa. If you act fast you can save its eye too if its not too damaged. _________ 75g reef with Nova Extreme 8 bulb HO T-5 lighting, refuge, Remora skimmer, DSB, Seio powerheads, Acro's, LPS corals, assorted zoo's & mushrooms, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown, Blue Cleaner Goby , Cleaner, Fire and Sexy Shrimp, Coco Worm, T.Crocea Clam, Derasa Clam
120g FOWLR, 260w Orbit power compact lights, Remora Pro skimmer, 30g DIY Sump/Refuge, DSB,Seio Power heads, Powder Blue Tang, Purple Tang, Flag Fin Angel, False Eye Puffer, Copperbanded Butterfly and a Moorish Idol  | |
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03-27-2006, 12:29 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2006
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I have a coral beauty that had the same eye problem. I quarantined him and treated him with "PraziPro" by aquarium solutions and it worked great and have had no more problems. I don't know how true it is but I was told by someone that because the coral beauty picks at rocks it also picks up bacteria and other stuff from the rock. Whatever the cause, that stuff worked really well. Good luck. | |
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