Help, my fishes are not eating

[Denniszz]

My fishes are not eating recently, only blue tang eat. This morning my 2 clownfish died, and yesterday their bodies have white patches. Any food can recommend? I have flakes, pellets, and mysis. 

[Yono_Pranata]

Bro - may I know how old is ur tank? And have you fully cycle ur tank?

White patches in their bodies - most probably is due to ich. Ich may caused by stress and FYI tang is prone to have ich and this ich virus will spread to other fishes in the tank. The fish may be shocked or stress with the new environment and especially unstable water parameter (high ammonia, no2 or nitrate). The virus will be still in your tank for quite sometime.

You may enhance the pellet or mysis with a garlic guard to help improve the health of the fish and may help ich problem.

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[vincentwangz]

Hi Denniszz, sorry for ur loss. Do you acclimate your fish and monitor them before releasing it to swim around? I recommend an isolation box for you to monitor the fish's response to feeding before releasing them. A sudden introduction to a tank environment is actually stressful for a fish so do consider introducing them slowly. A fish dying overnight after seeing white patches may not be due to ich though, and suspect it is more from either suffocation (lack of oxygen either in the water or their gills being choked with slime) or stress.

As for food, I find Dr G's anti-parasitic caviar the best at treating fishes so far. It can be found at Ah Beng or Iwarna at Pasir Ris.

Sometimes fishes die also because of the transporting which took a toll on them. It is not recommended to buy a fish which just landed at the LFS as the handling of the fish is rather rough.

As Yono pointed out, do check the parameters of your water too. Ammonia poisoning is lethal and injures the gills of the fish.

Sofishticated Friend

[Denniszz]

Bro - may I know how old is ur tank? And have you fully cycle ur tank?

 

White patches in their bodies - most probably is due to ich. Ich may caused by stress and FYI tang is prone to have ich and this ich virus will spread to other fishes in the tank. The fish may be shocked or stress with the new environment and especially unstable water parameter (high ammonia, no2 or nitrate). The virus will be still in your tank for quite sometime.

 

You may enhance the pellet or mysis with a garlic guard to help improve the health of the fish and may help ich problem.

 

 

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Thanks! My tank is only 4 weeks old. Should have fully cycled the water... so far now the other fishes are ok. the current clownfish look fine except it keeps on swimming up and down... 

[Denniszz]

Hi Denniszz, sorry for ur loss. Do you acclimate your fish and monitor them before releasing it to swim around? I recommend an isolation box for you to monitor the fish's response to feeding before releasing them. A sudden introduction to a tank environment is actually stressful for a fish so do consider introducing them slowly. A fish dying overnight after seeing white patches may not be due to ich though, and suspect it is more from either suffocation (lack of oxygen either in the water or their gills being choked with slime) or stress.

As for food, I find Dr G's anti-parasitic caviar the best at treating fishes so far. It can be found at Ah Beng or Iwarna at Pasir Ris.

Sometimes fishes die also because of the transporting which took a toll on them. It is not recommended to buy a fish which just landed at the LFS as the handling of the fish is rather rough.

 

As Yono pointed out, do check the parameters of your water too. Ammonia poisoning is lethal and injures the gills of the fish.

 

 

Sofishticated Friend

Thanks for replying... i do not have test kits yet... :(... maybe time to get 1 to do testing. The water salinity is around 1.026. Might drop by Iwarna to get the anti-parasitic caviar. Thanks!