Queen Angel

[scott133]

i have had a really nice queen angel for quite a while and could not see him this morning and said he would just be hiding well striped the rocks apart and found him he was in perfect condision last night he was just about to get moved into a bigger tank tomorrow but is dead and only a baby leapord wrasse and a yellow tang the queen was about 5-6" any ideas no clean up crew in this tank

water parm

ph 8.4
amm 0ppm
nitrite 0ppm
nitrate 5ppm
temp 26 0c
salt 1.024

ps the yellow tang is really peacful and have had him about 4 years he has never touched anything and the thing is there is not a mark on him any ideas coz it is driving me mad

regrds scott

 

[Buddyboy67]

May have been carrying an internal pathogen ormay have been startled after lights out and bolted for the rockwork in shock....have seen fish stuck in rockwork and die of stress scott.....bad news either way as they are a stunning angel

 

[scott133]

hi buddy

theres no holes in the rock plus there is only 5 rocks in the tank has been fine for 3 years so what could go wrong there are no aggression in the tank so dont understand what has happend

regards scott

 

[Buddyboy67]

Hateful when this happens scott...especially when settled for so long...could he have eaten anything , picked at something or ingested sand ?? When they just drop out of nowhere is always baffling.

 

[scott133]

hi buddy it is a bare bottom tank he eat every food i gave him i just dont understand what happend to him


regards scot

 

[seffieuk]

Oh that is such a awful loss - a queen angel really sorry for your loss

Seffie x

 

[ben1987]

gutted

 

[scott133]

just notice a few chunkes out my baby toalstool may he choked on something like that i dont know can fish choke on stuff like that

regards scott

 

[Buddyboy67]

Toads release quite strong toxins when bitten or their skin broken....may have eaten one nip too many scott and been poisoned.

 

[scott133]

well today i did something awful i diesected my queen angel to find a huge brissle worm in side his body as i still have chunks comeing of my toadstool so it wasnt him it was my black rock crab i found doing it i know it was bad but i needed to find out what had coused it and i have found the problem the brissle worm was about 4"long but was a fin by one 1.5mm width so that was the resion he had been eating the fleash in the queen before he pased away

 

[tropic_john]

well today i did something awful i diesected my queen angel to find a huge brissle worm in side his body as i still have chunks comeing of my toadstool so it wasnt him it was my black rock crab i found doing it i know it was bad but i needed to find out what had coused it and i have found the problem the brissle worm was about 4"long but was a fin by one 1.5mm width so that was the resion he had been eating the fleash in the queen before he pased away

I was about to say ''autopsy time'' when I saw your post.

Gutted eh!
How much did that angel set you back? £30?

 

[scott133]

hi john

the angel set me back £75

but its not about the money it all about the fish to me and i have had the worst things happen to me over the last 1 year so hopefully it will get better soem point .

regards scott

 

[scott133]

told my lfs about that today and they said they have never heard of such a thing

any ideas to help the told stool very ill white mucas comming out of him


regards scott

 

[scott133]

ok the toad stool looks like it is dead but i have put him in a qt with halide lights so see how he is the morra but dont think he will be there

 

[TigerIssey]

Could you get a frag of nice clean and healthy tissue from it before the whole thing dies??