Whats wrong with this bicolor?

xkon · 02/03/2015, 02:25 PM

I've had him a few weeks, no issues, looking healthy. Yesterday I noticed him staying near the bottom breathing fast. Then today I see him like this. Still breathing and not moving. His face has some discoloration of sorts on it.

FraggledRock · 02/03/2015, 02:31 PM

are those dots on his face?

could be ich on his gills... and not showing on the exterior til now.

or maybe velvet if he is discoloring...

xkon · 02/03/2015, 02:40 PM

Not ich, the few spots that look like they are on his face are actually on the glass. I'm thinking maybe velvet? Is it weird for velvet to show up several weeks later after no signs?

FraggledRock · 02/03/2015, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by xkon

Not ich, the few spots that look like they are on his face are actually on the glass. I'm thinking maybe velvet? Is it weird for velvet to show up several weeks later after no signs?

of course. from my experience, my clowns died from brooklynella a month after getting them...

DID you introduce new fish?

anything stressing them out?

aggression in tank?

xkon · 02/03/2015, 03:04 PM

Nothing new introduced since he was added. There are two fimbriated eels and a lionfish in the tank but they don't even look twice at the bicolor.

02/03/2015, 02:31 PM	#2
FraggledRock Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: New York, New York Posts: 2,185	are those dots on his face? could be ich on his gills... and not showing on the exterior til now. or maybe velvet if he is discoloring... __________________ “For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”― Jacques-Yves Cousteau MarineBio.org Current Tank Info: 40 Gallon Breeder w/ Bean Animal Overflow 20G Sump, Mixed Reef.

02/03/2015, 02:40 PM	#3
xkon Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: NJ Posts: 258	Not ich, the few spots that look like they are on his face are actually on the glass. I'm thinking maybe velvet? Is it weird for velvet to show up several weeks later after no signs?

02/03/2015, 03:04 PM	#5
xkon Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: NJ Posts: 258	Nothing new introduced since he was added. There are two fimbriated eels and a lionfish in the tank but they don't even look twice at the bicolor.