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My red scooter "blenny" is ill. Nothing visible amiss, but has rapid
breathing and is VERY lethargic. Lethargic enough that he is actually
letting 'pods crawl on his snout.

I'm stumped. Water quality is fine, every other animal in the tank seems
fine.

Any ideas?

Add Homonym's home account wrote:
My red scooter "blenny" is ill. Nothing visible amiss, but has rapid
breathing and is VERY lethargic. Lethargic enough that he is actually
letting 'pods crawl on his snout.

I'm stumped. Water quality is fine, every other animal in the tank seems
fine.

Any ideas?

Is it getting enough to eat????? Never kept one....but wanted to and
read up that feeding is an issue.....and what you are describing is what
I have read might happen.....

Please someone who knows better jump in....

Gill

Gill Passman wrote:

Is it getting enough to eat????? Never kept one....but wanted to and
read up that feeding is an issue.....and what you are describing is what
I have read might happen.....

Please someone who knows better jump in....

Gill

Yup.
That'd be the first thing to look at with any type of dragonette.

However:
They eat pods. There are enough pods in the tank that at the moment,
there are actually pods crawling ON him. I don't think food availability
is the issue.

In any case, this is one of those tank raised ones (bought him at
DEATHCO - YAH, I KNOW...) that is willing to eat frozen foods.

Had him 8 months - he seemed to be eating well enough. I think it's
something else.

Add Homonym's home account wrote:

Gill Passman wrote:

Is it getting enough to eat????? Never kept one....but wanted to and
read up that feeding is an issue.....and what you are describing is
what I have read might happen.....

Please someone who knows better jump in....

Gill

Yup.
That'd be the first thing to look at with any type of dragonette.

However:
They eat pods. There are enough pods in the tank that at the moment,
there are actually pods crawling ON him. I don't think food availability
is the issue.

In any case, this is one of those tank raised ones (bought him at
DEATHCO - YAH, I KNOW...) that is willing to eat frozen foods.

Had him 8 months - he seemed to be eating well enough. I think it's
something else.

Never mind. Too late. He's gone.

Never seen anything like this - very rapid. Took less than three hours
from onset of symptoms (at least the ones I saw - namely the lethargy
and rapid breathing) to death.

First thought was maybe an ammonia spike had burned his gills? - tested
for ammonia, and found nada.

Like I said, I don't think it was starvation. He was eating. Observed
him eating a recently as this morning.

Oh well... At least a new one is not that expensive. I think I'll opt
for a mandarin instead this time. (had one before - was in the tank with
the red scooter at the same time. One morning I awoke to discover
something had bitten/chewed a hole in the side of the mandarin... he
lived for three days with the hole before he expired)

Or maybe this is the universes way of telling me I shold not have
dragonettes...

I have gone through 2 of them myself. Lots of pods and food. Would
even eat frozen foods......and they still died. I kept on in a fuge
loaded with pods and it lasted about 6 months. Certainly long enough
that I never considered him a problem risk. The other wa in a tank I
have had a mandarin in for over a year now, that is virutally nonthing
but pods, chaeto and live rock, with very little space to evens wim,
and my mandarin is doing just great there and is a happy camper, and
so was this little guy, but then like yours and my other one, started
to loose weight, and then died.....Mine also got lethargic.

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:32:59 -0500, Add Homonym's home account
wrote:

My red scooter "blenny" is ill. Nothing visible amiss, but has rapid
breathing and is VERY lethargic. Lethargic enough that he is actually
letting 'pods crawl on his snout.

I'm stumped. Water quality is fine, every other animal in the tank seems
fine.

Any ideas?

-------
I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

Add Homonym's home account wrote:

Never mind. Too late. He's gone.

Sorry, that sucks.

Roy "Tristan" Hauer NET STALKER of old ladies and cripples
trolled us with this bull**** in message
...
Truth be known. I "own" the bitch! Setting here right now looking at a
bill of sale marked Paid in Full...for 1 Bitch...........oh wait maybe
that was the one dog I bought! But I still own CArol with or without a
bill of sal;e. I say something , anyhting and she jumps through those
hoops and rings those bells just l ike a trained animal is taught to
perform in a circus. Her ex husbands taught her well!

"Add Homonym's home account" wrote in message
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Gill Passman wrote:

Is it getting enough to eat????? Never kept one....but wanted to and
read up that feeding is an issue.....and what you are describing is what
I have read might happen.....

Please someone who knows better jump in....

Gill

Yup.
That'd be the first thing to look at with any type of dragonette.

However:
They eat pods. There are enough pods in the tank that at the moment,
there are actually pods crawling ON him. I don't think food availability
is the issue.

In any case, this is one of those tank raised ones (bought him at
DEATHCO - YAH, I KNOW...) that is willing to eat frozen foods.

Had him 8 months - he seemed to be eating well enough. I think it's
something else.