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    Posted: April 03 2013 at 11:31pm
i JUST LOST MY
Melanurus Wrasse tonight..Cry he was eating fine and was fat too. I went out and came back to feed the tank tonight and i found him at the bottom of the tank on his side. I immediately got him out of the tank and put him in the qt he couldn't stay upright so I held him in a net and gently moved him in front of the return pump.  I tried to revive him... to no avail he finally flopped around and then quit breathing.... so sad I noticed something on his body it was a white blotch above his side fin.
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what would cause something like this?
I am  trying to get pics


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Here are the pics of the white area I am talking about. Its right above the side fin





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No ideas here. Sorry for your loss.
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Looks like something crushed him. That looks just like my jawfish that got pinned between two rocks when the aquascape shifted. If your rock is all the same then I have no idea. Sorry
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Do you have a heater in the tank? Maybe a burn?.. Sorry that sucks
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Aquascape hasn't shifted as far as I know, its all the same.Heater is in the sump... its so depressing.. 

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I have heard if your sand bed is not deep enough and something startles them, they can dive in hitting the bottom of the tank causing serious harm/death.
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am I seeing correctly that there appears to be a big bruise above his side fin?  That looks to be more incriminating than the white spot.  Looks like a crush mark to me as well... do you have anything big enough to pinch or bite him that wide? White mark could just be the tip of a claw piercing the side or the front teeth if a fish did it.
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he is my second largest fish in my tank. the white spot I was referring to is the same as the bruise.I don't have a fish that could leave a mark that big. I do have 8 anemones that could have stung him, but that's about it. If some of the rock moved and pinched him that could explain it though
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