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Disease, Toxin, or What?

April 26, 2017disease toxin

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Disease, Toxin, or What?

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Hello Crew, I have a 55gal FOWLR set up and lately my fish seem like they are having trouble breathing. My tank has a Lunare wrasse, Coral Beauty, Niger trigger, cleaner shrimp, Porcupine puffer and 3 blue fin damsels, with a bunch of clean-up critters, Halloween’s, blue legged, Mexican’s and turbo snails. The Wrasse and Damsels seem to have the problem breathing, it is very noticeable and the wrasse fixes itself under a piece of rock and stays there trying to breath. Color and eating are excellent for all the inhabitants, am I missing something? The water is pretty good, NH3 & NO2 are 0, NO3 is about 25ppm, SI PO4 trace amounts, spec grav 1.022 and temp is 72. I have a BakPak II running and an Eheim 2250 canister filter which was repacked about 2 months ago, a Hagen Aqua 200 running carbon periodically and have been doing 5% water changes twice a week. I