damsel down.

I had 2 damsels 1 black/yellow tail and 1 domino damsel had them for about a month. I just got some aquacultured live rock yesterday. Last night my domino damsel was laying down near a rock I just figured he might be sleeping. today when i got home from work i didnt see either of my fish. I started looking and found the domino damsel covered in what looks like spider webbing. Could this have been a bristle worm or any ideas? The yellow tail is still doing well.

ammonia .3ppm
Nitrate .25ppm
nitrite 0

 

Webbing?!?
Bristle worms will actually eat on the outside of a dead fish or find a way inside the fish and eat. I'm not aware of any salt water spiders, something interesting tho!

I'll keep an eye on this one.

-fritts

 

Yeah that happens to my fish when they die. I am not sure what it is either

 

Hard to say. It could just be the slimecoat coming off after he died. I doubt it was a bristleworm. Even if one attacked, the fish would be able to swim away.
Its probably just a loss due to cycling. The domino's are not nearly as hardy as the yellowtails or the blues.