Azure Damsel Disease ID

tdunmore2 · Aug 5, 2017

Hello All,
ent to do a water change in the QT/Frag tank today. Found the damsel hiding under the egg crate and had a large white spot over its left eye. The eye looks a bit enlarged. The damsel is not doing well, a lot of leaning to one side heavily and struggling to stat static. Have had it for about 5 weeks.

Any thoughts on ID?

Many Thanks!

GHsaltie · Aug 5, 2017

It could be an injury that became infected, is the fish in a QT or do you have frags in there? You can start by treating with an antibiotic if there are no frags. Metroplex, kanaplex, furan-2 are all ones I would recommend. If you don't have a QT without corals then you can feed the kanaplex in food bound with seachem focus.

@Humblefish @melypr1985 @ngoodermuth

tdunmore2 · Aug 5, 2017

I'm currently using the tank as both a QT and frag tank and it is the only fish, but have three frags in there with it. I have both focus and kanaplex on hand.

GHsaltie · Aug 5, 2017

It certainly won't hurt to get started on that until we get some more knowledgeable folks in.

tdunmore2 · Aug 5, 2017

Many thanks!

melypr1985 · Aug 5, 2017

It could be an injury. The pictures are too blurry to see much. You can feed the kanaplex + focus, that's fine. Using a frag tank with corals as a QT isn't really all that helpful since you can't treat for much with the corals present and the corals can bring in fish diseases too. Just an fyi

4FordFamily · Aug 5, 2017

melypr1985 said:
It could be an injury. The pictures are too blurry to see much. You can feed the kanaplex + focus, that's fine. Using a frag tank with corals as a QT isn't really all that helpful since you can't treat for much with the corals present and the corals can bring in fish diseases too. Just an fyi

X2. Keep us posted, poor lil guy!

tdunmore2 · Aug 6, 2017

I ended up setting up a make shift 5 gallon bucket with HOB filter for treatment. Treated with Kanaplex directly. Will perform a water change tomorrow (48 hours) and retreat. He is still eating! Thanks for all the help. I need to get my FO QT up and running sooner rather than later it seems.