I'm not sure but can anyone tell me if this is blue-spotted disease he is just missing some spots on one side but he eats great was actually coming to attack the syringe in the pic and acts fine he doesn't act crazy or anything
Bsj disease anyone?
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CindyKz
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Can't see in your pics but if you decide to treat I used Furan 2 and metronidazole on mine, but I think it was the Furan that worked b/c I only used the metronidazole for a couple days. He has survived one month and one day today. We are setting up a species tank for him, I think you and I both posted on another thread. Here is how he looked...
Eventually the tail eroded completely away....
It's almost healed now.
Eventually the tail eroded completely away....
It's almost healed now.
It's hard to see in the photos, but it could certainly be some sort of bacterial infection.
Also, I've seen velvet leave discoloration similar to that as well.
Does he have any other symptoms? Scratching, heavy breathing, swimming into flow, etc?
Also, I've seen velvet leave discoloration similar to that as well.
Does he have any other symptoms? Scratching, heavy breathing, swimming into flow, etc?
No he doesn't do any of that he just hangs in his spot in very front of tank lol and spy around he eats voraciously his behavior is normal from what I've read no scratching or rolling
How long did your guy take to make a recovery and how was his behavior when it first happenedCan't see in your pics but if you decide to treat I used Furan 2 and metronidazole on mine, but I think it was the Furan that worked b/c I only used the metronidazole for a couple days. He has survived one month and one day today. We are setting up a species tank for him, I think you and I both posted on another thread. Here is how he looked...
Eventually the tail eroded completely away....
It's almost healed now.
4FordFamily
Tang, Angel, and Wrasse Nerd!
I cannot tell anything from the photos, what other fish are in the tank? Any hiding from light? Flashing? Scratching? Cryptic behavior? Swimming in to powerheads? (Any tankmates)
Do you have a QT tank you could use, or set one up?
Antibiotics need to be administered in a hospital tank, and if its something more (velvet) you'll need copper as well.
Antibiotics need to be administered in a hospital tank, and if its something more (velvet) you'll need copper as well.
I have two clowns two chromis and a yellow coris wrasse and one hermit they all get along peacefully and no he doesn't hide from light he's in one of the brightest spots and he acts completely normal watching outside the tank till it's time to feed then he's very active
CindyKz
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I treated with furan2 according to package directions, which I think is 4 days. When the spots first appeared he stopped eating. When I moved him from my cycled QT to a hospital tank he stopped burrowing and for a couple days swam around kind of frantically. By the last day of the furan he was eating again, which is why i decided against a second round. It has taken a while for the tissue to grow back, of course, and it hasn't completely healed yet. It took another week for his burrowing behavior to resume.
4FordFamily
Tang, Angel, and Wrasse Nerd!
I would ready antibiotics to be safe. I might simply observe, but obviously the risk of that is that it can take several days for antibiotics to do a whole lot with fish, so on occasion it can be too late to treat for serious infections.
That said, sometimes "discretion is the better part of valor"
That said, sometimes "discretion is the better part of valor"
