Chromis death

[truben1010]

I had this chromis since around August 10 th of this year and it recently died. Almost 3 months later. He never really liked flake food and he kinda nipped and ate frozen brine shrimp. But this last week I didn’t really see him eating. His dead body had reddish marks on them. Could it be uronema? I only had 1 chromis and a blue tang in this qt tank. Is it just regular death markings or a disease?

Whenever he was alive he had no markings anywhere as you can see here

 

[4FordFamily]

It does look like a bacterial infection or uronema but not very advanced (from the photo) so it’s really hard to know for sure.

 

[truben1010]

It does look like a bacterial infection or uronema but not very advanced (from the photo) so it’s really hard to know for sure.

How long does it take for uronema to kill a fish? And also it never had any other red coloring on it while it was alive. Will this disease harm my blue tang? The blue tang has been in there after its death for more than 3 weeks and seems normal .

 

[HotRocks]

How long does it take for uronema to kill a fish? And also it never had any other red coloring on it while it was alive. Will this disease harm my blue tang? The blue tang has been in there after its death for more than 3 weeks and seems normal .

Uronema can also be afflicting the fish internally without outward symptoms.

This is why it's important to treat the for uronema pretty quickly.

 

[4FordFamily]

How long does it take for uronema to kill a fish? And also it never had any other red coloring on it while it was alive. Will this disease harm my blue tang? The blue tang has been in there after its death for more than 3 weeks and seems normal .

The blue tang could be at risk but generally a healthy tang seems unaffected.

 

[truben1010]

Uronema can also be afflicting the fish internally without outward symptoms.

This is why it's important to treat the for uronema pretty quickly.

How do I treat it?

 

[Big G]

How do I treat it?

Uronema is a very challenging disease to treat. Hope this link helps a bit. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/uronema-marinum.247940/

 

[truben1010]

Uronema is a very challenging disease to treat. Hope this link helps a bit. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/uronema-marinum.247940/

I’m just curious why my chromis did not have red color while it was alive. It just had them once it died

 

[Big G]

It's kinda like a bruise that shows up later. And in these situations, the red areas "show" after the fish has passed. You see this a lot with bacterial type infections after the fish has passed. Makes it real tough to treat when the fish is alive and not showing symptoms. Which is happening a lot these days with velvet and bacterial infections that have become very common as the fish supply system is in horrible condition with disease. And we've seen uronema, which used to be just a chromis disease, has jumped into other species of fish. Not good.

 

[truben1010]

It's kinda like a bruise that shows up later. And in these situations, the red areas "show" after the fish has passed. You see this a lot with bacterial type infections after the fish has passed. Makes it real tough to treat when the fish is alive and not showing symptoms. Which is happening a lot these days with velvet and bacterial infections that have become very common as the fish supply system is in horrible condition with disease. And we've seen uronema, which used to be just a chromis disease, has jumped into other species of fish. Not good.

So do you think this was a bacterial disease?

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

To me it looks more like a bacterial infection than uronema.