Flukes?

[Jeeperz]

I noticed my female clown had white cloudiness in two patches on her right eye, didn't cover the whole eye. Was thinking injury so I started dosing stress guard. Today it appears the cloudiness is gone on the eye but just above the eye appears to be the same off white little patch, maybe grain of rice size. None of the other fish have anything that I can see. She always hides the one side, always has. If it were the left side would be no issue getting a pic. Nothing new added in many months.

Do flukes move? Is there a reef safe in tank treatment, besides stress guard, which is just a bandaid.

 

[Big G]

Yes, flukes do move around. Prazipro is reef safe, other than feather dusters, bristleworms can be effected and potentially cause an ammonia spike.

 

[Jeeperz]

If one fish has flukes is it safe to think all do? Would a fresh water dip work vs using prazi? I have quite a few of those mini feather dusters on my rock.

Any clue why they just now showed up? Nothing new in a long time

 

[SaltEverywhere]

How did things turn out? I am having the same issue. No new inhabitants for years but my hippo tang started behaving flukey. None of the other fish seem affected. Just now caught her and did FW dip and Prazipro in hospital tank. Did you treat just the sick fish or the whole tank and how is everyone?

 

[Jeeperz]

The white spot disappeared after about a week or so, I was adding sea chem stress guard daily, and kept adding for ~3 weeks. Hasn't been back. Now I have been using API general cure and focus on the good for 2 weeks as my blenny was severely bloated. But I'm seeing no improvement yet, other than 4 fat fish from the daily feeding.