Help! Male Anthais

kmurphy · Sep 16, 2023

help! This is a male Anthias we have had for two weeks and he seemed to be doing fine but he was hiding this morning. He is not swimming around or eating. I can’t tell if the wound at his gill is from aggression or illness.

sc50964 · Sep 16, 2023

Can you move some rocks to get him? Looks like a bacterial infection

kmurphy · Sep 16, 2023

OK, thank you. We actually did get him moved into a bio cube with no other fish.

sc50964 · Sep 16, 2023

kmurphy said:
OK, thank you. We actually did get him moved into a bio cube with no other fish.

Ok so time for some more pix. Thx

vetteguy53081 · Sep 16, 2023

kmurphy said:
help! This is a male Anthias we have had for two weeks and he seemed to be doing fine but he was hiding this morning. He is not swimming around or eating. I can’t tell if the wound at his gill is from aggression or illness.

I am able to expand this picture. From the looks of raised scaled and oval pattern, fish appears to have uronema which is Not uncommon with this fish. Uronema is an oval ciliated motile protozoan which causes tissue necrosis as seen on fish. What other fish are in the tank?
This can also be triggered by low salinity levels as well as excess food waste on tank bottom which this protozoan can feed on as often prevention can be more valuable than cure for this.
Fish will have to be quarantined and treated with formalin based treatment which is harder to find, so next option is Ruby rally Pro. Chloroquine Phosphate will also work but must be used precisely. Uronema is not an obligate parasite, and can thrive on bacteria, uneaten food, and waste so besides treatment also maintain a clean tank removing waste daily.
What other fish are in the tank?

kmurphy · Sep 16, 2023

vetteguy53081 said:
I am able to expand this picture. From the looks of raised scaled and oval pattern, fish appears to have uronema which is Not uncommon with this fish. Uronema is an oval ciliated motile protozoan which causes tissue necrosis as seen on fish. What other fish are in the tank?
This can also be triggered by low salinity levels as well as excess food waste on tank bottom which this protozoan can feed on as often prevention can be more valuable than cure for this.
Fish will have to be quarantined and treated with formalin based treatment which is harder to find, so next option is Ruby rally Pro. Chloroquine Phosphate will also work but must be used precisely. Uronema is not an obligate parasite, and can thrive on bacteria, uneaten food, and waste so besides treatment also maintain a clean tank removing waste daily.
What other fish are in the tank?

I was concerned about that. I have two female anthais - one disappeared about a week ago and my local store replaced it and told me it was probably aggression. I also have a yellow eye kole tang, juvenile blue Atlantic tang, clarkii pearl eyed clown, leopard wrasse, yellow wrasse, flame hawkfish and flame angel. I also just purchased a golden head sleeper goby that I was supposed to be adding.

vetteguy53081 · Sep 16, 2023

kmurphy said:
I was concerned about that. I have two female anthais - one disappeared about a week ago and my local store replaced it and told me it was probably aggression. I also have a yellow eye kole tang, juvenile blue Atlantic tang, clarkii pearl eyed clown, leopard wrasse, yellow wrasse, flame hawkfish and flame angel. I also just purchased a golden head sleeper goby that I was supposed to be adding.

Keep an eye on flame who is susceptible to this disease