Help with diagnosis

[Jblaine]

I recently came back from being away for a week and noticed some of my fish looking like they had an out break of some kind. I did loose a 6 line wrasse and a powder brown tang. I placed all my other fish in a QT tank and started to use cupramine last night. I have a picture of my lightning maroon clown that looks the worst out of all my fish that are left. Does someone know what this actually might be? I’m thinking velvet. Just trying to make sure I’m doing the correct treatment.
Thanks
Jon

 

[Qasimja]

looks like brooklynella to me the skin looks to be peeling off treat all the fish with seachem metro and copper to rule out velvet as well

Brooklynella

Brooklynella hostilis What You Need To Know: * This is most often seen in clownfish, but it can afflict any fish. The fish’s skin will appear to be peeling or sloughing off, oftentimes causing excessive white mucous to form around the affected area(s). * Treatment of choice is a 45 minute...

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Velvet (Amyloodinium ocellatum)

Marine Velvet Disease (Amyloodinium ocellatum) What You Need To Know: * Fast killing parasite capable of wiping out most of your fish in just a matter of days. Sometimes there are survivors, sometimes not. * Can be treated in a quarantine tank using Chloroquine phosphate or Copper. A 5...

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[Big G]

+1 on the Brooklynella. It can kill quickly. Doing daily freshwater dips will clear many of the parasites until you can setup a treatment plan.

Freshwater Dip

Freshwater Dip What It Treats – Provides temporary relief for a wide range of diseases: 1) Marine Velvet Disease (Amyloodinium ocellatum) 2) Brooklynella hostilis 3) Uronema marinum 4) Flukes (Monogeneans) 5) Black Ich (Turbellarians) Can be used to confirm the presence of Flukes (see video...

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[Jblaine]

So will the cupramine help at all with this until I get other meds to dip them? Also should I try to do water changes to get the cupramine out of the tank or just leave it in the water in the QT tank?

 

[Big G]

So will the cupramine help at all with this until I get other meds to dip them? Also should I try to do water changes to get the cupramine out of the tank or just leave it in the water in the QT tank?

Cupramine will help if it's also velvet. But it won't help with Brook.

So we look for an overall picture to check for velvet, not just white spots. Here's a complete descriptor so you can decide if you think you see a need to treat for velvet:

Symptoms – Velvet dinospores will usually invade the gills first and sometimes kill the fish right then due to asphyxiation. If this happens, you may never see physical evidence of velvet on the skin & fins. Therefore, it is important to observe for these key behavioral symptoms of velvet:

• Reduced or complete loss of appetite.
• Heavy breathing, scratching, flashing, head twitching, erratic swimming behavior (unfortunately velvet shares all these same symptoms with ich & gill flukes.)
• Swimming into the flow of a water pump/wavemaker/powerhead (unique to velvet).
• Acting reclusive (velvet causes fish to be sensitive to light).

If visible physical symptoms do manifest:

• Velvet may initially start out looking just like ich, with salt or sugar-like “sprinkles” visible mostly on the fins.
• Within days or sometimes just hours, these tiny white dots will spread all over the fish’s body, covering it in “dust.” This dust may look grey-gold colored if viewed at the right angle and under the right spectrum of light. For this reason, it may be difficult to see velvet on a yellow or light colored fish (look from an angle, not directly from the side). However, sometimes a fish’s body will look “dirty” or show “dark areas” just before velvet appears.