Help with ID and treatment

[Luke Schnabel]

My father in law has a yellow tang that has started to look real bad. I think it looks bacterial but you guys know way more then I do. The fish is currently still very active and eating. It’s fins are slowly withering away as well and so is one of his other tangs. Can you please try to ID this along with a good way for him to fix it.

 

[JasonK84]

HLLE?

 

[JasonK84]

https://www.thesprucepets.com/head-and-lateral-line-erosion-disease-2924961

 

[HotRocks]

It does look like you have a couple things going on.

I would do a 5 min FW dip to see if flukes are present.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/freshwater-dip.248898/


The fish will need moved to a QT and treated with antibiotics. There is a definite bacterial infection. I would use NFG or Furan-2, Kanaplex, and Metroplex.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bacterial-infections.191511/

 

[Luke Schnabel]

Ok thanks! Does anyone else care to input on this? Or has this been pretty much summed up

 

[Maritimer]

I think HotRocks has got you covered. In the frayed and fading fins, I see the possibility of flukes, and in the lesions on the fish's side and belly, I see the certainty of bacterial infection.

The infection seems the greater priority, so the quicker you can wrangle a QT and the antibiotics mentioned, the better the tang's chances of survival.

~Bruce

 

[Luke Schnabel]

Ok thanks guys. I’ll pass all this information along to him. He doesn’t use the internet so he asked me to post something here for help. Thanks again.