Large white spot on blenny head

[calebbader]

Help. It seems like over night my bicolor blenny developed a large white spot underneath it’s eye. There’s no clouding there is a similar large spot located midway down it’s lateral body. It’s abdomen is distended and it’s breathing heavy. Any ideas what it is and how to treat?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Help. It seems like over night my bicolor blenny developed a large white spot underneath it’s eye. There’s no clouding there is a similar large spot located midway down it’s lateral body. It’s abdomen is distended and it’s breathing heavy. Any ideas what it is and how to treat?

This looks to be post injury and can be developing a bacterial issue. They can be skittish and dive into rocks risking injury.
Best would be to treat in separate quarantine tank and treat with either seachem Kanaplex or Maracyn 2 for at least 5 days, adding aeration with an air stone and monitoring ammonia levels with a reliable test kit

 

[calebbader]

This looks to be post injury and can be developing a bacterial issue. They can be skittish and dive into rocks risking injury.
Best would be to treat in separate quarantine tank and treat with either seachem Kanaplex or Maracyn 2 for at least 5 days, adding aeration with an air stone and monitoring ammonia levels with a reliable test kit

Thank you so much! I am new to the hobby and do not have a quarantine tank. Would I be able to treat this in the main tank?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

This does look like an infection of some sort, but the rapid breathing means that there is either another issue going on, or the infection has become systemic (involving the whole fish).

You probably will not be able to treat this in a display tank - a quarantine/treatment tank with antibiotics would be best.

Jay