Minor Scale Loss

[A Toadstool Leather]

My bicolor dottyback has one spot where there are no scales. The fish is still healthy and eating and has maintained its coloration. Can the fish recover from this? What can I do to aid recovery? There are no other fish in the tank (30 gal) since I find them too aggressive for tankmates.

 

[aykwm]

Can you post a photo of the affected area.
If its not caused by disease, then it should recover on its own. Just watch out for bacterial infection that might develop from the open wound. Its most likely a wound from LR or other hard surface.

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

Can you post a photo of the affected area.
If its not caused by disease, then it should recover on its own. Just watch out for bacterial infection that might develop from the open wound. Its most likely a wound from LR or other hard surface.

I think its a wound from lr. It likes to sleep inside some of the crevices within the rock. If it gets a bacterial infection what should I use?

 

[Maritimer]

You'd want to use antibiotics in the case of a bacterial infection - and you'd want to use them in a quarantine tank, rather than the display. Different antibiotics have effects on different types of bacteria, so to get wide-spectrum coverage you may want to use several. Furan-2, Metroplex and Kanaplex are a combination that's worked well in the past.

~Bruce

 

[4FordFamily]

You'd want to use antibiotics in the case of a bacterial infection - and you'd want to use them in a quarantine tank, rather than the display. Different antibiotics have effects on different types of bacteria, so to get wide-spectrum coverage you may want to use several. Furan-2, Metroplex and Kanaplex are a combination that's worked well in the past.

~Bruce

X2, especially if you observe any redness at all.

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

You'd want to use antibiotics in the case of a bacterial infection - and you'd want to use them in a quarantine tank, rather than the display. Different antibiotics have effects on different types of bacteria, so to get wide-spectrum coverage you may want to use several. Furan-2, Metroplex and Kanaplex are a combination that's worked well in the past.

~Bruce

I will keep these in mind. Thanks for the help