Mouth damaged yellow coris wrasse

[PP123]

Hi

Just looking for some options here, noticed a week ago some damage to the wrasse mouth. Hasn't seemed to get any worse or better,No aggression that I have noticed between tankmates and eating and behaving normal.

Wrasse has been in tank for around 1.5 years and was last added fish, nothing new added but a few snails.

Is this something that will resolve by itself or anything I should I be looking out for something?

All parameters stable, Hanna and redsea test kits

SG 1.025
KH 9.5
N03 6.5
PO4 0.09
Ca 430
Mg 1400

Thanks

 

[vetteguy53081]

Can’t open video but Maracyn 2 in quarantine works well as does seachem neoplex

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Hi

Just looking for some options here, noticed a week ago some damage to the wrasse mouth. Hasn't seemed to get any worse or better,No aggression that I have noticed between tankmates and eating and behaving normal.

Wrasse has been in tank for around 1.5 years and was last added fish, nothing new added but a few snails.

Is this something that will resolve by itself or anything I should I be looking out for something?

All parameters stable, Hanna and redsea test kits

SG 1.025
KH 9.5
N03 6.5
PO4 0.09
Ca 430
Mg 1400

Thanks

I was able to get the video to play. That looks like a rub mark. See how the wrasse is sliding up the glass? When fish do that, they often develop rub marks like that. As long as it is still eating well, there really isn't anything treatable. However, the behavior that is causing the rubbing could get worse, and that is tough to modify.

Jay

 

[PP123]

Thanks for the replies.... wow never thought that the rubbing could be the cause.

I'll keep an eye on things and hopefully it will soon heal up.

Thanks again..

 

[Lavey29]

Thanks for the replies.... wow never thought that the rubbing could be the cause.

I'll keep an eye on things and hopefully it will soon heal up.

Thanks again..

Or he got it diving into his sandbed to sleep at night.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Or he got it diving into his sandbed to sleep at night.

Don't forget, wrasse dive nightly into the sand all over the world and few (if any) get scraped up, else you would see it diving, and I never have. It is much more likely that this is a rub mark from stereotypic behavior (which they don't do in the wild).

Jay

 

[Lavey29]

Don't forget, wrasse dive nightly into the sand all over the world and few (if any) get scraped up, else you would see it diving, and I never have. It is much more likely that this is a rub mark from stereotypic behavior (which they don't do in the wild).

Jay

Agree but in our environments where we have our rocks down first on the glass then sand added, I could see where he goes for his night dive in the sand and catches some rock edge below. I know mine must go in fairly aggressively because he stirs up a huge dust storm in the tank when he does his burrow dive.