ORA Aiptasia eating filefish

FishFilet · Aug 13, 2023

For the longest time my ORA Aiptasia eating filefish lost its mottled coloring and became less and less likely to roam the tank. Maybe I thought his tank mate a six line wrasse was making him hesitant as he did remove a case of lymphocystitis eagerly and satisfactorily. A little like having a surgeon run at you with a scalpel without anesthesia. Then I determined the lil guy wasn’t moving round much because he wasn’t seeing well. So I treated him two times with PraziPro considering it was caused by Digenea flukes. It took over a month for him to come around and then I changed his food. He colored back up. Added in new amphipods and I’ve never seen him color up this well.

The main problem was perceiving an eye problem since they do have unusual opaque eyes.

FishFilet · Aug 13, 2023

Jay Hemdal · Aug 13, 2023

FishFilet said:
For the longest time my ORA Aiptasia eating filefish lost its mottled coloring and became less and less likely to roam the tank. Maybe I thought his tank mate a six line wrasse was making him hesitant as he did remove a case of lymphocystitis eagerly and satisfactorily. A little like having a surgeon run at you with a scalpel without anesthesia. Then I determined the lil guy wasn’t moving round much because he wasn’t seeing well. So I treated him two times with PraziPro considering it was caused by Digenea flukes. It took over a month for him to come around and then I changed his food. He colored back up. Added in new amphipods and I’ve never seen him color up this well.

The main problem was perceiving an eye problem since they do have unusual opaque eyes.

I also cannot tell about its eyes from the photo. One type of fluke, Neobenedenia causes the surface of the eyes to become cloudy. Digenean flukes cause deep-seated cloudiness of the eyes, but adding Praziquantel to the water does not really remove those.

One issue with Neobenedenia is that praziquantel does not kill its eggs. It is VERY common for infections to return after double treatments. Three to five treatments, 8 days apart is sometimes required.

Jay