Possible infection and EMERGENCY?? on my mandarin???? :(

[Caleb M]

Hello everyone got a quick question, I was looking over my fishes this morning and I noticed this little lump on my mandarins fin and instantly thought fin rot, but I know better then to guess when I have this awesome forum where its a bunch more people more better at this then me.

But here are the onlyy two other tank mates CLOWNFISH haha
and some blue legged crabs. But i only have one.

I am confident in my ability to do surgery with this guy if I need to cut this lump off, just in case if I cant treat it with medication

Also all my parameters are great and perfect, I also saw the little guy eat some pods so hes "healthy" I just need to know what my options are and im keeping a close eye on my clownfish to see if they develop it as well.

Thank you all and as always

HAPPY REEFING

 

[Dark_Knightt]

Well the pics are kinda small, srry i cant really see it. Also could you please just post your params, its always helpful to see them just in case yk? I personally dont know what it is #reefsquad help

 

[Flippers4pups]

I don’t see anything. Maybe a picture with white light only?

 

[Tired]

Looks like maybe lympho. Please don't try to cut it off.

A mandarin eating pods doesn't mean it's healthy, just means it's not dying. Keep a very close eye on his weight, they can eat hundreds of pods a day and will quickly strip most tanks of the entire pod population.

 

[Caleb M]

i hope it helps I posted a better picture under white light my parameters are

PH 8.3
Nitrates 0
nitrites 0
Kh 180
cal 420

 

[Caleb M]

Looks like maybe lympho. Please don't try to cut it off.

A mandarin eating pods doesn't mean it's healthy, just means it's not dying. Keep a very close eye on his weight, they can eat hundreds of pods a day and will quickly strip most tanks of the entire pod population.

Is that A thing that will hurt my little guy? I aquaculture pods and do daily feedings with him. Hes doing good with that.

 

[Tired]

You should get your nitrates up, your coral will suffer otherwise.

In the white light, it looks more like maybe some fin damage. Keep him well fed, and he should recover. In case it is lympho, you can read up on it. Lympho is a permanent disease, but usually at least mostly cosmetic.

 

[Dark_Knightt]

You should get your nitrates up, your coral will suffer otherwise.

In the white light, it looks more like maybe some fin damage. Keep him well fed, and he should recover. In case it is lympho, you can read up on it. Lympho is a permanent disease, but usually at least mostly cosmetic.

IM currently finding out the hard way that low nitrates hurt corals. I have basically all LPS doing SUPERB but the one xenia I have is just spiralling downhill since i got it a few days ago. Now im feady heavy as hell to raise nitrates a lil.

 

[Caleb M]

You should get your nitrates up, your coral will suffer otherwise.

In the white light, it looks more like maybe some fin damage. Keep him well fed, and he should recover. In case it is lympho, you can read up on it. Lympho is a permanent disease, but usually at least mostly cosmetic.

Awesome im glad its not gonna hurt my little guy I love him, a great fish and very pretty. Ive done some reading on it since when you posted about it earlier. Thankful to say the least. I am just glad the lympho is on his fin and not on the body where it could cause problems.

As for the nitrates ill bump those numbers up for sure, what should they be at out of curiosity? ive honestly never heard of bumping them up its always keep them at or near zero haha. But thank you so much!

 

[Tired]

You should have a bare minimum of 5ppm nitrates. Otherwise your corals will go hungry, and helpful algae can have a hard time growing. If you can't grow non-pest algae, pest algae like hair algae may take advantage of the lack of competition and pop up. 5-10ppm is a good number for most tanks. Some do just fine with much higher, some manage with lower.

The same goes for phosphates. Phosphates should never go below 0.03ppm, or your corals will die at a surprising rate (though it can take them a little while to start reacting), and it can go much higher without doing any harm. High phosphate has no negative effects beyond potentially encouraging algae.

 

[Caleb M]

You should have a bare minimum of 5ppm nitrates. Otherwise your corals will go hungry, and helpful algae can have a hard time growing. If you can't grow non-pest algae, pest algae like hair algae may take advantage of the lack of competition and pop up. 5-10ppm is a good number for most tanks. Some do just fine with much higher, some manage with lower.

The same goes for phosphates. Phosphates should never go below 0.03ppm, or your corals will die at a surprising rate (though it can take them a little while to start reacting), and it can go much higher without doing any harm. High phosphate has no negative effects beyond potentially encouraging algae.

Ah okay thats good thank you for telling me, if im going off of that then my tank is going good, im color blind so I might need to invest in some digital readers. Wich also might explain why I thought some things were wrong too. Thank you so much!!