Red Mandarin with white spots

[sstwelder]

I have a male red Mandarin auth a couple white spots on its back. He looks less active than he used to and not sure what is wrong with him. Thanks for any help.

 

[Annahra]

Looks very skinny from the angle in that bottom pic. Is it eating?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yea he is emacited.
If you can find some nutrimar ova do it as soon as you can. It probably the easiest thing to get them to eat.
Poor nutrition will cause all kinds of different symptoms.

 

[sstwelder]

Yea he is emacited.
If you can find some nutrimar ova do it as soon as you can. It probably the easiest thing to get them to eat.
Poor nutrition will cause all kinds of different symptoms.

I will check at my LFS if they have any. I also have a female and she's doing fine. I've had them for a couple months and he just recently became like that. Thanks for the quick reply.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I will check at my LFS if they have any. I also have a female and she's doing fine. I've had them for a couple months and he just recently became like that. Thanks for the quick reply.

It's possible it could be an internal parasite making it so thin.

Did the spots appear before or after it stopped eating well?

 

[sstwelder]

He's had the spot for a couple weeks but it's in the recent days that he seems less active.

 

[sstwelder]

Looking online I might have problems finding nutramar ova in Canada. Any replacements?

 

[ngoodermuth]

You could try hatching baby brine shrimp. Nutrimar ova is prawn eggs, ROE is another thing you could try.

I agree that fish is VERY thin, I think it may be difficult for him to recover at this point what you're seeing is likely secondary infection, but to give him medicine in a QT he would need to be eating something. He probably wouldn't survive long enough for the medicine to help in the state he is in now. I'm sorry, these are tricky fish to keep healthy...

 

[4FordFamily]

May have an infection on its back, not sure there will be anything you can do. Once they're that emaciated they do not eat and starve. Infection is probably the result of malnutrition, and the inability of the fish to fend off anything in its weakened state.

Sorry, not much you can do. The suggestions made may work/help. I'm honestly not sure about treating mandys in antibiotics but furan 2, kanaplex, and metroplex would be the good "trifecta" to dose in a quarantine tank.

Sorry, I know none of that you want to read

 

[melypr1985]

He is very very thin.. I hate to say it again, but that is probably what's causing the white areas. I'm pretty sure that's an infection setting in. You can treat mandys with antibiotics, but unless you find a way to feed him, it wont matter. The two mandys have probably depleted your pod population in your display and are starting to starve. I hate to give that news... but it's the most common problem with mandys.

 

[sstwelder]

Thanks for the replies guys. Haven't seen my Mandarin all day so I'm suspecting that he didn't make it. I got my sister in Toronto to get me some Tisbe pods since my LFS never gets any pods in. Hopefully with those it will keep my female mandarin happy.