Should I put fish with Lymphocystis in display tank?

[Lionfish hunter]

I have 2 blue tangs 7 days into ttm. I thought 1 of them had ich but now I believe it to be Lymphocystis. The same spots I thought were ich have gotten slightly larger, have not fallen off, and none fell off after a 4 minute freshwater dip. Since this virus is unable to be totally cleared, should this fish go into my display tank after quarantine? Is it worth exposing all my other fish?

 

[moz71]

I did put fish with lympho in display from quarantine. It just wasn’t going away in qt. But quickly healed when in display tank. Which I believed he healed faster due to the lower stress. It was on a regal angelfish.

 

[sweetLou03]

I did put fish with lympho in display from quarantine. It just wasn’t going away in qt. But quickly healed when in display tank. Which I believed he healed faster due to the lower stress. It was on a regal angelfish.

I have same on my regal in QT, after putting in the display did it infect other fish?

 

[Nano sapiens]

Luckily, this is typically a self-limiting disease:

Lymphocystis Info

I had this start up on a wild caught Azure Damsel and it took ~3-4 weeks for visible symptoms to disappear in my display.

My take is that if your aquarium and fish are healthy, I wouldn't worry about this one.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Can you post some pics just to be sure it’s lympho?
If it is, there won’t be anything wrong with putting them in.

 

[sweetLou03]

Can you post some pics just to be sure it’s lympho?
If it is, there won’t be anything wrong with putting them in.

Sure.. looks like lympho but I’m no expert ..he didn’t have it when i put him in QT but the stress of QT might have caused it to show? He’s been in 2.5ppm copper power for 5 days. Eating and doing well besides the lympho. I’m suspecting it will go away when I put him in DT. Thanks for your help!

 

[Sharkbait19]

Definitely lympho. Keep up good feedings and good params and it should clear up on its own. Stress from copper/qt probably doesn’t help, but ich/velvet is a lot worse than lympho.

 

[sweetLou03]

Definitely lympho. Keep up good feedings and good params and it should clear up on its own. Stress from copper/qt probably doesn’t help, but ich/velvet is a lot worse than lympho.

Thank you for the help! Yes it is. I started my new waterbox in beginning of April. Added a blue tang and within 2 or 3 weeks he had ich and velvet and wiped out most of my tank. Of course I didn’t QT , and the blue tang lived. Since everything in the tank was new and I didn’t have any coral I emptied it cleaned everything, got new sand, new rocks, and all new equipment so I don’t cross contaminate. Now I’m paranoid, can’t deal with that again lol. All fish in the DT have gone through QT and look good I don’t want to mess anything up by adding lympho to the tank.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Lympho doesn’t spread to others, it simply is a viral condition, usually as a reaction to poor conditions.
FWIW, it’s a lot easier and cheaper to fallow the tank after ich or velvet. The tank sits without fish for an amount of weeks (different for each disease), and then it’s safe to put fish back in. It gives time for the microfauna to establish.