Tattered fins

[scuzy]

So I have a few fish with tattered fins. But I don't notice much aggression. I did accidently topped off my tank with chloramine water for 3.5 months and large water changes to fix the issues with rodi water that had high chloramine breeched before I realize my rodi filters were shot. This is when everything seems to started happening. I don't think the issue is aggression as my yellow tang in the frag tank that's plumbed to the same sump also has tatter fines and he's the only fish in the. Is there anything I can do? Could it be flukes? Yellow tang is Only fish in frag tank and his fins are tattered.


My display gem and cheron both have major hlle and the gem is to a point where he has no more fins. I'm trying to trap him to get him out to a hospital tank to treat with antibiotics. I'm at a point I don't know what to do. Could I have flukes and should I try dosing the display with prazi for 2 full rounds?

 

[Ranjib]

#reefsquad

 

[EmdeReef]

If you’re sure there was no aggression then there’s an infection going on. I would QT the fish and start ABX to prevent it from spreading further. Make sure to feed well with vitamin enriched foods and give nori to promote healing.

 

[Maritimer]

Infection is a distinct possibility, flukes another . . .

@4FordFamily, have you seen this in Zebrasomas before?

~Bruce

 

[4FordFamily]

Infection is a distinct possibility, flukes another . . .

@4FordFamily, have you seen this in Zebrasomas before?

~Bruce

I’m guessing either or but I’d treat for both. Remove the lot of tangs, treat in NFG in QT after doing a Prazi “dip”. Then, treat with general cure two doses 5-6 days apart. Observe and hope you took care of business.

I’ve seen this before but I’m not sure if it’s flukes or infection so I’d assume both.

 

[scuzy]

Great now to trap him is the though task.

 

[scuzy]

Success finally caught him.
Poor guy going to do nfg and rounds of general cure.

Nurse him back to health if I can.

 

[HotRocks]

I’m guessing either or but I’d treat for both. Remove the lot of tangs, treat in NFG in QT after doing a Prazi “dip”. Then, treat with general cure two doses 5-6 days apart. Observe and hope you took care of business.

I’ve seen this before but I’m not sure if it’s flukes or infection so I’d assume both.

Agree^^^

If it's not flukes it's likely infection. If it is flukes it's possible secondary infection.

NFG is really good stuff. If you don't have NFG. A good start would be Kanaplex + Metroplex + Furan-2.

 

[4FordFamily]

Success finally caught him.
Poor guy going to do nfg and rounds of general cure.

Nurse him back to health if I can.

Gosh that’s rough I hope that fish recovers well...

 

[Brew12]

I'm sorry you are going through this. Poor little guy.
If you haven't already, I would add Seachem Prime or other aquarium safe dechlorinator to your system to help immediately take care of the chloramine. You can safely do this if you have no medications in the system.
Otherwise, I agree. I would try to get them into a QT and treat with antibiotics.

 

[HotRocks]

Also I have another question. What do you feed? Do you offer nori daily? Do you add any vitamin supplements?

 

[scuzy]

Nori 2x a day. They eat like mad. But since my rodi was bad I wasn't aware for 3.5 months and when I saw corals receding I started doing large volume water change with chloramine rodi water. So made it even worse. I hope to get them back to good health. I couldn't capture the Chevron as he's too big for the trap. So if I can fix the gem I'll be happy. I guess all the ammonia burning them alive. Now that I fix the issue the bacterial is keeping it from healing.