Tomin Tang Help Please!

[Miketc17]

I’ve had this Tomini for two weeks now. It hasn’t touched the veggie clip since day one. But it is constantly grazing on the rocks and eats mysis like a pig up. Yesterday and today it didn’t eat mysis and I feel like she’s not grazing as much. I soak my food in garlic and selcon. About a week ago I noticed an odd faded white spot on both her sides but didn’t think much about it. One side cleared up and the other side is still there (you can see in the video). But today I noticed a couple of these same white spots/patches under her chin and almost like a scratch on her nose. Any idea what this could be? She’s always darting around like crazy through rock and coral so I always thought they were just scratches or coral stings. But the lose of appetite now has me worries. Thank you so much in advance!

If the video isn’t enough, please let me know and I’ll work on getting better footage! Can't figure out how to get the video quality better.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

It looks like it is breathing faster than it should be. It also seems a bit thin, but my immediate concern is that it has a protozoan infection. Are there other fish in the tank? How does your water quality check out? Do you have a treatment tank you can use?
Jay

 

[Miketc17]

It looks like it is breathing faster than it should be. It also seems a bit thin, but my immediate concern is that it has a protozoan infection. Are there other fish in the tank? How does your water quality check out? Do you have a treatment tank you can use?
Jay

Yes there are other fish. I do have a treatment tank. Everyone else seems fine. No white patches and are all eating.

I've never heard of protozoan. What is it and how do I treat it? How bad is it? Thank you so much for your help!

 

[Miketc17]

It looks like it is breathing faster than it should be. It also seems a bit thin, but my immediate concern is that it has a protozoan infection. Are there other fish in the tank? How does your water quality check out? Do you have a treatment tank you can use?
Jay

Salinity 1.026
Temp 77
Ammonia 0
Nitrates 10
Nitrites 0
Ph 8.1
Phos .02

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Water looks fine. The skin discoloration and rapid breathing seems to indicate an infection, if it was just the skin, I would say bacterial, but combine bacteria with the lack of feeding and rapid breathing, it leans more like a protozoan such as velvet. That said, the other fish are exposed and would start showing symptoms....but they aren’t (yet).

Difficult to say what to do in this case: move to a treatment tank and treat with copper and antibiotics would be the “shotgun approach”.

Jay

 

[Miketc17]

Water looks fine. The skin discoloration and rapid breathing seems to indicate an infection, if it was just the skin, I would say bacterial, but combine bacteria with the lack of feeding and rapid breathing, it leans more like a protozoan such as velvet. That said, the other fish are exposed and would start showing symptoms....but they aren’t (yet).

Difficult to say what to do in this case: move to a treatment tank and treat with copper and antibiotics would be the “shotgun approach”.

Jay

Yeah it's so strange. She had two of the same spots on her other side but they are now gone. You're right, I wouldn't be too worried if it wasn't for the lack of eating. What are your thoughts about scratches from rock or stings from torches and a big frogspawn?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Could be scratches from the corals, but unless something caused it to crash into them, I’d think it would avoid them better. Can you confirm that the fish IS breathing rapidly? The video gave me that impression, but it wasn’t super clear.
Jay

 

[Miketc17]

Could be scratches from the corals, but unless something caused it to crash into them, I’d think it would avoid them better. Can you confirm that the fish IS breathing rapidly? The video gave me that impression, but it wasn’t super clear.
Jay

I got busy moving it over to the hospital tank and forgot to take a video! I’ll take one tomorrow so you can see it breathing. I did a FW dip before it went into the hospital tank. Pics are when it was in the FW dip. I noticed a white string coming straight out of the center of its rear discoloration patch. No flukes.