Velvet??

[yekutiel]

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Hello, welcome to Reef2Reef!

Your questions was posted in Yiddish, and I'm sorry, I cannot read it. Can you please repost in English?

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The black spots on the naso tang are likely turbellarian worms. Velvet causes very rapid breathing in fish.

Jay

 

[yekutiel]

Hello, welcome to Reef2Reef!

Your questions was posted in Yiddish, and I'm sorry, I cannot read it. Can you please repost in English?

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The black spots on the naso tang are likely turbellarian worms. Velvet causes very rapid breathing in fish.

Jay

For the past two weeks I have been seeing what looks like an eruption of velvet on my fish
Lots of tiny white dots and the eyes are also a bit cloudy
On the other hand, they behave completely normally
Breathe and swim well and eat well
What should I do?

I should point out that I have had them for almost a year and they went through a long quarantine before I put them in the tank
The only thing that has changed is that the temperature has dropped a bit (75) because of the winter

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I very confident that this is not velvet. The first, and sometimes only symptom of that is rapid breathing. Fish will stop feeding, hover in the current, breath fast and die within 3 or 4 days (often the early symptoms are missed and it seems like they die in a day).

If the spots are white, it could be marine ich, Cryptocaryon. I think I can see black spots on the naso, that could be Turbellarian worms. However, having the fish for a year with no issues is unusual. Have you recently added any fish or corals to the tank?

Jay

 

[yekutiel]

I added a month or so ago Pintail Fairy Wrasse, and Flametail blenni
Both were quarantined.
Other than that there were no other significant changes
Could it be a virus?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I added a month or so ago Pintail Fairy Wrasse, and Flametail blenni
Both were quarantined.
Other than that there were no other significant changes
Could it be a virus?

Unlikely to be a virus. Many viruses are specific to only certain fish species. The only common one is Lymphocystis and that causes the fish's skin cells to grow to larger size and that isn;t this.

It could be marine ich. Sometimes, naso tangs develop black skin reactions to the presence of the ich trophonts.

Jay

 

[yekutiel]

תודה על העזרה
האם עלינו לעשות משהו עכשיו, או להשאיר את המצב כפי שהוא?

 

[Weeb]

I added a month or so ago Pintail Fairy Wrasse, and Flametail blenni
Both were quarantined.
Other than that there were no other significant changes
Could it be a virus?

When you write that these fish were quarantined, it is unclear what your quarantine process/procedure may consist. Can you say more about your quarantine process please?

 

[vetteguy53081]

This fish clearly shows black ich. While called ich- as Jay stated are worms that give it the appearance of ich as melanin pigmentation causes the appearance of black dots . Typically, worm treatments such as PraziPro will work as will formalin based treatment for more challenging strains and even Ruby Rally Pro. If none available immediately, you can give fish a 5 minutes freshwater dip for temporary relief same temperature as display tank.
It takes one worm to start an infestation even if fish were quarantined

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

תודה על העזרה
האם עלינו לעשות משהו עכשיו, או להשאיר את המצב כפי שהוא?

Sorry, this message came through as Yiddish as well.
Jay

 

[vetteguy53081]

Sorry, this message came through as Yiddish as well.
Jay

You cant read this ?

 

[yekutiel]

This fish clearly shows black ich. While called ich- as Jay stated are worms that give it the appearance of ich as melanin pigmentation causes the appearance of black dots . Typically, worm treatments such as PraziPro will work as will formalin based treatment for more challenging strains and even Ruby Rally Pro. If none available immediately, you can give fish a 5 minutes freshwater dip for temporary relief same temperature as display tank.
It takes one worm to start an infestation even if fish were quarantined

On the Naso it really looks black but the purple tang is all covered in little white dots
I have attached more clearer pictures

 

[Weeb]

Sorry, this message came through as Yiddish as well.
Jay

[We're going to have to learn Yiddish.]

 

[yekutiel]

[נצטרך ללמוד יידיש.]

 

[Weeb]

There you go Jay. You have the English and Yiddish. Just work it out. <joking>

 

[vetteguy53081]

On the Naso it really looks black but the purple tang is all covered in little white dots
I have attached more clearer pictures

These pics suggest ich and mucus plugs and will need to be treated in a quarantine setting. A freshwater dip will offer temporary relief IF fish is not breathing heavily. After dip, You will need to place fish in Quarantine tank and treat with Coppersafe or Copper Power at therapeutic level 2.25-2.5 For a FULL 30 days (do not interrupt this 30 day period) monitored by a reliable Copper Test kit such as Hanna Brand- No API brand. Also monitor Ammonia levels while in quarantine with a reliable test kit and add aeration during treatment using an air stone.
The display tank will have to be kept fishless (FALLOW) for 6-8 weeks to assure the existing parasites go through their life cycle without a host fish and die off
A quarantine tank can be as simple as a starter kit from Walmart which most of the needed essentials.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

You cant read this ?

ניין

Jay