What in the world is this??

[Briana Mann]

so, a couple days ago i was watching my boyfriends saltwater tank (29g Biocube) and i noticed that on his wrasses there are some whitespecks haning off of them, we tried contacting the fish store that sold us the fish and they wouldnt help us out. does anybody have any idea what in the world is going on??!!

 

[Doclight]

White specks can be several things. Send us a pic.. And screw that fish store. You need a better supplier.

 

[Briana Mann]

ill be able to get some pictures when i get home later today. im just a little scared beause i spent around $100 on this beautiful fairy wrasse and hes the one who had the specks first now its onto my melanurus. were hoping it doest get to our new clouded wrasse but so far it looks like they have effected the majority of our fish.

 

[DeepBlueSomething]

Check this very helpful thread out to get a start - best of luck and agree not a very good LFS

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fish-disease-index-pictorial-guide.285708/

 

[DeepBlueSomething]

ill be able to get some pictures when i get home later today. im just a little scared beause i spent around $100 on this beautiful fairy wrasse and hes the one who had the specks first now its onto my melanurus. were hoping it doest get to our new clouded wrasse but so far it looks like they have effected the majority of our fish.

Any updates or ideas on what is going on Briana? Hoping you all have a plan for your wrasses / tank.

 

[Briana Mann]

Yeah, we finally found out that theres something wrong with our baby wrasse and he had flukes on him were having to seperate all of our fish into different 5 gallon tanks to heal.

 

[Briana Mann]

but on the upside our clouded wrasse finally came out

 

[eatbreakfast]

FYI flukes can be treated in the dt with prazipro. Also, you will want to treat the st anyway to kill any flukes in the tank.

 

[DeepBlueSomething]

FYI flukes can be treated in the dt with prazipro. Also, you will want to treat the st anyway to kill any flukes in the tank.

@eatbreakfast Did you meat 'will want to treat the DT anyway to kill...' and st was just typo? Pretty sure, just wanted to clarify for @Briana Mann

 

[Briana Mann]

Thank you, We have been waiting till i get paid to go buy everything we need to help cure this. we have the bio cube drained and everything taken out and separated to be cleaned. praying that everything goes good and that we can get it taken care of in a quick matter.

 

[Briana Mann]

@eatbreakfast Did you meat 'will want to treat the DT anyway to kill...' and st was just typo? Pretty sure, just wanted to clarify for @Briana Mann

i got what he was saying @eatbreakfast thank you guys for helping!

 

[eatbreakfast]

@eatbreakfast Did you meat 'will want to treat the DT anyway to kill...' and st was just typo? Pretty sure, just wanted to clarify for @Briana Mann

Thanks, yes display tank was my intent.

 

[aquariumreefers]

Sounds like an external parasite Prazipro will help out with worms, flukes and other external parasites.

 

[GHsaltie]

OP, how did you determine it was flukes? Do you have any pictures that we can see?

 

[Briana Mann]

we had one of our good friends whos dealt with flukes before, he came over and helped us out.