What my royal gamma doing?

[Notsolostfish]

I had this royal gamma for 1 week, and was just wondering what the fish doing?- is that parasite? Its doing it only to that side of the tank on the crab shell. Its weird. I bought a qt tank today and copper power and ima set it up soon just in case. Its my first tank.. so be easy on me. My clowns have no symptoms or dots, not even the blenny

 

[vetteguy53081]

I had this royal gamma for 1 week, and was just wondering what the fish doing?- is that parasite? Its doing it only to that side of the tank on the crab shell. Its weird. I bought a qt tank today and copper power and ima set it up soon just in case. Its my first tank.. so be easy on me. My clowns have no symptoms or dots, not even the blenny

Thanks for clear and long running video.
While the behavior of flashing/darting suggests flukes, it is not continuous and I would suggest before going through the task of quarantine and treatment
See how often/ how much time apart it does this. Flukes will cause loss of appetite, heavy breathing, flashing, yawning effect and scraping gills against objects

 

[Notsolostfish]

Thanks for clear and long running video.
While the behavior of flashing/darting suggests flukes, it is not continuous and I would suggest before going through the task of quarantine and treatment
See how often/ how much time apart it does this. Flukes will cause loss of appetite, heavy breathing, flashing, yawning effect and scraping gills against objects

Hes active and eatint today. But heres the royal gamma today. Sorry for the long boring video. But what is he doing exactly



Do i move it to the qt? Im confused haha hes active and eating and all no other fish doing it.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hes active and eatint today. But heres the royal gamma today. Sorry for the long boring video. But what is he doing exactly



Do i move it to the qt? Im confused haha hes active and eating and all no other fish doing it.

While the fish does look normal, I did see an episode of flashing, scratching and yawning. With this, it is suggested to be flukes.
You can sefely add ruby rally pro to the display which will address this, or you can quarantine and treat with PraziPro or you ca wait and see if any change

 

[Notsolostfish]

While the fish does look normal, I did see an episode of flashing, scratching and yawning. With this, it is suggested to be flukes.
You can sefely add ruby rally pro to the display which will address this, or you can quarantine and treat with PraziPro or you ca wait and see if any change

He developed a white spot on his mouth

 

[vetteguy53081]

He developed a white spot on his mouth

That spot may be sand and will vanish shortly if so. Even if lympho or rot would not show up instantaneously

 

[wlmalek]

Hes active and eatint today. But heres the royal gamma today. Sorry for the long boring video. But what is he doing exactly



Do i move it to the qt? Im confused haha hes active and eating and all no other fish doing it.

my tang do the same thing to show dominance. I had fish with flukes and ich they will scrape more frequent and harder. From video both the gramma and blenny are opening their mouths as a sign of aggression.

He is in your tank now active and eating. Watch him closely for any spots, heavy breathing, rotten fins, loosing appetite then you can act and transfer him to qt.

 

[Notsolostfish]

That spot may be sand and will vanish shortly if so. Even if lympho or rot would not show up instantaneously

Good morning. Noticed my bicolor blenny trying to bite his tail is that normal? Kinda weird seeing him doing it for the first time ever?

 

[Notsolostfish]

That spot may be sand and will vanish shortly if so. Even if lympho or rot would not show up instantaneously

The spot was sand. It dropped or i dont know what it was. Man as my first saltwater fish its hard i dont know if its normal or not to be honest. Fed them mysis shrimp and they are actice.

 

[TokenReefer]

I'm no expert but you Gramma looks good from the video. The fact that it's comfortable enough to be out and not hiding constantly I would consider to be a good sign

 

[vetteguy53081]

The spot was sand. It dropped or i dont know what it was. Man as my first saltwater fish its hard i dont know if its normal or not to be honest. Fed them mysis shrimp and they are actice.

Thats what I suspected.
Take time to enjoy the tank and not spending too much time worrying as marine fish do very bizzare things.
In addition to mysis add:
Spirulina brine shrimp
marine cuisine
LRS fish frenzy

 

[Notsolostfish]

Thats what I suspected.
Take time to enjoy the tank and not spending too much time worrying as marine fish do very bizzare things.
In addition to mysis add:
Spirulina brine shrimp
marine cuisine
LRS fish frenzy

Good morning. Hes still flashing everyday but hes eating and active. His tail and fins are covered in invisible white spots. They are not grain salt they are just white blend in spots. Heres a video.


Is that a velvet or lympho?

 

[HomebroodExotics]

Good morning. Hes still flashing everyday but hes eating and active. His tail and fins are covered in invisible white spots. They are not grain salt they are just white blend in spots. Heres a video.


Is that a velvet or lympho?

He looks pretty good. I would suspect another fish might be nipping at his tail a little bit.

 

[TokenReefer]

Can jjjuuust make out something on the tail but hard to get a clear look. Does the Gramma have a place to chill/hide/rest that's kinda outside of the territory of your other fish?

 

[Notsolostfish]

Can jjjuuust make out something on the tail but hard to get a clear look. Does the Gramma have a place to chill/hide/rest that's kinda outside of the territory of your other fish?

Yes it does.

 

[TokenReefer]

Great! I'd keep an eye on fish interactions but nothing crazy imo in your video. Hopefully an expert will take a look and be able to chime in with better info

 

[Notsolostfish]

Thats what I suspected.
Take time to enjoy the tank and not spending too much time worrying as marine fish do very bizzare things.
In addition to mysis add:
Spirulina brine shrimp
marine cuisine
LRS fish frenzy

I was finally able to get you a good video for the spots.

Great! I'd keep an eye on fish interactions but nothing crazy imo in your video. Hopefully an expert will take a look and be able to chime in with better info

 

[vetteguy53081]

I was finally able to get you a good video for the spots.

I was able to see spots on the tail which is lymphocystis associated often with water quality issues such as high ammonia and nitrate and diet. If you are feeding flakes and pellets, this fish needs more
There was a bit of debris and microbubbles within the tank which may suggest filtration and maintenance issues and making it hard to detect if it was debris or dots on the fish

 

[Notsolostfish]

I was able to see spots on the tail which is lymphocystis associated often with water quality issues such as high ammonia and nitrate and diet. If you are feeding flakes and pellets, this fish needs more
There was a bit of debris and microbubbles within the tank which may suggest filtration and maintenance issues and making it hard to detect if it was debris or dots on the fish

The guy at the fish store had lympho on other fish. But he said oh thats the top tank and not the bottom tank. Not my tank. I do weekly water changes. I have no ammonia, nitrite or anything else. My nitrate is 10 and sometimes lower. My skimmer is on. And i have good tank maintenance. I change my socks always. I dont know why would micro bubbles suggest issues

 

[vetteguy53081]

The guy at the fish store had lympho on other fish. But he said oh thats the top tank and not the bottom tank. Not my tank. I do weekly water changes. I have no ammonia, nitrite or anything else. My nitrate is 10 and sometimes lower. My skimmer is on. And i have good tank maintenance. I change my socks always. I dont know why would micro bubbles suggest issues

Microbubbles is not an issue but makes it difficult to see anything on a video
What test kits are you using ?