White Tail Tang has lumps!

[Kjgaeta]

Here is a picture of the white film after scraping it off.

 

[Topekoms]

Looks like a bacterial infection of some sort keep an eye on the other fish for symptoms

 

[Kjgaeta]

Will do. Will update ASAP. All other fishes look healthy as far as I’m concerned.

 

[Pinback]

Sorry for the loss

 

[Kjgaeta]

Sorry for the loss

Thank you. My girlfriend took it hard. Trying to figure this out so I don’t go through this again.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Sorry for loss. Looks like bacterial, not protozoan

 

[Kjgaeta]

Sorry for loss. Looks like bacterial, not protozoan

I appreciate that! I’ll try and do more research on bacterial infections. Thank you for the input!

 

[reef lover]

+1 bacterial...
If others show symptoms will need to put in qt and treat with trifecta.

 

[Kjgaeta]

Will do, Thank you!
Any ideas on when I’m able to add more livestock? How long to wait & ect...

 

[reef lover]

Myself...i would qt any new livestock and if no infection presents in the dt during the qt time than you should be good to go.

 

[Kjgaeta]

Myself...i would qt any new livestock and if no infection presents in the dt during the qt time than you should be good to go.

I have livestock in QT. Just slowly transferring so I don’t get an ammonia spike and then this happened. Question is when should I go ahead and start transferring again. All is well. Did a big water change after the loss and all is well with the other fishes. Everyone is eating and healthy.

 

[reef lover]

From what ive read infections arent contagious like that. So you should be fine.

 

[Kjgaeta]

From what ive read infections arent contagious like that. So you should be fine.

Thank you. I have been working so I haven’t had time to do additional research on this. Will wait until late next week and maybe add a few more fishes and see how it goes. Thank you for all your help!