Blue Chromis With Whitish Film

[BigEZ77]

Hi All,

Picked up a Blue Chromis a couple days ago and noticed today a kind of whitish film on it...not spots though. I've attached a couple pics but couldn't get a great shot unfortunately. I have a Flame Angel a few months ago that showed similar signs and eventually died. Any ideas what this is?

Thanks,

 

[anthonys51]

holy molely thats a lot of scolly

hard to say from that picture, goggle marine velvet. i do know i bought 5 of those blue reef chromis and only have 1 left. they where in 3 separate qt tanks.

 

[BigEZ77]

Thanks...I googled and the pics don't look like what's going on with this fish. Maybe it's still early stages.

 

[anthonys51]

i will assume you didnt qt the fish first. i wont yell at you for that.

 

[BigEZ77]

i will assume you didnt qt the fish first. i wont yell at you for that.

My tank is too small to warrant a QT, hehe. Definitely will start a QT my next tank (larger and fowlr).

 

[anthonys51]

Don't feel bad I have 265 gallon tank with 27 fish and still haven't qt a fish. Guess I am lucky [emoji256]


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[BigEZ77]

Not just lucky....extremely lucky. I've had issues twice now without using a QT.

 

[anthonys51]

I have 38 fish total in my system all I lost was 4 chormis. Would t call it extremely lucky. No one gets lucky 38 out of 42 times. I only buy fish from one store. I wait till the fish has been there a month and make sure it's eating and fat. Now I know this isn't qt. Won't advise others not to. Qt is the safe bet. I guess I am a gambler. Ps damn extra point cost me 10k. More upset about that than ich any day


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[scooter31707]

Looks like it could be the start of velvet or uronema.

 

[stelliofleondis]

Uronema is one nasty ailment to my knowledge formalin is the only cure and you can't just do a dip you have to dose it into the tank because it normally eats bacteria in your system not sure how it will affect corals so u have to do some research on that I know it is not good for inverts

 

[stelliofleondis]

http://www.ultimatereef.com/articles/brooklynella/ I found this hope it helps

 

[BigEZ77]

Thanks! That's what is looks like. Although, it seems to be getting better over the past couple days. I will read that article in more depth when I have some time at home.