Blue/green chromis injury/parasite?

[breederforlife]

Help, my blue/green chromis has been fine in my tank for the past 3 months but yesterday i saw it had a long, wide line on its right side. It was all red in the middle.

This morning when i checked up on the fish it had gotten worst, the whole line is now red.
I don't think another fish did this as i only have a sixline wrasse and the line is too wide and long to be a bite.

I will try to post a picture later.

Please help me identify this and tell me what to do to solve it.

Thx
Alex

 

[HumbleFish]

Chromis seem to be susceptible to the Uronema marinum parasite. Might want to Google that and have a look. Although 3 months is probably too long an incubation period.

 

[breederforlife]

I think you might be right about the Uronema marinum parasite. I gave the chromis to my LFS for nearly three weeks while i was away and it came back 4 days ago.
Will the parasite affect my sixline?
And im going to get a small coral beauty angel will it affect him?
Can the chromis survive?
I will post a picture when i get the fish in position
Thx
Alex

 

[breederforlife]

Here is the picture i just took. What can i do about it?

 

[reeferstace]

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2007/10/aafeature1

From the article...
"Treatment
It is crucial to begin treatment early before this parasite invades internal organs. Early stages of infection may be controlled with freshwater or formalin dips (Basiola and Gratzek,1992.). Some success has been reported with nitrofurazone and methylene blue (Chueng et al., 1980. Bassleer, 1983). Experimental treatments with anti-malaria drugs such as chloroquine and quinacrine hold some promise. Hydrogen peroxide can be effective against parasites on external surfaces, but it is not well tolerated by some fish. Systemic infections have a poor prognosis. Secondary bacterial infection is common. It may be wise to follow formalin or freshwater dips with a course of nitrofurazone treatment."

 

[HumbleFish]

That looks like Uronema - although after looking more closely at the pic, injury or bacterial infection isn't entirely out of the question either. Standard treatment for Uronema is copper (i.e. Cupramine, Coppersafe) or chloroquine phosphate (in a QT). But to be honest, most fish don't survive Uronema. And being it's a parasite, it can very likely spread to your other fish.