bug, sting, somthing..SOMTHING is on my maroons eye!!! please help

[TOURKID]

Ive posted this in the disease forum already, but Im totally paiced and upset.
Hoping for some advice, suggestions, guesses, whatever!!!

I did my weekly water change today, and everything was great fish looked fine and ate fine.

I left for two hours and was about to miss feeding time when I got home. I took a peek at the tank, then went into the kitchen. While I was feeding her she looked fine (dident notice anything weird) I walked away to feed my baby maroon thats in qt, then walked back to gaze at the tank.

Feebee (the fish) turned sideways and there is somthing ON her eyeball.
Its white/clear
about the size of a cocapod
She started rubbing her eye on anemone tenicles and the thing eventually started to kinda shed its skin or fall apart or somthing

She is acting very bothered by it

It wasent there when I fed and was a few minutes after. (fed mysis and emerald entree)

On a weird note, after I came back I saw 2 hermits tearing apart a moon polyp. Ive never seen them do somthing like this before. I assumed the polyp caught some mysis and the hermits wanted it. The polyp was releasing tons of slime tho. Could this slime sting my fishes eye?

Only other thing Im doing abnormaly is Im acclimating to a 250 watt bulb. Everything staied the same today but I lowered the light 2 links.

I saw a pic of a clown once with bugs all over it, but they looked like potato bugs and were brown. do these have color variations?

I dont have a QT right now, its being occupied by my baby maroon thats being treated for internal parasites.

Ill invest in a bunch more equipment if I can find a reson too. I need to identify this!! Im supposed to be leaving for 4 days on thurs. so Im really freaked out. Ill have a sitter... that I dont trust with meds.....

Heres a few pics.

tia
Maggie
*totally upset*

 

[dantodd]

Very possibly a parasite of some sort.

I'd start with a 15-20 minute freshwater bath. External parasites will often simply drop off due to osmotic shock when they get in the freshwater for 5 or 10 minutes.

Don't put the little guy in there until you are fairly sure what is happening.

 

[TOURKID]

hey dann... to bad you live so far away, i think we deserve a drink

i dont understand where the heck i would get a parasite from at this stage in the game. frozen food, or lfs r/o water...
ok so yeah.. enough already i need to save for the r/o maker.. its not even the cash so much as the trash cans bigger heaters un usable sink and do on... ugh. Its definatly never ending. no wonder i only have 1 fish .. now two of course but just the thought of qt and diseases has held me back... till i saw lil guy lol

I know its still a hobbie thats very misterious in some ways.. but ive noticed.. being a newbie and all... that diseases are not easy to find info on, and finding the right meds is even harder. and I donno.. Id like to see a really great disease book published, and a line of products with great directions and clear on what they cure. think Ill have that drink now.. and taking my own advice on the petsmart tanks

 

[MarinaP]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7411358#post7411358 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dantodd
Very possibly a parasite of some sort.

I'd start with a 15-20 minute freshwater bath.

I agree.

 

[TOURKID]

ok. i took a flashlight and peeked. its gone. i cant tell if the area is irritated or not. should i wait and see if another one pops up, or just give her a bath? after the bath, can i put her back in the reef?

Im reading on flukes right now. havent found pictures just yet.

Still dont understand where it would have come from

But i assume the anemone could sting it off... *bugged*

 

[MarinaP]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7411651#post7411651 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TOURKID
should i wait and see if another one pops up, or just give her a bath?

I would wait, maybe it was just a minor scratch.

 

[TOURKID]

it def wasent a sratch. it was on her eye ball, right above where the skin meets the clear eye ball. it was above the skin like a bump, and i donno if i saw it right away or not but the more sshe rubbed the anemone it began to have lil pieces fall off. ill know more in the morning. but if there are parasites and they are 'knocked' off that quickly, i may be missing some. going to have to have a stareing session in the morning.... looks like flukes stay in the tank 4 to 6 weeks....

it really did look like a bug.....

 

[dantodd]

anything is possible (unfortunately) so I'd wait as Marina said. FW dips won't prevent parasites from attacking her it will just kill any that are on her at the time. So, if it dropped off dipping will do nothing.

Like you said it's tough getting medical treatment and also difficult to diagnose fish at home. With the cost of the average organism being less than a co-pay it can be hard to find a fish-vet.

 

[MarinaP]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7411809#post7411809 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dantodd
With the cost of the average organism being less than a co-pay it can be hard to find a fish-vet.

Agreed, and still here is a link to a great fish vet/lab website

(Thanks, Steven )

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=830975

 

[TOURKID]

thats funny, last time she had a bacteria infection and i looked thru the phone books and online couldent find one. but i donno, with the attachment that we form over these fish, im sure many would pay for the vet fees i totally would!!

 

[Sk8r]

You might install a cleaner shrimp, if she gets into it again. If she's having mucus reactions to something she puts her nose into, it might at least remove the nuisance.

 

[Azurel]

I have read in my Anemone Fishes and their Host Sea Anemones book that Clownfish do and will use the tenticles of the anemone to clean their skiand help keep them free of parisites and stuff. So she could have actully got rid of it by the anemone stinging it.
Good luck with it.

 

[Morgman]

Did it look like a flaten crab? If so check out isopods.

 

[TOURKID]

how big is that fish, and how big is that pod? thats the kind of picture i saw before. the one on my fish was white though. I have to run but ill research isopod when i get home.

I have a blood shrimp. he tried like hell to clean her the first few weeks, but they have no relationship, i think the shrimp has given up. I never see it try anymore.

 

[dantodd]

Maggie, isopods come in all sizes. They can be as small as what feebee had on her to this:

I've even seen some pictures of bigger isopods.

 

[Azurel]

That is nasty.....Looks like an alien.

 

[TOURKID]

that is really gross. Ive kept an eye on her and shes eatting fine and acting normal. I dont have any other fish in the tank, so its hard to see whats going on with the anemone all around her.

I read lastnight flukes are smaller than what we can see, so im ruling that out. Im going to look up some isopod stuff for now, I need to decide weather my tank is safe or not... in 2 weeks i would like to add my baby maroon...

 

[stykthyn]

is that a facehugger?? it's too bad that cleaner wrasse have such a poor lifespan in our tanks, one of those would be perfect.