Chelmon Marginalis Needs Help!!

[IndeliblyInkd]

Hello all. And thank you in advance for who ever can help me. I recently within approx a week purchased this wonderful Butterfly. I aclimated him over several hours very slow and took my time trying to assure his health as he joined my tank.

Above you can see those red spots on his body. They appear to be lacerations. What are they can anybody please please help me.

His tank mates are: (2) clown fish, A bi-color blennny, a watchman goby, and a leopard wrasse. Cleaner shrimp and fire shrimp.

140 gallon tank.
Tank values:

1.024-1.025 sg
Temp 77 degrees
Phosphate almost un measureable
nitrate and nitrite under 5ppm
calcium 420
Ammonia under 5 ppm

He stays pretty stationary and seems to hide all the time. Also it wasnt harvested with cyanide because when I paid for it I paid more to get it from Australia. Please respond back asap

 

[b0bab0ey]

What you've got going on here looks somewhat similar to what was discussed in this thread:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2152562

It's also possible that it's just cuts. Is the fish in a DT or QT? Can you move the fish into a QT for treatment, if needed?

Edit: Just noticed you said that your "Ammonia under 5 ppm". What's up with that?! Should be 0 or unmeasurable. Ammonia is a fast fish killer.

 

[Dr Colliebreath]

Ammonia and nitrites should not be detectable, as boba says. Please recheck and indicate what test kit you are using.

Is the fish eating? If not, try mysis and live blackworms.

It sounds like the fish went right into your dt, right? Does it have good places to hide while it settles in and gets used to aquarium life?

Several hours is too long to acclimation a fish. Absent unusual circumstances, one hour is plenty.

Where did you buy the fish?

If it is just a cut, wait to see if it heals. If it gets redder and swells or is internal, it may be a bacterial problem requiring antibiotics.

You should use a quarantine tank to protect your other fish against a new fish bringing in diseases.