chocolate tang with... ¿¿mouth rot...??

[gumbii]

my juvenile chocolate tang today looks beat up from the mouth... his mouth is all tore up... red, with white stuff hanging off of it... i know there's mouth rott in freshwater... but i don't know what to do in this case... i have an anemone and some soft corals... so i don't know what to do...

what are some steps...? raise the salt... lol...


any help will be greatly apreciated...

 

[limitdown]

Likely a bacterial infection. Fungus infections are extremely rare in marine environments.
If you can, move him into a quarantine tank and put in some antibiotics like Minocycline or Tetracycline. I also like feeding medicated food at the same time.

 

[gumbii]

damn... looks like he's going to go back to the LFS... i don't have a quarantine tank for SW yet...

can i treat the entire tank..? or is it going to destroy all of the invertibrae...?

 

[limitdown]

Minocycline (Maracyn 2) is safe for your biological filter and also invertebrates so you can treat your tank directly.
However, I highly recommend getting a cheap 10 gallon tank as a QT.

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