Coral beauty Sick - how do i treat

[DanDiaz]

I recently got this CB and he was doing fine the first few days in the QT tank and then all of a sudden started showing signs on stress and now has cloudy eyes and what looks like fin rot,

I have been doing 25% water changes daily and been feeding my normal mixture of frozen brine, flakes and frozen reef mix,

i do have a school of 5 green blue chromis that permanetly live in the QT tank, theres been no aggresion or signs of fighting opr bullying.

today he hasnt been eating and one of his fins is quite bad, am i too late on intorducting medication? if not what should i dose

I generally leave the fish for 2 weeks without medication and then begin doing metroplex and Prazipro before then leaving another 2 weeks post QT in the system and then moving them to my display tank.

QT tank is a 60 gallon tank ( 230Ltrs)

 

[griss]

@leebca and @Dr. Reef Will most likely want a short (1 minute) video of the fish under white light showing both sides of the fish if possible to help in their diagnosis. You can upload the video to Youtube and post a link here.

 

[Dr. Reef]

cloudy eyes normally refer to flukes. You can give this fish a freshwater bath in a dark bowl. If you see small potato chip like things fall off the fish, its infected with flukes. You will need to treat the fish and the entire tank with prazi, Instructions are on the bottle. If i remember correctly its 1/2 tea spoon for very 20 gal. You dose it once, then let the tank run normal for 5 days. After 5 days do a 25% water change and then dose second time again and run 5 more days. hopefully that solves the problem.

 

[leebca]

I recently got this CB and he was doing fine the first few days in the QT tank and then all of a sudden started showing signs on stress and now has cloudy eyes and what looks like fin rot,

I have been doing 25% water changes daily and been feeding my normal mixture of frozen brine, flakes and frozen reef mix,

i do have a school of 5 green blue chromis that permanetly live in the QT tank, theres been no aggresion or signs of fighting opr bullying.

today he hasnt been eating and one of his fins is quite bad, am i too late on intorducting medication? if not what should i dose

I generally leave the fish for 2 weeks without medication and then begin doing metroplex and Prazipro before then leaving another 2 weeks post QT in the system and then moving them to my display tank.

QT tank is a 60 gallon tank ( 230Ltrs)

Your QT procedure is pretty good. I would just not wait the 2 weeks to begin the prophylactic treatment.

Brine shrimp are not very nutritious. Download then read, the Fish Nutrition document. In the future if your fish seems to be under stress and still eating: Help the fish by improving its immunity and ability to heal wounds by adding supplements for an ill fish to its diet as recommended in the Fish Nutrition document. Use especially Beta-1,3/1,6-D-Glucan found online, in health-food stores, and pharmacies. Directions for its use and quantity are provided in the link.

Cloudy eyes can be from a number of problems. But when accompanied by fin rot it is usually a bacterial infection. Most bacterial infections are from Gram Positive bacteria. But there are Gram Negative bacteria too. There are many fish antibiotics available on the market. Furan-2, Maracyn (which is Erythromycin that is good vs. Gram Positive bacteria), Nitrofuracin Green (NFG), Nitrofurazone (for both Gram Neg and Gram Pos). The choice of which to use is ideally to choose the one that attacks the specific bacteria the fish contracted. Identification of the bacteria is best done by microscope and staining which isn't something the usual hobbyist is able to do.

Eye flukes have this general appearance: