Coral Beauty slowly decaying

[Thee_Mr_Sir]

New to the forums,
I recently just bought my first fish. Well i bought 2, a Coral Beauty along with a Bi color angle. Ive never seen them fight or attack one another. The last week and a half, parts of my CB have turned white, along the dorsal fin, and a large spot in the middle of its side. They are not small specs of salt or sugar like "Ich" normally would look like scattered around the fish. Ive contacted my local pet store owners the only imput ive recieved is either a fungus or a Ich. The past couple days the white spot has turned into a large chunk of scale or flesh missing, and i can now see the spines or the dorsal fins. The fish acts normal. Since then ive added a medium sized cleaner shrimp an emerald crab and a dozen or so snails

 

[kegogut]

Seems like you need to take out the fish,put it in a QT and start some treatment. What you describe doesnt seem like ich to me but rather something else. Although Im not sure what. I hope someone else will chime in with better knowledge on illnesses.

 

[kegogut]

Also you might try posting your problem in the fish disease forums,you might get a better response.

 

[thegrun]

Sounds more like fin rot, a bacteria issue.