Diamond Goby Tail infection, disease???

[kayaaandjaden]

Hi,
We bought a diamond goby 5 days ago. After being in the tank a few minutes, I noticed that his tail looked as if it had been nipped at, the top half was missing. I figured it was some of his past roommates at the LFS, so I wrote if off as astectics, seeing as he was already gobbling up and cleaning our sand. He totally cleaned our sand bed in 48 hours, built himself a burrow and was eating at feedings. Yesterday, I noticed his tail looked a lot worse. None of our fish have been bothering him. Then today, it is totally gone and now it looks as if sometype of infection is rotting its way up his tail.
I don't know what to do. He is still alive, but can't last for long like that. I don't want to take him out of the tank, thus killing him, but then if he does have sometype of infection, he probably doesn't need to be in the tank with everyone else.
What should I do?
Is death inevitable?
-Kaya

 

[hansonfam]

Sounds like fin rot and it is treatable. He needs to be moved out of there and treated with something like Mardels Maracyn.

Alll will be good if he is treated for it.

Good luck
Lisa

 

[kayaaandjaden]

He died.
I took him out this morning. His tail was totally gone and whatever it was had begun to "eat" up into his body. Not much but enough to tel, had he been able to survive it, he would have been have the size in a matter of days.
PROBLEM! Now our coral beauty is losing his fin! I didn't notice a thing yesterday and now today, half of one of his side fins is missing! Could fin rot spread that quickly, and to another fish?
-k

 

[hansonfam]

I believe it can spread. I would get the angel out asap and start treatment like yesterday
And whoever else is in that tank i would treat them all.
Quarintine them all. Do you have a hospital tank?
If not you are going to have to make one quick like. Use a large rubbermaid container. Get a cheap hang on back filter. Take the carbon out of it. Have some amaquel on hand and fill up the quaritnine with your tank water and get ready to test regualrily and water changes daily as the hospital tank is not cycled. Just keep up on everything and you should be okay.

Hope that helps and i am sorry about you fish.

Lisa

 

[kayaaandjaden]

The angel, blenny and chromis are out and in QT, we are treating them with Maracyn II. We bought both I and II, but the disease chart inside indicated to use II. Our LFS guy said to use I, but....we bought both just in case, and are tryin II first. We also bought a product called Rallly's to treat the tank. We left our Mandarin in the main tank, to avoid losing him. If he starts showing signs we will pull him out and try QT'ing him too, i guess. But for right now,
I think he has a better chance in the main tank. Anyone feel we are going about this all wrong?
-k

 

[hansonfam]

Hey there

I think you are going about it all right. Mandarins are very hardy when it comes to disease and will probably starve to death if you put him in the quarintine unless he is eating frozen foods?
Just cross your fingers. And the meds just use what works...lol
The Rally is use less. But everyones gotta try it.
And do you have corals in there as this i have read on this forum has had negative results on corals.

Lisa

 

[kayaaandjaden]

I have some zoas, a gorgonia (avepora), a few ricordea, 2 large feather dusters, hermits, snails...and then the fish.
"And do you have corals in there as this i have read on this forum has had negative results on corals."
The Rallys had negative results, or the Maracyn?
-kaya

 

[hansonfam]

The Rallys. There was a thread somewhere on here about someone who did a "study" per say about the affects of numerous "reef safe" products and rally was one of them. I am sure if you hit the search button tommorrow morning as i have just tried and can't get on there than you would probably find the thread. By all means try it but just relize that not everything they say is reef safe. If it is just fin rot than there is no need to treat you main tank with anything. My fish have had it and i put them back in the main display with no issues.

Lisa

 

[kayaaandjaden]

Too late....We dosed it last night. I did an internet search and couldn't find anything in regards to bad reviews on the stuff(not to say they AREN'T out there, I just didn't find them), so I went ahead and did it.
So, maybe instead of dosing it again in three days, we will just leave it be. Our QT is small, so I have to get ready for a water change later on. Thanks for all your help. I will make sure to post the progress, and -hopefully- that there were no effects from the Rally product.
Thanks

 

[hansonfam]

Thats just it. What one person says doesn't always apply to everyone
God luck and i do hope everyone makes it okay. And please let me know how it all works out.

Lisa