Fin Rot?

[TheGMan]

I did do as much research as possible without search function being avialable, so please no flaming ...

Yesterday I received a fish order from saltwaterfish.com. A Blackback Butterfly Fish, a Juv Emperor Angel, and a Blue Chin Tigger. I placed them in my newly cycled 125g. All seemed to drip acclimated fine. I have only observed the Angel fish actually eat yet ... After inspection today ... all three seem to have some type of aliment.

Emperor and Trigger both seem to have some type of fin rot ... pictures below.

The Butterfly has a small body surface blemish that is barely noticable and didn't show in a photo.

Both the Butterfly and the Emp have one or two very small white dots on their tail fin. No white dots (i.e. Ich) on any part of any of the fishes bodies.

Any help on treatment would be VERY much appreciated.

Thanks, Greg

 

[TheGMan]

Sorry ... all water params in the excellent range and the tank also has some snails and hermits, but no live rock.

 

[TerryB]

Where the fish shipped in too little water. I have seen damage like that on fish that were shipped in too little water and the fins were exposed.

Terry B

 

[TheGMan]

Thanks for the reply, but nope ... they were fully submerged, and packaged quite nicely I might add.

Shipped at 4:00pm Monday started acclimation at 10:30 Tuesday.

 

[TerryB]

Could have been a lot of bacteria on the net that they used to catch them and place them in the bag. Might be best to treat them in quarantine with Furanase, Nitrofurazone, Maracyn-Two or Neomycin. Neomycin is good but it will wipe out the biofilter. Watch carefully to see if it is getting worse or spreading on the fins.

Terry B

 

[TheGMan]

Unfortunately I have no quarantine tank. I do have a 10g laying around that I could use, but all fish seem to have some type of aliment. Is there something that I could use to treat my whole tank and safe for biological filtration?

It is definitely worse today, but it is contained to the same fins and the fish are otherwise acting normally.

 

[saltyfishy123]

I would use melafix you can add it to aquariums with corals, inverts and anemones and the fins should get better

 

[TerryB]

Nothing that will work. If there was an easy way that worked wouldn't everyone be using it?

Terry B

 

[zoiescout]

I used Maracyn-Two in my display tank to treat two clownfish with fin rot and had no problems. I didn't have a med tank at the time and needed to treat them immediately.