Fish has paraiste unknown...

[urville]

I have a Solar Fairy wrasse. On it are these little worms. Now I have exhaustively looked at ich picks this isnt that. Not dots, these look like clear/whitish flatworms. They move.

Any ideas? Or how to treat? I might have a ten gallon, assuming I can even get him out...

Maybe ich attack might work? herbal isnt it, and known to be reef safe? i believe its supposed to work on all external parasites?

any advice or help is good, cant get a photo I dont think, i;ll try... store closes in 45 minutes so... sorry for the sound of urgency

 

[urville]

It doesnt really show up in a photo... thier too clearish. It just shows as a lighter misshappen spot... they arent round...

I dont know... I cant possibly quarantine this many fish, my QT is only 15 gallons...

 

[Poisonus Yeti]

Is it only one fish that has these external parasites?

Try reading up on a Methylene Blue dip in fresh water. I think it is a safe way to rid your fish of external parasites such as this.

 

[urville]

No, I started looking and one of the clowns has them. The lawnmower its to hard to see, and my scooter also. The wrasse's are just super thin, still look the same, the clown has one thing on it... thats bigger like fat, looks sorta like a tiny white nudibranch. larger enough to be a grain of rice

 

[urville]

got some pics... i removed the clown and once in the air for even a second the thing came off... it is not the same thing that is on the wrasse... the wrasses are like paper thin... all these parasites in one day?!?!?!

sheesh

 

[NanoLurker]

the one in the picture looks like an isopod, possibly a parasitic isopod.

are the worms coming out the gills or other fish openings? hard to say without a picture but you can get a little general info on different worms here, might help you narrow down what you're dealing with http://www.wetwebmedia.com/parasiti.htm

 

[urville]

ok... no just seem to be piggybacking no damage up to this point

 

[urville]

Parasitic Isopods... and my coral beauty has one and he, unlike my tank raised clowns is not easy to catch, whats the worst case scenario if I cant catch him? Will the little thing kill him?

The wrasse... no one has good pictures... I guess it could maybe be monogenean... but thats at best a guess...

 

[KingDiamond]

Sounds like your wrasse has flukes. Flukes are very difficult to see on the surface of a fish with the naked eye. I have seen them (oddly enough) on the body of a wrasse while I was looking at it with a flashlight. If you can do freshwater dips on your fish. After the dips closely examine the dip water, sometimes you can see the flukes that have fallen off in the dip. Another treatment you can try is praziquantal.

 

[urville]

Yes.. in fact if he were a warmer colored fish like yellow or orange I may not have seen it, but being a solar wrasse he's that darker blue and I can see thier milkyness... ugh...

Luckily the wrasse is super smart and will willingly get in the net. Small story, but when I bought him he came in a shipping bag and i acclimated in a bucket which I no longer do for temperature reasons. But he was sluggish and cocoon-ey <sp?>... Anyway, after a really long acclimation because they are known to be so sensitive, I put the net in very ready to have a chase, but i stuck it in, he looked at it, and swam right in.

ok... well... even without positive ID the results look the same.... Fresh dip... I am NOT looking forward to this. It's one of those things I can just tell...