GPSReef
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I have a Line Spot flasher wrasse who's been great in my tank, very active beautiful fish. So today I noticed some sort of wound on the side of his body about half way between head and tail. The best way I can describe it is a slightly raised bump about the size of pencil eraser with a small pinhole/puncture hole looking thing in the middle. Today is the first day I've noticed it so it appeared pretty quickly.
My thought is I have a spiny urchin hitchhiker and I see my flashers usually go into my rocks at night so maybe he just got poked which would describe the pinhole and inflammation around it. If this were the case would there be anything I could do to help prevent the wound from getting infected?
I'm not sure if it's some infection or parasite I've never come across though. Are there any fish diseases that have this symptom (my research hasn't found anything)? I did qt the fish for 7 weeks mostly just observation with 2 treatments of prazi as a prophylactic and no issues.
My thought is I have a spiny urchin hitchhiker and I see my flashers usually go into my rocks at night so maybe he just got poked which would describe the pinhole and inflammation around it. If this were the case would there be anything I could do to help prevent the wound from getting infected?
I'm not sure if it's some infection or parasite I've never come across though. Are there any fish diseases that have this symptom (my research hasn't found anything)? I did qt the fish for 7 weeks mostly just observation with 2 treatments of prazi as a prophylactic and no issues.
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