Flukes, Velvet or ? HELP ME PLZ

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I have a Blue Throat Trigger, Arc Eye Hawk, Porcupine, Lionfish, and a 9" snowflake eel in my 120g FOWLR tank.

My trigger started to show ich-like dots, but smaller, on his body right after a kole tang died in the tank. 2 days ago I saw something on both of his eyes which looked like flukes.

My Porcupine puffer also showed the dots, but they were smaller than ich so I figured he had Velvet.

So yesterday night I dosed the tank with ICH-X and PraziPRO for the treatment of velvet and flukes. 30mins after I dosed the medicine, the flukes fell right off the trigger's eyes, his eye was looking good and everything was looking good so I went to bed happy.

I wake up this morning to find both my puffer's eyes are cloudy. My lion's left eye is cloudy. SFE and Hawkfish is fine.

My trigger looks like he had it worst, he lost some color on his body. It looks like his color peeled right off and it is showing some browinsh color. Is this because of the flukes? since the flukes were hosting his body, were they eating his body? The medication made the flukes fell right off his body is that why he color is lost where the fluke were hosting on the body?

Please help me, I'm not sure what disease my fishes have.
 
The eyes are probably now infected with a secondary bacterial infection. You should qurantine the fish and treat with Furan2 for 7-10days.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11846645#post11846645 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Percula9
The eyes are probably now infected with a secondary bacterial infection. You should qurantine the fish and treat with Furan2 for 7-10days.

I tend to agree. Also, you should not be dosing two different meds at the same time, I believe it even says that on the back of the Prazi-pro; you may be dealing with fish that are in a daze from all the meds you dosed.

Also, that is a heavy bioload for a 120. This can be an ongoing issue in the future.

I would let the prazi work for at least another day or two (technically the treatment is supposed to be 5 days, you can redose after three). Then I would treat with anti-biotics. Good luck.
 
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