Green Mandarin w/ white on pelvic fins

[chefthomasr]

Our green mandarin suddenly has white areas on his pelvic fins. Perhaps Lymphocyctis virus? Can any ID this disease and tell me an appropriate treatment?

I haven't posted pics before so hopefully these look ok. Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[chefthomasr]

I checked our water again this morning.
specific gravity 1.025
ammonia 0
nitrates 5
calcium 450
dKh 11
phosphates 0
temp 80

Other tank inhabitants: Yellow Tang, firefish, 8 chromis, coral beauty, lawnmower blenny, 2 watchmen, 2 jawfish, cleaner goby

inverts: 2 longspined urchins, 2 flame scallops, torch coral, hammer coral, galaxy coral, toadstool, yellow polyps, zoos, shrooms, the usual snails, hermits, bristle stars, cleaner shrimp

We culture pods to make sure he has plenty to eat. No change in behavior, I haven't seen anyone picking on him.

Any ideas?

 

[chefthomasr]

no one has any ideas?

 

[jhornik]

Well it's not ich, Mandrins are immune to ich, but it could be as simple as just some sand residue on his fins. Mine looks like that quite often and it's usually just sand sticking to the mucus they have on there body that protects them from ich. Plus they burry themselves in the sand to sleep so that could be where the sand residue is coming from.

 

[chefthomasr]

Thank you so much for easing my mind.

 

[flameangel88]

I read somewhere that Mandarins are pretty much immue to ich due to their slime skin coating. Couple of days ago I saw one of mine Mandarin had small white patches on her fins but it was gone later that night. If it persist then you may have a problem.

btw--what are you feeding your Mandarin? I supplement with Tigger Pods once a month and they eat frozen food too.

 

[chefthomasr]

Thanks for the info.

I have a culture station where I keep the tigger pod population up. I was trying to grow the population in my refugium but it didn't seem to be working out that great.

Each week I put about half the population in my display. Ours doesn't seem to be in the least bit interested in frozen food.