Help growths on green bta

[Arf82]

Hi I bought this green bta around 2 weeks ago, everything was fine until two days ago he went down into the rock work. I got him out this afternoon and put him in a plastic box in the tank and as you can see from pic he is small and shrivelled with growth like bits on him. Can anybody please let me know what they think is wrong with him.
All parameters are in check
0 phos
0 nitrates
Salinity 1.026
Tanks just over a year old.
Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance

 

[duyhuynh]

Have you treated the gig with cipro?

 

[Arf82]

It has moved and where his mouth is I can see straight through him.

 

[Arf82]

Sorry not sure what that means...?

 

[raythepilot]

I think duyhuynh is confused. You do not have a Gig.

I've been keeping BTA for a long time and I've never seen growth like that.
When BTA invert like yours it usually means that the water is bad or they have nem decline ( a bacteria infection).
If the nem recovers and then cycles back to bad it most likely has nem decline and you need to treat it for the infection. There is a post up above that tells what to do.

I can only guess about the growth. They may be buds of new nems coming out. That is not necessarily a good thing as BTA frequently divide under stress.

Oh, by the way. They can get sick from food that is contaminated with bad bacteria. Did you feed it any raw or frozen sea food?

 

[NYCBOB]

If u can see right through the mouth, then that's not good. What corals or live stocks do u currently have? What is ur lighting?

 

[Arf82]

Thanks raythepilot and nycbob.
I've been feeding it frozen prawns and muscles. I have sps, softies and lps all doing great. I have tmc leds for my lighting.

 

[raythepilot]

In my early days I lost two BTA to frozen prawns.
BTA do not need to be fed lots or often. The food they really love is live black worms. MY LFS keeps them and I feed my nems these once a week.

 

[Arf82]

Thanks again raythepilot if he pulls through I will scrap the frozen seafood mix for black live worms. He looks a little better today but still see through him when mouth is open..

 

[WatDatThing]

I give mine a couple of mysis a week. Prawn and mussels seem like an over kill. I can see feeding a carpet Nem that because they are huge.

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[Arf82]

I don't feed it a whole prawn or muscle, just a little bit of one.

 

[fishkeeprian]

To me that looks like it has a tear in its foot and that is actually like tissue has leaked from inside the foot.

The foot is eaisly damaged when removing from items they are attached to.