Help on diagnosis.

[itz frank]

Fish has been in my tank for a week. UnQT'd. I know. Stupid. Getting my stuff together for hospital. What's this guy got? Or is it just him scratching when he burrows?

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[Dkuhlmann]

Honestly it looks like sand to me, but on the other hand Midas Blennies do not burrow in the sand, they make their home in holes in the LR.

Does this stay on him all of the time or does it come off? Do you have any other fish in your tank and if so do they have this too?

 

[itz frank]

Honestly it looks like sand to me, but on the other hand Midas Blennies do not burrow in the sand, they make their home in holes in the LR.



Does this stay on him all of the time or does it come off? Do you have any other fish in your tank and if so do they have this too?

No one else is the tank had this. It did look like he had something similar a few days ago. I've seen him scratch once. As of yesterday, he was ferociously eating. I've been feeding the fish out of my aqua medic fish trap to get them use to it incase I have to catch them.


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[Dkuhlmann]

Personally I wouldn't worry about it too much. I would go ahead and run two rounds of PraziPro which will kill internal parasites as well as ones on the skin and in the gills. It's totally 100% reef safe so you can treat your DT with it and not harm anything. I've used it to get rid of some pesky flukes and had to triple dose it and still didn't hurt anything in my tank.

It's a good idea to dose Prazipro 2-3x a year anyway to make sure your fish stay free of any internal parasites.

 

[itz frank]

Ok. I'll order prazi anyways since I need it for QT and TTM for incoming fish. This way, I have it on hand incase I do need to pull everyone.

 

[itz frank]

Could this be marine velvet?


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