Help w/ Fish Parasite. Please ID.

[clockwurk]

Found this little guy dead today. He had this for a couple of days, but it didn't look this bad. Maybe 2-3. I thought it was a damaged scale, so I didn't think much of it.

I didn't realize it was alive until I took the fish out of the tank. They moved slightly. I put the fish in freshwater ( it was already dead ) and within 30 seconds, the white jelly like thing fell off dead.

I don't have any other fish in the tank at the moment, so I'm not too concerned. But i would like to add a fish sometime soon without fear of this parasite.

If anyone knows what this is, please ID and inform me a treatment.

Thanks in advance.

 

[nivram]

Some kind of fluke?

 

[clockwurk]

Thx. Yup, confirmed its flukes.

 

[Bret61081]

Prazi Pro works great and is reef safe

 

[clockwurk]

Thx Bret. Yeah, just ordered it to keep it handy. Luckily I only had one fish, so I think I will starve the flukes but not adding livestock for a month or more. I'm also adding 2 cleaner shrimps and maybe a pair of neon gobies. Hopefully that will clean my tank without chemicals before I add livestock again.

Worse case, I'll use PraziPro.

 

[billsreef]

I wouldn't add the neon gobies just yet, they can get infected themselves The cleaner shrimp are good, they will eat those suckers The most common flukes we see in our tanks are livebearers and have a pretty short life cycle. So a month without fish will typically starve them right out. Even if it's one of the egg laying species, they eggs typically hatch within a week, so a month without fish will starve them out.

 

[clockwurk]

Sounds great! Thx Bill

 

[betamed]

I always treat new fish with prazi. Yould be suprized how often they come in with internal paracytes.

 

[clockwurk]

Lesson learned. Starting a 10g hospital tank now.