Lazylivin
Premium Member
Hi all, hoping to get some assistance with identifying the disease on my Moorish Idol.
I received the fish on 11/21/2011. (26 days ago). I immediately placed the fish in hypo-salinity at 1.008 Salinity. The fish had no sign of sickness, I just do it as a precaution. Anyway as with most Idol's it took about 5 days to start eating. It is eating with increasing enthusiasm every day. It's gut is starting to fill out nicely. There is however what looked initially like ich and has developed into something more. It started off with some spots that looked to be under the skin and has increased in size to what is now outside of the skin. The first ones have gotten larger and looks like cauliflower. The fish has never once rubbed/scratched or shown any sign of stress. I took some pictures tonight (attached) and the larger ones that looked like cauliflower almost looks like a grouping of small eggs. Let me know if you have an idea of what this is so I can appropriately treat. Picture 3 parasite on the fin seems to be different then all the rest. It looks like cotton.
I received the fish on 11/21/2011. (26 days ago). I immediately placed the fish in hypo-salinity at 1.008 Salinity. The fish had no sign of sickness, I just do it as a precaution. Anyway as with most Idol's it took about 5 days to start eating. It is eating with increasing enthusiasm every day. It's gut is starting to fill out nicely. There is however what looked initially like ich and has developed into something more. It started off with some spots that looked to be under the skin and has increased in size to what is now outside of the skin. The first ones have gotten larger and looks like cauliflower. The fish has never once rubbed/scratched or shown any sign of stress. I took some pictures tonight (attached) and the larger ones that looked like cauliflower almost looks like a grouping of small eggs. Let me know if you have an idea of what this is so I can appropriately treat. Picture 3 parasite on the fin seems to be different then all the rest. It looks like cotton.
