This newbie needs some advice and I hope this is the right place to post. I've had a Coral Beauty in my display tank with two skunk shrimp for a month. He started showing signs of lymph by a white cauliflower bunch on his upper fin. Then a small one on his right fin. No changes in these two for a long while. Yesterday I purchased 2 snowflake clownfish.Now this experience was incredible. It was a warehouse in Madison where they breed exotic of clowns. The place was well cared for and I was impressed with their standards. I seen thousands! Anyway, now the clowns are in QT, all going great. Murphy's law: Today the beauty has a new spot on its side of the body (clumpy like cauliflower too, he's in the display tank where nothing has changed). So, should I swap the clowns to the DT and the Beauty to QT to treat? Now if it is lymphocytis it's just vitamins and such? Will that show up on the body too? Or am I seeing ich? Water parameters are stellar, with 2 different tests. 1.024, ph 8.1, temp 78, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate <5. Currently trying to get a pic
Murphy's law Coral Beauty
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GimpyFin
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There really isn't a silver bullet cure for lympho (Which just by your description sounds correct.) Good water quality and keeping the fish healthy are the best bets to get it to dissipate. Another option (For fins) is removing the fish, laying it on some damp paper towels, and carefully scraping it out with a razor blade. The fins will grow back just fine.
scooter31707
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+1..also you can soak it's food in some Selcon or Vitachem to help aid with the healing process.
I'd keep everybody where they are. You might feed food soaked in Selcon to help out the angel, if he'll take it. That will be about as good as you can do for the angel. He'll live or he'll die. Leave the clowns in qt for a couple of weeks after the situation with the angel has resolved itself one way or another.
+1 Don't stress out your Coral Beauty anymore than needed unless the growths are preventing it from eating or blocking both gills. Something I've never seen in 30 years. Lymphocystis can take 3-6 months to dissappear but I've never known it to kill a fish. It's also by definition a viral infection and is contagious But I've never seen it spread in a system. Be sure you're feeding your fish a quality diet and dwarf angels are grazers so small multiple feedings are better than once a day.
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