Hello,
Four days ago, I bought a pair of Banggai Cardinalfish. The two fish stay close most of the time and I haven't seen any signs of aggression. Yesterday, I noticed one of the fish was acting "lazy" and hiding behind the outlet of the HOB filter. I then noticed a white spot about the size of a grain of sand on one of it's fins. He was still eating but not very aggressively. I looked up a bunch of pics and disease threads and believe it was lymphocystis.
Today he looks bad. Laying on his side on the bottom of the tank and I noticed there is red coloration under his skin. Shown in picture below. The white spot is now gone and part of his fin is missing (where the spot was). I am not sure if there are any more spots. He is now breathing hard too.
The other fish seems fine (just a little shy) as he is eating well and swimming around somewhat.
They are in a 20 gallon bare bottom tank with various pieces of pvc that was washed under warm tap water, then washed with ro/di water and placed in tank. The tank has a heater set to 79%, salinity is 1.023 measured with a refractometer. No noticeable ammonia. Filter is a penguin 280 (with biowheel) with carbon, which was running on my DT for about 5 days prior to getting the fish. I am also running a remora protein skimmer. I have been doing 20% water changes daily.
I really don't know what if anything I can do. I've never come across anything like this. Any ideas? suggestions? anything?
Thanks a lot in advance.
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Four days ago, I bought a pair of Banggai Cardinalfish. The two fish stay close most of the time and I haven't seen any signs of aggression. Yesterday, I noticed one of the fish was acting "lazy" and hiding behind the outlet of the HOB filter. I then noticed a white spot about the size of a grain of sand on one of it's fins. He was still eating but not very aggressively. I looked up a bunch of pics and disease threads and believe it was lymphocystis.
Today he looks bad. Laying on his side on the bottom of the tank and I noticed there is red coloration under his skin. Shown in picture below. The white spot is now gone and part of his fin is missing (where the spot was). I am not sure if there are any more spots. He is now breathing hard too.
The other fish seems fine (just a little shy) as he is eating well and swimming around somewhat.
They are in a 20 gallon bare bottom tank with various pieces of pvc that was washed under warm tap water, then washed with ro/di water and placed in tank. The tank has a heater set to 79%, salinity is 1.023 measured with a refractometer. No noticeable ammonia. Filter is a penguin 280 (with biowheel) with carbon, which was running on my DT for about 5 days prior to getting the fish. I am also running a remora protein skimmer. I have been doing 20% water changes daily.
I really don't know what if anything I can do. I've never come across anything like this. Any ideas? suggestions? anything?
Thanks a lot in advance.
having a hard time inserting pics. here's the links.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/album.php?albumid=691&pictureid=3827
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/album.php?albumid=691&pictureid=3828
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