Need Some Help With Fish ID

ReefJunkie01

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Hey Guys,

I visited a fish store about 1 1/2 hours away from me today to check out the place. Looked like there was some kind of breakout of something in their fish tanks because nearly all of their saltwater tanks were empty and the ones that weren't either had one fish which was dead or the fish had some kind of parasite. A couple of the tanks looked very healthy, but looks like something took hold on majority of their tanks, either that or they basically sold out.

Found an anthias there that looked severely stressed and out in a tank with another dead fish. Looking at the tank I figured the fish was probably going to die there, so picked it up to try and save it (yes a foolish move, I know, but I have a soft spot for trying to rescue some of these guys, this is the 4th fish in the last year I've taken from the LFS, got back into decent shape, and turned back into another LFS I trust).

The sales person was really nice, but, when they told me this fish was a weitei anthias, I figured I was on my own to figure out what it is.

Fish is in a quarantine tank right now, but, trying to figure out what it is. So far I've narrowed it down to either a female tuka, a female bartlett or a female dispar. I'm shying away from it being a tuka though, as, compared to the tuka I already have, the yellow line on this fish seems a lot thicker. Can someone help with this? Pics attached below.
 

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Need Some Help With Fish ID

This book might be outdated but it looks a bit like this maybe !?
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Then again now that they are side by side it seems like the taira has pinkish longer first dorsal rays and yours doesn't, also it doesn't look as "striped"...

Lol sometimes when a first person gives an answer it gets the ball rolling...
Good luck
 
Thanks ginpang, it does look a lot like the taira in your picture. This morning when I saw it the top dorsal fin has gotten very red (when the dorsal fin is down it looks bright red).

Fighting a bigger problem at the moment. When I had gotten the fish it had a wide white mark on its left side (saw the mark while it was still in the bag). Now the vertical white mark is blood red (guessing a bruise it got yesterday). Checked water and its 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and 10ppm nitrate (using water from my display tank for this fish in the quarantine tank because the ph of my dt is 8.2 while the fresh rodi water I use for salt mixing is about 7.7 after mixing).
The fish had been a little curved to its right side since this morning, as I'm sitting here writing this the fish is on its side at the bottom of the tank slowly breathing.

Doesn't look good
 
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Ok, never mind, fish just died.

Pic of the bruise I had mentioned in last post attached.
 

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Eww ,looks like septicemia or tuberculosis...
I would treat the qt or empty ,disinfect , throw all the filter media and start over ...
No wonder the lfs looked like a war zone.
 
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