Parasite or fish food?

[jaybfresh]

After a freshwater dip, my wrasse slimed up. I sucked the slime out of the QT tank and noticed this mixed in. I feed Rods Food so maybe this is the head of a chopped up critter, but I try to suck up anything that's left over.

 

[snorvich]

Why did you perform a fresh water dip? Suspected flukes?

 

[jaybfresh]

Why did you perform a fresh water dip? Suspected flukes?

A couple members here suggested he was suffering from Uronema marinum. I had no appropriate medication at the time.

 

[ThRoewer]

Hard to say without a size reference but to me it looks like the eyes of a crustacean like a shrimp or Mysis.

But there are crustacean parasites that feed on fish and can cause bloody wounds that may look like a uronema infection. A long enough freshwater bath could cause them to drop off.