Percula with bubble on chin

Terry,
Note that your article implies that "Turbellarian" is a genus when it is really a class of flatworms (Class Turbellaria).
 
Okay, treatment is over, today is the end of Day 6, and I still can see a little bit of the bump on her chin.

Is the next step to buy Formalin for a dip treatment? What is the best option? She's still eating well, but kinda shy/lonely in Sickbay.
 
ATJ,
Thanks for pointing that out, but people usually lump all the tubellarium worms together although it does contain more than one species. I am sure that you are going to have fun critiquing my series on Cryptocaryon irritans that will appear in the near future.
;)
Terry B
 
No, I was just studying her in Sickbay, and I still see the dot, but it is smaller. It is very hard to see now, and I'm almost certain it is orange like the rest of the clownfish's chin.

I'll head up to the LFS to get some Formalin later this afternoon.
 
If the lump is now taking on the coloration of the fish that would lead be to believe that it is lymphocystis. If the lesion is changing to the color of the fish and getting smaller then I would not use the formalin dip, because it sounds like the fish may be healing.
Terry B
 
Terry, do you recommend that I just keep the clownfish in this tank until I simply can't see any more sign of the original problem then? What type of time frame would I be looking at? I bought the Formalin, but didn't use it last night.
 
Here is the clownfish a few weeks later. As you can see, there is still a bump, but it is now the color of the fish. I had to go out of town, and put it back in the reef.

Sadly, the day I put it back in, its mate was gone, and it has been "roughing it" alone. I'll pick up a new friend for it in the near future, because the guy that raises them said he had another for me.

clown_with_bump.jpg
 
I would advise you read page one and follow those suggestions. My clownfish completely recovered and is still in my reef tank to this day.
 
this fish is only about 1 week or so old from the LFS. Do you think it could just be stress related? I was reading that article about formaldayde and it said not to use the formalin on newer fish. So I might give it another week or so.
 
Lymphocystis, from a hobbyist's POV is an infection. Typically it isn't lethal, but it can grow on the side of the fish's flesh like cotton. It can eventually just drop off the fish, like it did on my Copperband Butterfly that I had in quarantine for about 5 weeks.

The problem is if it grows around the mouth area. As it grows larger, it will block the fish from being able to catch any food. This happened with the fish mentioned in this thread. So I had to actually catch the fish, put it on the table, trim/pluck off the stuff, and apply a drop of Lugols to the area for a few seconds before putting it back in the water. It doesn't take long, but it is a little unnerving.

I don't know what causes it as I never did that much homework or perhaps I've simply forgotten since then. Your comment about it being a newer fish may refer to the age of the fish more than the purchase date. If you have a sick fish, you need to treat it rather than wait and hope it goes away.
 
So, all I have to do is get some of that lugols stuff and physically put it on the fish? I do this after I pick off the other stuff?
 
I looked at it today and it appears to be the same color as the fish. Not white. I swore it was a more greyish color before.
 
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