Please assist, copper band, new addition

[Guts]

Hey guys,

I just purchased this copperbanded butterfly juvenile 11/28/14.

He was pristine during a 4 hr acclimation, acclimated with a scopus juvenile..

I have a blue hippo that displayed this "Rash" when I first put her in as well.
I changed the lighting from full spectrum + blue to just yellow for the picture, scared all my corals but it is almost 1:1 what the injury looks like in person.

Is this simply new tank syndrome? (Rubbing finicky behavior due to stress?)
Or has he suddenly developed a disease, which no other tank mate has, and in only 2 days? See pictures: One with highlighted injury and a few without.

Thanks guys, Sincerely, David.

 

[Newsmyrna80]

Looks like a bacterial infection. Treat with antibiotics, Maracyn 2. See pic here to compare to your fish http://www.chucksaddiction.com/disease.html

 

[Guts]

Remember the time clock, zero signs prior to, a 24 hour period.
I just noticed this half way through your link:

" Acclimation Stress - Often confused with an internal bacterial disease which appears very similar, ..."

Maybe 4 hours was too short of an acclimation, maybe I should I have done a 10 hour?
Better yet: I think my 2 drop/second was too fast for such a juvenile fish... maybe in the future when I introduce small fish like this I should bottleneck the drip rate to 0.5 drop/second?
Any further advice/opinions are desired. Please assist, sincerely, D.

 

[Newsmyrna80]

Did you measure the salinity of the LFS water prior to acclimation? If the LFS is lower than yours the that could have been the problem. Typically you do not want to expose fish to an increase of .02 in a 24 hr period. However, that can be averted by lowering the salinity of the QT water.
How old is your tank?
I'm not quite sure what you mean by time clock but symptoms of a disease or condition have to start at sometime, somewhere.

 

[Deinonych]

Did you measure the salinity of the LFS water prior to acclimation? If the LFS is lower than yours the that could have been the problem. Typically you do not want to expose fish to an increase of .02 in a 24 hr period. However, that can be averted by lowering the salinity of the QT water.

+1

Drip acclimation causes more harm than good IME. Matching the QT salinity to that of the transport water prevents acclimation complications like osmotic shock.

 

[Guts]

Thanks guys, I have decided that it was most likely the LFS salinity that I overlooked. I will refrain from performing drip acclimations until I check ALL levels, not just chemical but now salinity. Before I just made the assumption that I would have to drip acclimate to normalize the fish to my salinity anyway. Now I will match salinity QT thanks for the assist. D.

 

[JackandJill]

A 4 Hour acclimation is 3 hours and 30 minutes too long. If there was a large difference in salinity from LFS water to tank water the receiving tank (ideally a quarantine tank) should be adjusted to match bag water and then slowly ramp up or down that salinity over the next couple of weeks.

 

[snorvich]

+1

Drip acclimation causes more harm than good IME. Matching the QT salinity to that of the transport water prevents acclimation complications like osmotic shock.

Exactly.

 

[snorvich]

A 4 Hour acclimation is 3 hours and 30 minutes too long. If there was a large difference in salinity from LFS water to tank water the receiving tank (ideally a quarantine tank) should be adjusted to match bag water and then slowly ramp up or down that salinity over the next couple of weeks.

Right.

 

[tylersarah]

Is he eating? What are you feeding?

 

[tylersarah]

I take it this didn't end well for the fish.

 

[woodnaquanut]

Where did you go, Guts? As we all know, no guts, no glory!

You have lots of good advise here. CB also looks skinny. Is it eating?