Please help identify

[fsbbn@hotmail]

My emperor has been fighting this strange parasite for three months. What could it be? There seem to be small worms (very small) that protrude from holes in the skin. See the skin damage.

I have used a lot of prazi pro thinking it is flukes but they don't seem to subside.

Please help if you know what this is and how to treat it. I am going crazy trying to figure this out.

 

[cudamaster13]

cleaner wrasse might eat the parasites but wat other fish do u have in the tank?

 

[tcmfish]

Cleaner wrasse won't eat it... hearing that is like nails on a chalkboard...

If quarantining new fish was that easy, pretty sure people would just buy "cleaner" wrasses and "cleaner" shrimp... They pick the mucus off fish and if they get a parasite so be it. The fish come back because they like the feeling.

As for what it is maybe Lymph, but it is hard to tell from the pics.

 

[fsbbn@hotmail]

It is hard to get good pics. It is not lymph as there are small worms maybe flukes that seem to protrude from the skin. When they fall off they leave ulcers. They are white, about 1 cm long sometimes.

I have so many fish books including edward Nogas book but I can't seem to nail this down. i thought it was flukes but then it should respond to prazequental and it does not seem to be. The angels are more affected then the tangs.

 

[tcmfish]

Okay. Hmm.. I'll check a couple of my books when I get home. It is an awesome fish, so hopefully you can save it.

 

[humaguy]

you should seek out Copps or Liuz Rocha...

 

[humaguy]

ccampbell is also great when it comes to angels...