Problems during TTM

[Chrisq0904]

I had 3 anthias going through ttm I did transfer 2 last night and this morning I found one female dead I think due to lack of eating because she was pretty small but she always are a little when I fed. The male has a small area of scales that are raised and the anal fin has a white line of "slime" or something. I only fed this morning but not last night (did transfer at 10pm) I will put a few pictures but not sure how much it will help as they are not easy to get pictures of.

The remaining female looks fine

The male. You can kind of make out what I'm talking about on the fin but my camera doesn't pick up the raised scales because they're only a little raised.

EDIT: The only thing I can get them to eat is frozen mysis
AND I had dosed prazi for the past 72hrs before I did the transfer

 

[ThRoewer]

You could be dealing with an Uronema marinum infection - Anthias and green chromis are especially prone to that.

Have a look at this article: Identifying Parasitic Diseases in Marine Aquarium Fish - A Hobbyist’s Guide to Identifying Some Common Marine Aquarium Parasites

 

[snorvich]

You could be dealing with an Uronema marinum infection - Anthias and green chromis are especially prone to that.

Have a look at this article: Identifying Parasitic Diseases in Marine Aquarium Fish - A Hobbyist's Guide to Identifying Some Common Marine Aquarium Parasites

What he said. Uronema marinum would be my guess.

 

[Chrisq0904]

Well I could not find any formalin locally, so I picked up some Para Guard since I heard that can be used instead, I have treated the fish for the past two days and they seem to have responded very well to the medication. The slime is no longer on the anal fins of the male and the raised scales are almost 100% flat. Just wanted to give a small update and thank everyone again for the help.

 

[Dmorty217]

I'm pretty sure para guard has some formalin in it. stuff works, you just have to use a lot of it and everyday it has to be redosed

 

[firemountain]

What he said. Uronema marinum would be my guess.

+1

Did you buy the fish from La/DD ? We have been hearing a lot of reports of anthias getting Uronema from them. I know this because I am one of them. I lost a trio of Weitei anthias to Uronema back several months ago. The pic you posted looked exactly like the same like mine. Horrible disease and it spreads REALLY FAST.

 

[ThRoewer]

uronema, brook and velvet are 3 good reasons to give every new fish a formalin dip, even if it looks fine at first. Best is to do it right when you get the fish, before it even goes into the QT, because by the time you see symptoms the fish is already very sick and it may already be too late to save it - especially if you don't have the right medications at hand.
TTM against ich can be done later as ich usually takes a while to build up the numbers to kill fish. Ich you will usually see a long time coming.

 

[snorvich]

uronema, brook and velvet are 3 good reasons to give every new fish a formalin dip, even if it looks fine at first. Best is to do it right when you get the fish, before it even goes into the QT, because by the time you see symptoms the fish is already very sick and it may already be too late to save it - especially if you don't have the right medications at hand.
TTM against ich can be done later as ich usually takes a while to build up the numbers to kill fish. Ich you will usually see a long time coming.

I agree with all of the above

 

[Chrisq0904]

+1

Did you buy the fish from La/DD ? We have been hearing a lot of reports of anthias getting Uronema from them. I know this because I am one of them. I lost a trio of Weitei anthias to Uronema back several months ago. The pic you posted looked exactly like the same like mine. Horrible disease and it spreads REALLY FAST.

I didn't buy from them, I got mine from my lfs.i was going to try la/dd but now you have me second guessing that idea.

 

[Chrisq0904]

Also, how would I know when the fish is cured