Sick Fish, Need Help Asap!

Felix27

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Last night we noticed that this guy was hanging out near the bottom of the tank breathing heavy, not moving much, and had a nasty red spot growing on one side. We moved him from out 44 gal. main tank to a 10 gal. QT. We are stil new to the hobby and have no clue what is wrong, any ideas or help would be great, thanks guys!

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Likely mechanical injury and then bacterial infection.

Have you cycled your QT before?

Do you have UV?



Not so much for this fish, in the future, in order to treat fish in a QT often one needs a cycled tank; otherwise, frequent water change will be necessary to rid the QT of ammonia.

In this case, antibiotic treatment is likely called for. If a fish is already infected then UV is no longer called for, as UV degrades antibiotics.

UV is useful in prevention; that said, if there was a large open wound from injury, then UV may not do much to prevent infection.

Some antibiotics (chloromycetin for example) will destroy nitrification bacteria; some will only (neomycin kanamycin) depress it somewhat.
 
Are you sure that it is a growth? Pics make it harder to tell the difference but looks more like bruising. Could it have gotten stung by a coral? I have seen some damsels host but not sure chromis would ever attempt that.
 
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