Unsure of fish disease, Please advise

[crissie]

I'd definitely agree with Snorvich, that looks like Brook.

 

[crissie]

Yes, it can be white-ish and many would describe it as a fish looks pale. The naso picture above definitely looks like brook or uronema, the timeline of the fish that died is not consistent with ich, but more like brook or uronema, especially with the skin peeling. (which is actually from dehydration)

Yes, completely agree, especially with seeing the added pictures.

Out of interest, where are you sourcing your information/links from? They are very well written, much better than any info I've come across before.

 

[snorvich]

Yes, completely agree, especially with seeing the added pictures.

Out of interest, where are you sourcing your information/links from? They are very well written, much better than any info I've come across before.

I write them. I tend to avoid aquarium related authors as they are not definitive enough. I read extensively in the marine biology literature and then try to create a concise straight forward easily understandable summary. And I am glad you enjoy them. We are going to take 10 of these and put them in the Fish Diseases forum with a master list. Hope to have that done in a week or less.

 

[crissie]

I write them. I tend to avoid aquarium related authors as they are not definitive enough. I read extensively in the marine biology literature and then try to create a concise straight forward easily understandable summary. And I am glad you enjoy them. We are going to take 10 of these and put them in the Fish Diseases forum with a master list. Hope to have that done in a week or less.

That's fantastic, I'm sure they will be a great help to many people!

 

[DolphinzFan]

Thank you both for all your advise. I will move forward with treatment, and advise as I go.

Thanks again.

 

[snorvich]

crissie, if you were going to buy only one book, the one I would recommend is Captive Seawater Fishes by Stephen Spotte. Stephen Spotte, a marine scientist, was born and raised in West Virginia. He has been a field biologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (Vicksburg, Mississippi); curator and later director of Aquarium of Niagara Falls (New York); curator of the New York Aquarium and Osborn Laboratories of Marine Science (Brooklyn, New York); director of Mystic Aquarium (Mystic, Connecticut); executive director of Sea Research Foundation and research scientist at the Marine Sciences and Technology Center, University of Connecticut (Groton, Connecticut); principal investigator, Coral Reef Ecology Program (Turks and Caicos Islands, B.W.I.), and adjunct scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory (Sarasota, Florida). Dr. Spotte has a B.S. degree from Marshall University, a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi. We are fortunate to have a marine biologist on staff here at Reef Central and he has reviewed the descriptions that we will be posting as soon as they are edited completely.

 

[crissie]

Thank you very much for the recommendation Snorvich, I will most definitely be getting that!

DolphinzFan, I hope the treatment works well