Watanabei female with white marks ((

[ItalianFella]

Hi there,

I'm quite worried about a very pretty Watanabei female.
I bought her 2 weeks ago from a reliable local shop that kept it in the store for 3 weeks for me...+4 weeks at the importer..apparently.
I visited the fish 2-3 times at the shop to make sure it was ok and once confident of its health, I took it home and slowly acclimatised over 45 mins.
She started eating immediately frozen and it has been very active, but a week ago I spotted a little "hole" on her back (see image with anthias) and more recently ( last couple of days ) she is a little quieter and has developed 2 white marks .. once on each side of the body.
It doesn't scratch against send or rocks, I don't see her flicking and she is still feeding well.
Initially she was chased occasionally by the male WA, but things have settled and the marks have developed only once the chasing stopped.
In the same tank there are not other fish chasing her but there is a malu anemone and a send anemone (might them be at fault?)

After a quick search over the internet I found this:

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/fi...nthus/faqs.htm
Watanabe Angelfish Emergency - Diagnosis Please
(you need to scroll down a little to find the image of the WA female and the title here above)

It seems to me like is the same type of issue ((( and from the Q&A it seems pretty much doomed!

I'm really worried now.. not just because of the money.. but it is such a beautiful and .. somewhat rare fish.

Any help would be very, very much appreciated!


Thanks in advance,
Claudio

 

[Deinonych]

It could just be battle damage from another fish in the tank, or it could be early signs of disease. Hard to be certain which it is, but given that the fish was not quarantined, I would be concerned it's the latter. If it is an infection, it looks like it could be early signs of Brooklynella. That would fit the timeline since introduction. I would continue to monitor the fish and be prepared to treat if the white marks get larger, start sloughing off, or become reddened. Any protozoan infection like Brook would affect all fish in the tank, so they would all need to be treated if it came to that.

There are a number of sticky threads in the Fish Diseases forum; recommend reviewing them and planning a course of action if need be. Hopefully it's just battle damage.

 

[arashsheikhpoor]

Is she in qt now or in your dt? It's a pretty fish none the less.