Whats up with my wrasse? Pics inside

DamnPepShrimp

Moved On
Ok, I had an outbreak that wiped out a couple of fish within a matter of 2 days. I added 3 new fish from another members established tank, they got some disease and died. I have my wrasse and eel left. I thought it was velvet, so I put them in QT and treated with cupramine. I also started prazipro. I noticed what look to be like flukes on the bottom of my QT tank, heres a pic a week or so ago.
photo-137.jpg

Long story short, cupramine throws off ammonia levels, prime detoxifies cupramine into a 10x stronger copper substance equals BAD! So I did a 50% water change, ran carbon for a week so the QT tank has no meds in it. Now I looked at my wrasse today and he looks bad! He was improving before. He still acts normal, but I found more flukes on the bottom of the tank, some had his skin attached to it! There were bright reds, yellows and greens on it! It looks like my eel bite him though, but the eel is not aggressive at all and extremely passive! Plus he just ate yesterday. It appears that flukes are around the "wound" so my question is, could flukes hurt the fish so badly that they make marks in the fish? Heres some crappy pics I took with my phone, it is the only camera I have. You can see two marks about an 1.5" apart, the back one looks like a dent in him and the front looks like a rip with flukes coming out of it? It could just be the flukes falling off him? I started prazipro 2 days ago, and saw some dead ones on the bottom again.
photo-142.jpg

photo-143.jpg

I really hope my eel didn't try and take a bite of him, because I have 3 small angels in QT that would surely get eaten by him. I have had small damsels before with him, he doesn't harm anyone and is extremely passive, I can pet him!

What does everyone think? Its the dying flukes coming off him?
 
The flukes leave wounds where they were attached. The fish has to be strong enough to heal. Especially if he had many flukes. That equals lots of wounds. That's where the excellent water conditions have to come in to help him. You don't want him to develop secondary infections.
 
How the little guy doing today? I hate to see problem diseases run ramped like that. Buddy of mine just lost a bunch of fish to Velvet cause he didn't have a QT setup. I warned him before he set the tank up. He's paying the unfortunate price. Hopefully your wrasse gets better and your eel and angels turn out ok too.
 
Thanks for the help and concern. I have QT but I added 3 new fish with these guys (wrasse and eel). They were in another guys tank for 3 years, so felt QT wasn't needed. They brought in the disease that wiped them out. My eel is fine, since they are pretty disease resistant. My wrasse is one hardy SOB! The wrasse is still eating and seems ok, but has wounds on him from the flukes and maybe velvet? I don't know for sure what wiped out my tank in 2 days, figured velvet but the fish that died were covered in ich and white cloudy stuff, I assumed velvet.
I did however see the eel nip the wrasse! The eel has never been aggressive, but if he turns into the mean eel he is supposed to be, then he'll have to go unfortunately. I don't know what to do there.
My angels are all doing great, all 3 of them are 2" so they'd be easy meals for my eel. They are in a seperate QT tank while my 210g is fallow and will be for 8 weeks. I have less then 4 weeks to go, hopefully all works out and my angels and eel get along, not eaten!
 
Back
Top