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.
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.
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?
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.
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?