Spots on my Coral Beauty! Pls Help!!

blumarlin · 01/27/2008, 12:43 PM

I origionally posted on the fish disease forum, but there is not alot of activity there & not much response. After a 3 day vacation, I noticed some spots, missing scales(?) on my coral beauty. There are 3-4 on each side of her body & one on her pectorial fin. It is not ich & doesnt look like the pics I have seen of velvet. Is it a parasite of some sort? She has been in the tank for a year now w/ no problems. She is swimming & eating fine. Actually, better than she has in a couple of months.

All other fish are fine: yellow tang, regal tang, clarki, maroon clown, 6 line wrass & a yellow watchman gobie. 4 btas (due to 2 splits) 2 cleaner shrimps & softies.

The only things I have added to my tank in several months are sanils & red legged hermits.

I will try to post some pics or the link to photobucket. I would really appreciate ANY help, as I am "freaking out here". I am really attached to these little fellas
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...n/100_3669.jpg

blumarlin · 01/27/2008, 12:48 PM

another pic:
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...n/100_3671.jpg

sorry I meant to type "snails". They were put in the tank last month.

Deb91 · 01/28/2008, 12:18 AM

Bump

Larah · 01/28/2008, 12:21 AM

WOW that's a beautiful fish! I'm sorry I can't help you with a diagnosis...

But she's sure purty!

tmz · 01/28/2008, 01:41 AM

Can't tell from the picture but it could be lymphocystis.This is a viral infection with no known cure. However, fish can overcome it with good nutrition and low stress.

shady127 · 01/28/2008, 01:55 AM

Is that frogspawn or hammer I see in the pic? I ask cuz sometimes Coral Beauty like to rub themselfs on the sand or rocks and maybe she has been rubbing against that, and she is getting alittle scraped up from the skelatin cuz they are really sharp. try to watch her and see if she is rubbing against anything? If so try alittle stess coat to help rebuild her scales. If it was some kind of parasite the cleaner shrimp should be all over her. Hope everything works out, I just bought one myself and there a really cool fish. Good luck....

tmz · 01/28/2008, 09:12 AM

FYI If it is lmphocystis it is not thought to be contagious.Absent another idea for diagnosis, I would enhance feedin,perhaps soaking food in a vitamin supplement such as selcon or even garlic.

baldomero · 01/28/2008, 10:03 AM

i agree with shady127 it looks like its been scraping against something or its being nipped at by another fish.

Deb91 · 01/28/2008, 12:27 PM

How is fish doing,swimming,eating ect. Please let us know whats going on with him okay? I understand you were upset but you also have to realize many people won't even attempt to reply to someones sick fish because that is a lot more serious then giving out medical information then the bristleworm question you were talking about! It also helps if you don't get any responces within a while that you write bump which means bring up my post so new people signing on can see it up towards the top!

kimsie · 01/28/2008, 12:34 PM

I hope your fish gets better - post us with how she's doing. I wish I had an answer for you - but I don't...

Deb91 · 01/28/2008, 03:13 PM

I see you are back on thats good! Now how is your fish doing today?

rustybucket145 · 01/28/2008, 03:31 PM

Need a larger picture. Do you have a full resolution copy?

blumarlin · 01/28/2008, 03:39 PM

Thanks for the replies everyone. I am so sorry for my other post. I didnt mean to rant or be rude. I lost my job a few days ago & then I come home to a sick fish. I was stressing & being very impatient. I have learned so much on this site just by reading all the threads, so I havent had to ask many questions. I really do love this site. Please accept my sincere apology.

The coral beauty is the same today, no new spots. That is a frogspawn in the pic & she does hang out over by it most of the time. I didnt think of her maybe getting stung.

I always soak her food in garlic (pellots & ocassionally mysis).
She is still very active & eating well. I is impossible to get her out of the tank w/ out breaking down the whole tank, I have Lots of live rock.

I will continue to watch her & pray that they dont get worse. So far my other fish are fine.

Thanks again everyone! I really do appreciate all of you.

Renee

rustybucket145 · 01/28/2008, 03:41 PM

So....... Do you have a full resolution copy of the image?

blumarlin · 01/28/2008, 03:52 PM

Rustybucket, I am an idiot when it posting pictures here. The only way I could figure out how to do it was to transfer it from photobucket. I dont know how to make the file smaller, but I will try & send a better pic. Thanks!

Sk8r · 01/28/2008, 03:53 PM

Stings are possible. If that's an anemone in the pic, the clown may be turning sexual and getting cranky, and there may be some nipping and shoving going on. If that's the case, she'll get over it on her own.

Deb91 · 01/28/2008, 03:58 PM

Sorry to hear about your job,I don't blame you for being on edge with a day like that you had. You spoke you peace and it's soooooo time to move on. If you fish is eating well and swimming and breathing good I would say that they are good signs! Hope for the best for both you and your fish!! Could you pm me later in the week and let me no how see's doing? Best wishes!!!

rustybucket145 · 01/28/2008, 04:00 PM

Just upload the full resolution image to photobucket. Then post the link as you did.

blumarlin · 01/28/2008, 05:14 PM

blumarlin · 01/28/2008, 05:17 PM

shady127 · 01/29/2008, 05:22 AM

Hey sorry to hear about your job,and everyone has bad days, I seriously dought anyone took offense to it. Hammers and Frogspawn look soft and cute but the have a really hard and sharp skelaten so it sometimes nicks the fins pretty good but the good thing is Coral Beauties are pretty tough fish so I think You will be ok !!

01/27/2008, 12:43 PM	#1
blumarlin Premium Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Orange Beach, Al Posts: 149	Spots on my Coral Beauty! Pls Help!! I origionally posted on the fish disease forum, but there is not alot of activity there & not much response. After a 3 day vacation, I noticed some spots, missing scales(?) on my coral beauty. There are 3-4 on each side of her body & one on her pectorial fin. It is not ich & doesnt look like the pics I have seen of velvet. Is it a parasite of some sort? She has been in the tank for a year now w/ no problems. She is swimming & eating fine. Actually, better than she has in a couple of months. All other fish are fine: yellow tang, regal tang, clarki, maroon clown, 6 line wrass & a yellow watchman gobie. 4 btas (due to 2 splits) 2 cleaner shrimps & softies. The only things I have added to my tank in several months are sanils & red legged hermits. I will try to post some pics or the link to photobucket. I would really appreciate ANY help, as I am "freaking out here". I am really attached to these little fellas http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...n/100_3669.jpg __________________ Just wanted a saltwater aquarium. Didnt know I had to be a chemist... Current Tank Info: 72 gal bowfront, Lighting: 4x54 T5, 10k, 4 lunar lights

01/27/2008, 12:48 PM	#2
blumarlin Premium Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Orange Beach, Al Posts: 149	another pic: http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...n/100_3671.jpg sorry I meant to type "snails". They were put in the tank last month. __________________ Just wanted a saltwater aquarium. Didnt know I had to be a chemist... Current Tank Info: 72 gal bowfront, Lighting: 4x54 T5, 10k, 4 lunar lights

01/28/2008, 12:18 AM	#3
Deb91 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Scituate,Ma. Posts: 577	Bump __________________ Deb Current Tank Info: None running now.

01/28/2008, 01:41 AM	#5
tmz ReefKeeping Mag staff Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: West Seneca NY Posts: 27,691	Can't tell from the picture but it could be lymphocystis.This is a viral infection with no known cure. However, fish can overcome it with good nutrition and low stress. __________________ Tom Current Tank Info: Tank of the Month , November 2011 : 600gal integrated system: 3 display tanks (120 g, 90g, 89g),several frag/grow out tanks, macroalgae refugia, cryptic zones. 40+ fish, seahorses, sps,lps,leathers, zoanthidae and non photosynthetic corals.

01/28/2008, 01:55 AM	#6
shady127 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Madison Hgts. Mi Posts: 11	Is that frogspawn or hammer I see in the pic? I ask cuz sometimes Coral Beauty like to rub themselfs on the sand or rocks and maybe she has been rubbing against that, and she is getting alittle scraped up from the skelatin cuz they are really sharp. try to watch her and see if she is rubbing against anything? If so try alittle stess coat to help rebuild her scales. If it was some kind of parasite the cleaner shrimp should be all over her. Hope everything works out, I just bought one myself and there a really cool fish. Good luck.... __________________ Shady Grady 127 Current Tank Info: 90 Gallon overflow

01/28/2008, 12:21 AM	#4
Larah Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Portland, Oregon USA Posts: 1,932	WOW that's a beautiful fish! I'm sorry I can't help you with a diagnosis... But she's sure purty!

01/28/2008, 09:12 AM	#7
tmz ReefKeeping Mag staff Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: West Seneca NY Posts: 27,691	FYI If it is lmphocystis it is not thought to be contagious.Absent another idea for diagnosis, I would enhance feedin,perhaps soaking food in a vitamin supplement such as selcon or even garlic. __________________ Tom Current Tank Info: Tank of the Month , November 2011 : 600gal integrated system: 3 display tanks (120 g, 90g, 89g),several frag/grow out tanks, macroalgae refugia, cryptic zones. 40+ fish, seahorses, sps,lps,leathers, zoanthidae and non photosynthetic corals.

01/28/2008, 10:03 AM	#8
baldomero Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: aguada,puerto rico Posts: 902	i agree with shady127 it looks like its been scraping against something or its being nipped at by another fish.

01/28/2008, 12:27 PM	#9
Deb91 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Scituate,Ma. Posts: 577	How is fish doing,swimming,eating ect. Please let us know whats going on with him okay? I understand you were upset but you also have to realize many people won't even attempt to reply to someones sick fish because that is a lot more serious then giving out medical information then the bristleworm question you were talking about! It also helps if you don't get any responces within a while that you write bump which means bring up my post so new people signing on can see it up towards the top! __________________ Deb Current Tank Info: None running now.

01/28/2008, 12:34 PM	#10
kimsie Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbia, IL Posts: 1,173	I hope your fish gets better - post us with how she's doing. I wish I had an answer for you - but I don't... __________________ -- Kim

01/28/2008, 03:13 PM	#11
Deb91 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Scituate,Ma. Posts: 577	I see you are back on thats good! Now how is your fish doing today? __________________ Deb Current Tank Info: None running now.

01/28/2008, 03:31 PM	#12
rustybucket145 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: valdosta, ga Posts: 3,707	Need a larger picture. Do you have a full resolution copy? __________________ 400gals of various tanks in the same system. Current Tank Info: 2 175w MH, 2 VH0 Actinics, Lots of Live Rock, tons of copepods, a Fat Mandarin Goby, Niger Trigger, Yellow Tang, Falco Hawkfish, Bi-Color Pseudo, numerous soft, SPS and LPS Corals

01/28/2008, 03:39 PM	#13
blumarlin Premium Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Orange Beach, Al Posts: 149	Thanks for the replies everyone. I am so sorry for my other post. I didnt mean to rant or be rude. I lost my job a few days ago & then I come home to a sick fish. I was stressing & being very impatient. I have learned so much on this site just by reading all the threads, so I havent had to ask many questions. I really do love this site. Please accept my sincere apology. The coral beauty is the same today, no new spots. That is a frogspawn in the pic & she does hang out over by it most of the time. I didnt think of her maybe getting stung. I always soak her food in garlic (pellots & ocassionally mysis). She is still very active & eating well. I is impossible to get her out of the tank w/ out breaking down the whole tank, I have Lots of live rock. I will continue to watch her & pray that they dont get worse. So far my other fish are fine. Thanks again everyone! I really do appreciate all of you. Renee __________________ Just wanted a saltwater aquarium. Didnt know I had to be a chemist... Current Tank Info: 72 gal bowfront, Lighting: 4x54 T5, 10k, 4 lunar lights

01/28/2008, 03:41 PM	#14
rustybucket145 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: valdosta, ga Posts: 3,707	So....... Do you have a full resolution copy of the image? __________________ 400gals of various tanks in the same system. Current Tank Info: 2 175w MH, 2 VH0 Actinics, Lots of Live Rock, tons of copepods, a Fat Mandarin Goby, Niger Trigger, Yellow Tang, Falco Hawkfish, Bi-Color Pseudo, numerous soft, SPS and LPS Corals

01/28/2008, 03:52 PM	#15
blumarlin Premium Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Orange Beach, Al Posts: 149	Rustybucket, I am an idiot when it posting pictures here. The only way I could figure out how to do it was to transfer it from photobucket. I dont know how to make the file smaller, but I will try & send a better pic. Thanks! __________________ Just wanted a saltwater aquarium. Didnt know I had to be a chemist... Current Tank Info: 72 gal bowfront, Lighting: 4x54 T5, 10k, 4 lunar lights

01/28/2008, 03:53 PM	#16
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	Stings are possible. If that's an anemone in the pic, the clown may be turning sexual and getting cranky, and there may be some nipping and shoving going on. If that's the case, she'll get over it on her own. __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.

01/28/2008, 03:58 PM	#17
Deb91 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Scituate,Ma. Posts: 577	Sorry to hear about your job,I don't blame you for being on edge with a day like that you had. You spoke you peace and it's soooooo time to move on. If you fish is eating well and swimming and breathing good I would say that they are good signs! Hope for the best for both you and your fish!! Could you pm me later in the week and let me no how see's doing? Best wishes!!! __________________ Deb Current Tank Info: None running now.

01/28/2008, 04:00 PM	#18
rustybucket145 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: valdosta, ga Posts: 3,707	Just upload the full resolution image to photobucket. Then post the link as you did. __________________ 400gals of various tanks in the same system. Current Tank Info: 2 175w MH, 2 VH0 Actinics, Lots of Live Rock, tons of copepods, a Fat Mandarin Goby, Niger Trigger, Yellow Tang, Falco Hawkfish, Bi-Color Pseudo, numerous soft, SPS and LPS Corals

01/28/2008, 05:14 PM	#19
blumarlin Premium Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Orange Beach, Al Posts: 149	__________________ Just wanted a saltwater aquarium. Didnt know I had to be a chemist... Current Tank Info: 72 gal bowfront, Lighting: 4x54 T5, 10k, 4 lunar lights

01/28/2008, 05:17 PM	#20
blumarlin Premium Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Orange Beach, Al Posts: 149	__________________ Just wanted a saltwater aquarium. Didnt know I had to be a chemist... Current Tank Info: 72 gal bowfront, Lighting: 4x54 T5, 10k, 4 lunar lights

01/29/2008, 05:22 AM	#21
shady127 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Madison Hgts. Mi Posts: 11	Hey sorry to hear about your job,and everyone has bad days, I seriously dought anyone took offense to it. Hammers and Frogspawn look soft and cute but the have a really hard and sharp skelaten so it sometimes nicks the fins pretty good but the good thing is Coral Beauties are pretty tough fish so I think You will be ok !! __________________ Shady Grady 127 Current Tank Info: 90 Gallon overflow