Parasite? Help?!
 

My McCosker Flasher Wrasse is showing signs of trouble. This morning I noticed a pale patch above his fin, but didn't think much of it. Now tonight it appears as the scales have fallen or been rubbed off, there is no coloration at all on that spot. I do not see white powdery appearances or "salting". He was added last Friday evening (so 3 days now), and was acclimated VERY carefully. Picture is below.

Specific Gravity: 1.025
Salinity: 33.6
Temp: 80.7

All other levels at 0 (Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate).

PLEASE HELP!!!

And this is a picture of the same spot yesterday, you can see it is slightly paler.

Quarantine and treat it with Seachem Paraguard.

Do you have a UV on that tank?

It's a ecoxotic stunner UV, not very strong. Why?

Is it eating? Is it breathing normally? and swimming normally?

If so, I would personally leave it alone... If it is a new addition, maybe he was bullied. Don't panic, chasing him to QT will just stress the poor thing out, more if he is already stressed.

Just my 2 cents.

He's eating fine and breathing fine. No bullies, just a royal gramma and a yasha goby. He got spooked by something he other day, maybe a peppermint shrimp :p. I'd rather not QT as well. Will keep an eye on it

Normally when a fish is sick it won't eat, from what I've experienced, and it may lay on the ground breathing heavily. I would give it a few days, throw in some fish FX if you still have any - its an immunity booster. Other than that there's the Herbatana, in the orange bottle - it's all natural, with no copper so it won't harm your inverts or coral.

-Nikita =)

Yea I say we just wait and see how he does. QT will probably just stress him out further. He's feeding completely normal and swimming around flashing. And we should try that Herbatina or whatever it is called. Thanks for the advice! :biggrin:

I recently added a blue flahser wrasse and he got a spot like that soon after adding him on top of his head .I think he was spooked and bounced off my cover, it went away in a week or two and hes was none the worse for wear.