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Old 10-29-2006, 11:19 AM
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Does it look like this?

http://www.fishbase.org/Diseases/Dis...D1.jpg&notcom=

If so you are in for a bit of fun. This is usually refered to as Black Ich and is a sign of parasitic worms being present. It's pretty easy to knock the worms off the fish using fw dips, formalin or keeping them in hyposlinity QT tank for a bit.

Getting them out of your display is going to be a bugger though. If you don't have any corals I'd move the shrimp out and do a week or two hyposalinity in the display, that should get them.

Here's a pretty good synopsis for you:

http://www.petsforum.com/personal/tr.../blackich.html
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