HELP - Fish Illness

TheReefGeek · #1 02-23-2006, 02:35 AM

Does anyone know what this might be on my foxface? Some sort of parasite? This is not my area of expertise, I have been fortunate not to have any disease outbreaks, maybe until now!

He is a new addition to my tank about 2 weeks ago, I think he had some blemishes when I got him, but they are way worse all of a sudden.

The foxface is swimming, breathing, and eating normally. The pictured side is the worst, the other side has 1 spot.

mr_alberta · #2 02-23-2006, 02:37 AM

Can you post a better picture and/or a description of what the symptoms are? I can't see anything in the picture...

TheReefGeek · #3 02-23-2006, 02:40 AM

No symptoms other than the grey spots all along his side, Does this help?

i have crabs · #4 02-23-2006, 02:47 AM

foxfaces lose thier colour and go blochy when scared,stressed or sleeping makes them look real bad untill you get used to it but by the picture its hard to say if its more than that or not,took mine quite a while to relax and hes still a stress case.

TheReefGeek · #5 02-23-2006, 02:49 AM

He goes almost completely brown/grey when scared, but he has been a nice yellow for about 1 week now, but these spots seem different, he is yellow, but the grey spots remain. I will try to see if any of them fade in or out.

i have crabs · #6 02-23-2006, 03:09 AM

could be some kind fungus infection or mabey a bacteria issue

TheReefGeek · #7 02-23-2006, 03:56 AM

Here is another, larger picture if it helps any

KingTitan · #8 02-23-2006, 05:38 AM

Looks like it could be black spot. it is not as deadly as the white spot "ich". best treatment would be a hospital tank with copper (cupramine). or you could try a 5 minute fresh water dip ( always is risky)

Reefhawk1 · #9 02-23-2006, 05:47 AM

What are you feeding the foxface? And also the usual question what are your tank parmeters. Are there any other fish infected?

TheReefGeek · #10 02-23-2006, 05:55 AM

Tank parameters are perfect, im not going to list them all though. The foxface is eating a wide variety of foods, different types of macro algae, regular and veggy flake food, and my variety of frozen foods (marine diet, mysis, brine, etc, etc all blended together and frozen in 1 big block)

I am confident this is not from my tank, none of my other fish show any signs (YET, keep my fingers crossed) and this is a recent addition, so im pretty sure the foxface brought whatever this is, in with him.

I will do some research on black spot and maybe that is it.

Catching him will be a bugger.

Can I get more details on a fresh water dip? What is involved? Heat the water then bring the PH up? Anything else? Just leave him in there for 5 minutes? I have not had to do this before, thanks for the help.