disease

Hey guys , I am completely stumped & have tried literally everything I can think of , if anyone has any suggestions please let me know I hate to lose this coral I got from Unique Corals that cost over $500 Background: UC Amazeballs Goniopora purchased from unique corals several months ago ...

I was wondering about the possibility of looking for parasites under the microscope as an alternative (or in addition) to quarantine in general. This came to mind in the context of me needing to add a large crew of Emerald crabs to help combat a bubble algae outbreak ASAP. But my interest at...

I have a toadstool that is about 3 years old. It’s about 20 inches wide. About 6 months ago I started noticing white botches just a few. It did really affect the leather it still fully opened, and you could only see them during water changes when the leather was closed. It has progressively...

I just bought a blue tang a few weeks ago and I noticed that it got this black area, it isn’t on the other side so does anyone know what it is or how to cure it?

I noticed that my canary blenny was pooping out this weird thing. Is it a internal parasite or sickness? Thank you

Help! My yellow tang literally turned from normal to looking like this in a day. Any info on what this could be? She had some on her fin a few weeks ago, we thought it was just sand, it went away in two days. Now it’s back even worse!! What could it be? She’s looking skinny and not wanted to eat...

Recently added a coral beauty to my 120 tank. It started fussing with my clownfish now both have faint white blemishes. It is a little tough to see because a diamond goby is busy stirring up the sandbed

Came home from work and the female has been just chillin here. Is this considered gasping for air?? She did have white stringy poop the other day. The male clown and blenny are acting completely normal. Trying not to panic lol please help and tell me what to do. @Jay Hemdal

Hey everyone, we recently added a baby blue tang to our DT. At first she was going great, swimming around with everyone and eating no problem. Yesterday she had a white mark on one side we just assumed as from hiding in the rocks. This morning her one side was completely white and she wasn't...

Hi, We recently added our first fish to our cycled red sea 170 aquarium. Yesterday one of our clownfish died after refusing to eat for 24 hours, hiding and having white stringy poop. Today we noticed that our other fish also has white stringy poop, she is still eating fine, but she seems a lot...

Greetings all, I have 10 gallon fowlr cycled it for 30 days and added a blue damsel after 4 minutes of fw dip he was heavy breathing and got normal ate and started digging the substrate all of a sudden he was on his side with fins and gills are torn up he was heavy breathing and eventually...

Hi all, Not sure what’s going on with my clown fish he’s been acting strange lately breathing heavy laying in the sand and hanging out by the filter but eatting normal. Recently noticed some spots on his face and gills. The tanks been going now for two months and my water levels have been...

Hi everyone, I have a pair of chromis that have been in copper power at 2.5 for the past 5 days. Knowing that chromis are very susceptible to Uronema, would the disease have shown itself by now, or is it better to start formalin or metro regardless? There is no discoloration on either of the...

Hi everyone, I have had a pair of clowns for about 2 years, and over the last two days I noticed some white splotches on the smaller one. It’s been eating normally and hasn’t had any noticeable change in behavior, but I’m worried that it could be a disease. There haven’t been any new fish...

Hi All, I am completely new to Reef Tank and 2 clowns were added less than a week back who arent doing well. Its a 67 Gallon Tank and the guy who set it up said all water parameters are good. Tank has just two fishes - likely 3 band Clownfish/Clarkii. Noticed One of the fishes to have torn /...

Hello. I am new to the hobby. I have a blue-green chromis that has a white spot up near the dorsal fin. It showed up first this morning. I have had him for about a month. I don’t have a QT and fear I am about to see the consequences of that… he has been swimming around and eating fine. The tank...

My flame hawk is a little pale atm not its usually colour obviously we just treated the tank as a few other wish had white spot we were advised to leave the treatment in there for 14 days for it to get around and hopefully help them all out its been 2 days since we have began the waiting process...

This morning I noticed that my hippo is favoring one fin. I can’t tell if he is injured or has the start of a fin disease. video is long - around the 2 min mark is a good shot. I was videoing the Anthias as well. He was introduced to the tank a month ago. He came larger that I thought he would...

Took a look at the tank tonight before I am away on a work trip and noticed some of my colonies showing some issues. Most are favia/favities. Not 100% what the orange one is, not worrying about and ID just help with a diagnosis. Haven't made any drastic changes to the tank lighting...

We finally got our UV up and running so thought we would try to start tangs. Introduced 3 to our 180 gallon. One of them was a very skinny mimic tang. After 3 weeks, we never saw him again so assumed he had passed. LFS said we had a huge cleanup crew so monitor levels but do not tear apart...

So I have a clown that developed a few dark spots weeks ago. My fellow reefers locally determined it was from my hammer coral stinging him. They did go away after awhile while I still had my hammer. now I currently do not have a hammer in my tank (for a few weeks now) and theses spots...

I need advice! I got this dottyback a few weeks ago, and I saw some white patches on its side yesterday! Above its anal fin looks weird too. I just put it in a spare 5 gallon, and am planning on using kanaplex with 90 percent weekly water changes. Is this enough? Any idea what the cause is? This...

2 clownish look this way overnight. They are swimming at the surface. My dog face puffer is scratching on sand and rocks allot. Any thoughts of what this is and what I should do?

Hello, I have a Timor erase that I’ve had for around two years now and he has been struggling for months now with something I would like help in identifying. He has a large lump on one side of him and what looks to be another lump starting out almost directly on the opposite side along with a...

Hey guys, this morning I noticed a white spot near one of my clownfish dorsal fin. There’s only one on it’s body so I don’t think it’s the ich. I attached a picture even though it’s not the best quality. It’s sort of crater like raised a little bit. Was wonder if this was cryptocaryon or...