#fishmedic

First, I have very little vision. A yellow tang is just a bright yellow blob/blur to me. A guest (non-reefer) had noticed his tail looked like it had been chewed on and face was turning white about a month ago. So, I ordered up green and purple sea veggies and selcon (normal food is pe pellets...

Need help diagnosing and treating. All fish eating normal except 1. 4 fish have hazy eyes and skin looks hazy, 7 seem fine. May have white specs or maybe sand. Swimming normally, not rubbing on anything. All fish are in display tank. Have not added any new fish for over 6 months. Most of them I...

Hey everyone, I just made an account here but I follow the forum for a while now, since my fiancé and I have an aquarium since the beginning of May. He just posted our build on his thread (which I also linked on my profile here). Anyways, while all seems to go quite well in our DT, in our...

Hey All! Looking to get help and ensure the diagnosis is appropriate. I had my clowns get what was originally determined to be ich…and they were covered. Transferred and stood up 10 gallon QT and they’ve been doing well. Their appetites are still very much there and almost all of it is gone...

Just found my black clownfish dead. We had him for about 3 years with another orange and white clown . No signs of distress. I believe the previous owner had him for 3-4 years as well so he was approximately 7+ years old . Anything amiss from these photos? Other two fish in the tank seem fine...

Hello to all I recently purchased a clownfish. I’ve noticed he has a white spot on his top fin behind his head. I’m not sure if this is his normal coloring or if he may be sick. I will attach a few pics. He is currently in a QT tank and I have treated him with GC, Melafix and pimafix. When I...

Issue: My Midas Blenny is not eating. This started after three power outages in two days. Each outage was 2-4 hrs. I used airstones. One airstone came loose and ended up right where the Blenny sleeps, but he didn't move. I thought the cause was stress to start with. He sat in weird places...

Hello great reefers, I’m still fairly new at identifying fish disease. This looks like an injury to me but would love to know what you all think is wrong with Dario the Rabbitfish. He’s currently growing out in an anemone tank (btas) before going into the 200 gallon. Dario is about two...

Hello, I need some help in regards to my clownfish pair showing signs of brooklynella. Mucus peeling away from face region, occasional flashing against plastic/rubber parts of tank, frayed/clamped fins. I have a 26 gallon reef with a total of 3 captive bred fishes. Two clownfish and a royal...

So 2 mornings ago I got a phone call at work. My fox space was covered in white spots. I got home to take pictures and he looked fine later on. That night, my clown fish started acting, really weird and I noticed his coloration, not right. I the next morning notice spots. White spots all over...

My royal gramma seems to be losing color. I've read this is common, but since it seems to be accelerating a bit I'm wondering if there's something else going on. Below is some tank info as well as a link to a video of the fish roughly 30 seconds long. The RG shares a tank with 2 clowns and a...

Hello all and happy Easter! Quick backstory. I suspected ich in my 125 fowlr system so I did a 30 day Hyposalinity treatment where I held 1.008-1.009 for 30 full days. After about a week into it my purple tang started having these white spots show up and it gradually got worse. I am attaching a...

Does my firefish look like it’s sick or is this normal behavior? He usually hides in the live rock but he’s been coming out more often but will lie down on the sand and I really can’t tell if this is normal or not.

Hello All, I am in need of trying to figure out what this might be, I've had this Emperor in 2.5 ppm of copper for the past 15 days, I've also put her thru 2 treatments of Prazipro as well as did a week treatment of API general cure. Originally I thought I had ICK but that is not the case, if...

Hi, I've read a zillion threads at this point, but I want to confirm a diagnosis before I stress out my Power Blue Tang (PBT) with a freshwater dip. He is about 8 years old. My PBT started by having a cloudy eye, and it seemed to be Pop Eye. I gave him Kanaplex, and it cleared up the problem a...

I introduced a dartfish and rabbit fish after what I thought was a successful QT. However, I introduced them to the tank and the dartfish had small white spots (about 5 on the tail, fins and 1 on the body) about 2 days after introduction. That was 4 days ago now and I haven't seen another sign...

Hi! This is a n00b in my aquarium added two days ago. Is this for sure ich? I was hoping for confirmation so I know how to treat him. I'm also nervous that it has already spread to the rest of my tank.

Clownfish do this weird movement where they seem to swim down into the floor, are they scratching their gills? Attached is another video to demonstrate breathing rate of clownfish on the right, it seems a bit quick to me. They have just been through 3 rounds of praziquantel treatment 10 days...

I noticed some white dots and white discoloration on my midnight lightening clown today and need help diagnosing what it is for treatment. Please help.

Hey all, Hoping someone can id and provide a treatment plan for my yellow clown goby. His face/gills on both sides are white, which I dont recall seeing when he was in qt. Added to DT last Saturday, no other symptoms at this point in time. TIA

I recently picked up a male Lyretail anthia 2 weeks ago. I had him in QT for a week to get settled in before doing HTTM, plus it was the holiday season and I didn't have the most time on my hands. Anyways, after a week I noticed the right eye was getting cloudy and wasn't sure if it was flukes...

Hello all and happy new year! I just picked up 2 new Triggers (Pink Tail and a Black Trigger) They looked great at the local Store, 2 days later while in my 60gal observation tank I noticed these spots. Due to the size and location I am guessing this is not ICK but could be 100% wrong. Do...

Okay so I’ve had ich last year, I know what it looks like. I haven’t had a fish with ich since 6/8/23. The tank was empty for 100 days. Slowly added two medium fish, no signs, healthy. Added a four in angel after a few months. Same. Healthy, no signs. Added this emperor on Tuesday...

This little dwarf was surrendered, I didn’t realize just how poor condition he was last night and this morning majority of his scales have melted off, as well as his spine coverings and his fins. I’m very attached to this fish, please tell me there’s something I can do to save him? He won’t...

Hello, I just got this new blue hippo tang 3 days ago and tonight I noticed these white spots on him. What are they are they just stress spots or ick? And what should I do? Pls help the water parameters are perfect btw. I just separated him from a clown tang that would attack him