injury

My parents recently got a Tiger Wardi Goby and the little fellow is in quarantine. He's been doing fine so far, but within the past couple of days he had what looked to be a bruise on his lip which has formed into what (to me) looks like it's rotting off. None of us have any idea what could've...

I have had a good sized melanurus wrasse for a month in my 80 gallon. He is in there with a kole tang I've had for 8 years, a yellow watchman and a mandarin. I have bird's-nest and a couple acros other than softie lps. He was fine this morning and I got home and saw a cut or hole on his belly. I...

my watchman goby has a hole on his side thats been getting bigger and deeper into its body im pretty sure its done for cause i dont really have any medication or quarantine tank set up but just want to know if anyone knows what it has? its still eating but it looks like its getting worse, im...

Unfortunately today, our porcupine puffer got into a scrap with our vampire tang after the vampire tang instigated a fight over some food. The puffer got a scalpel to the face and his upper lip is cut fairly deep, however there hasn't been any blood and doesn't seem to be any exposed flesh and...

Ironically my jawfish broke his jaw while defending his hole lol. He’s still active and eats fine. I don’t plan/want to intervene. Looks like a bulldog now . Anybody have this happen before?

I've had my exquisite fairy wrasse for about 6 months now without any issues. He has his cave he likes to hide in to sleep at night. Yesterday I noticed he didn't really want to come out during feeding. He grabbed things that floated by but stayed in the cave mostly. Today I noticed he was still...

My One spot foxface has been through alot, but recently he has been extremely healthy though always eating, nice and chunky, active and eating algae. Today after coming home I saw a large lump/gash on his left side near the base of his larger fin. Not sure what happened if he had a brush with a...

Hey all, Purchased a Firefish from a LFS 3 weeks ago, has been healthy and showing no signs of disease. Last night however, I noticed that his tail fin is starting to tear? This must have occurred within the last 24hrs as I havent noticed it before. Is this an early sign of some sort of disease...

Have had this guy in QT for 3 weeks. From day one it has had this dark spot on its head. Not sure if it has an infection or just dark scales? It has not gotten any smaller or bigger over time. Eating very well and not breathing hard. Should I be trying to treat or does it just have a dark mark?

Hello everyone. My new bluespot jawfish is having an issue. It was lethargic and with the stomach bloated. I took it out to inspect and I saw this injury. I tried to massage the area to see if there was something clocked... Some white poop came out. And some liquid. Any heko is appreciated

Sailfin tang hurt his lip and in turn gave himself Popeye. He’s having some struggles swimming but still has a massive appetite. I was out of the house almost all day and come back to that, help!

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...

Hello all! So I have a striped fangblenny, and he’s always done great. However he often gets injuries on his face, and I’m not sure what it could possibly be. I believed maybe he was flashing due to flukes, and I did two rounds of prazi. The injuries are still appearing though. They’re always...

Just got a Fiji Puffer today and put him in to my tank while I went to work. He sat in a breeding box with a net that I use to reduce aggression and let the fish check out the new fish before adding (all day). I came home, let him out and he swam into a cave but I noticed some sort of sore with...

Hi Reef2Reef fam, I woke up this morning to feed the fish friends and noticed my Acantho had suffered an injury. The skeleton has poked through the flesh. I believe a snail fell off the glass or a hermit decided to climb on it. Other than the flesh injury the Acantho opens up and is responsive...

I recently purchased two True Percula clownfish. The other day I noticed that the skin near the entrance to the fish's gills appears to be pulled and stretched out. There is also some pinkness observed on the skin. It is located on the white band near the fish's head. The injured fish and the...

Hi! I got a brunneus Wrasse a few days ago. He's now got some pinecone-y looking scales in his side and some swelling. Any idea what this is or how I treat it? I paid extra to have him quarantined by my local store, because I don't have a great set-up for quarantine. When he came home, he...

I’m not sure what happened. I noticed today that my Midas blenny was gone. I eventually found my Midas blenny had passed and was already pretty much all gone. I had kind of seen this coming as he kept getting skinnier and skinnier even though I was feeding him daily and everyone else was happy...

My two puffers went after the same piece of meat this afternoon and by complete accident the larger one got my Valentini’s snout. They are usually best friends and my valentini shadows my bigger puffer. My big puffer (dogface) has never shown any aggression towards any tank mates and this was...

I have a matted filefish that's kept in the sump (has become his home to aggression with other fish). Today I found him lodged at the bottom of the tank due to the spikes on its horn. They were lodged into some filter foam that I use to buffer the protein skimmer. There was a pencil sea urchin...

Please help. Does anyone know what this could be on my little clown? It started off as a red bump under his mouth, but has turned white and he now seems to be bothered by it and keeps his mouth open all the time. Tank is relatively new (2 months) and this guy seems to be having issues. He is...

Hi collective wisdom, A couple of days ago I found one of my clownfish had an injury on her fin, I suspect it was an accident during feeding caused by the yellow wrasse who is a bit aggressive when eating, otherwise, there is no aggression whatsoever in the tank, I only have another clownfish...

Hey there i have 5 chromis 1 small 3 medium and 1 large in size And out of no where one of my chromis mouth and seemly part of his face looks like its coming off I do have other fish in my tank 2 clown a tomini tang A six line wrasse and a Twospined angelfish I havent notices any fighting at...

Hello all, Wanted to get some input on these facial sores on my new blue Hippo tang. I suspect an injury followed by bacterial infection, but wanted to see what the community thinks. This fish has been in my 40 gallon breeder QT tank for 11 days. Salinity 1.023, temp 77F, and ammonia...

The day before yesterday, Gem got stuck on the heater... Her fins are better now, but when I was feeding them today she couldn't quite swim up to eat the flakes. The flakes float so her buoyancy when trying to eat them wasn't the best. So I gave them another portion. I thought she ate, but she...