You have camera flash in very area needed to be seen. These fish susceptible to both bacterial and uronema and the flash is whiting out the area. I hope you have other pics? As it decays, it becomes harder to tellMy raccoon butterfly fish was looking perfect no signs of disease he stopped eating yesterday. Everything else is looking perfect. I was just wondering if this looked like any certain disease. The main thing that looks different is those weird brown looking things on his snout.
My raccoon butterfly fish was looking perfect no signs of disease he stopped eating yesterday. Everything else is looking perfect. I was just wondering if this looked like any certain disease. The main thing that looks different is those weird brown looking things on his snout. I came home from a fishing trip for a couple hours and when I came back he had a very hard time swimming he was swimming upside down and in circles.
No - freshwater velvet (a different species) shows the millions of dust spots. Marine velvet shows rapid breathing, not eating and hanging in water flow as the main symptom. In some cases, towards the end, the skin can look sort of “cloudy” or congested. Many pictures online of fish with “velvet” are actually of fish with late stage marine ich.
Not many options for treating marine velvet. Coppersafe is the first pick, but will be absorbed by live rock and will kill invertebrates. Chloroquine will work and doesn’t absorb into the rocks, but it will kill everything in the tank except the fish - algae, most invertebrates.
If the fish are all eating well, they won’t have abn acute disease like velvet. They might be chronic carriers I suppose, but that is pretty rare, I’ve not seen it myself.
Ok I’m just very nervous because I’ve heard that velvet is the black plague of saltwater.
