Queen Angelfish Sick??

[Ameer Omary]

Hello all,

I am new to this forum and I would like to say first off thanks for your help in advance.

I bought a queen angelfish (about 1.5"-2") from my LFS about 3 weeks ago. Since his arrival to my tank, he's been eating very well and swimming around happy as can be.

Up until 3 days ago, I noticed he stopped eating and would hide al day. He spazzes from time to time and I noticed body marks. Please see picture below. Can anyone give me tips or advise as to what this might be and how to cure it? It's been in a tank with a sailfin tang (3.5-4") and a Bursa Trigger (2-2.5") all three were happily swimming together until my queen suddenly started losing color and had symptoms mentioned Above. Please help I want to try to fix it before anything bad happens to it.

Tested the water and nitrate was a little high but nothing out of the usual. Did a 20% water change yesterday.

 

[Ubans13]

Did u happen to QT or just add to display? Does he hide from the light all day? Does he breath heavy? Also is this a reef or fish only?

 

[maroun.c]

Welcome to the forum.
If u can catch it maybe a freshwater dip to rule out flukes. If under them (they become opaque after few minutes in fresh water) then maybe couple rounds of prazi preferably in quarantine.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Sounds like velvet. Three week life cycle, hiding from light, not eating. I'm fighting it right now too, best of luck.

 

[Ubans13]

Sorry missed the hiding all day. Usually hiding all day is more towards velvet. Also velvet will affect the color of the fish as this parasite will almost look like a powder on the outside of the fish. You could try a fresh water dip to relieve symptoms of velvet. Does the fish flash on rocks from time to time.

 

[Humblefish]

Agree with FW dip to check for flukes and/or provide temporary relief of velvet: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/freshwater-dip.248898/

After that, either way, he needs to go into QT for Prazipro treatment (for flukes) or to be treated for Marine Velvet Disease: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/velvet-amyloodinium-ocellatum.217570/

The white film is a secondary bacterial infection and will require antibiotics. But at the root of the problem is a parasite or worm, and that is what's causing the spazzing.

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