Timor Wrasse Diagnosis Help!

[JCas06]

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 tiny white bump more near his anal fin. He has some type of pectoral fin degradation that looks to have white specks near the tips of what’s left. His belly is also sucked in even though he eats like a pig. I will attach pictures and video.

I managed to trap him two weeks ago and did a safety stop bath on him (formalin and methylene blue) but did not seem to do much. I have a full mixed reef tank, and he is still too fast to catch with a net.

 

[vetteguy53081]

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 tiny white bump more near his anal fin. He has some type of pectoral fin degradation that looks to have white specks near the tips of what’s left. His belly is also sucked in even though he eats like a pig. I will attach pictures and video.

I managed to trap him two weeks ago and did a safety stop bath on him (formalin and methylene blue) but did not seem to do much. I have a full mixed reef tank, and he is still too fast to catch with a net.

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This appears to be a cyst and is bacterial related. Safety stop is a bath or in better terms a disinfectant for fish and not deemed a regular treatment in which there are mixed reviews with product. For this, I would get the fish into a quarantine tank and treat instead with Seachem Kanaplex or even neoplex for at least 7 days providing good water quality and added oxygen with an air stone

 

[Jay Hemdal]

The other wrasse is also hassling this one. The fact that it was making passes at it while you were right there taking the video makes me wonder what it is doing with you leave the room?

The slightly "off" appearance of this fish, the length of time you've had it plus the lesions on its body make me think Mycobacterium, fish tuberculosis. That is a chronic, but untreatable internal bacterial disease....positive diagnosis requires a post-mortem, but the basic visual signs are there.

Jay