bacterial infection

Hello reefers. Before i start this controversial post I would like to introduce myself. I am a student from the Netherlands and study medical lab research with antibiotics on bacteria. I'm still a bit of a noob but have been informed about the dangers of antibiotics. If the antibiotics get in...

I want to get your guys opinion on this. I’m not sure what’s wrong with my clown fish. One of them is breathing extremely fast and was swimming erratically in the flow from my wave maker. The one that is breathing fast is the one that looks completely fine. The other one with the white gash on...

My powder blue tang just died a couple hours ago due to either parasites, bacterial infection or both. He was in my DT so I am going to treat the whole tank with paraguard just in case. It's only a fowlr tank with no invertebrates. Would this be a good medication to use? Also I was going to put...

Hi Everyone, I have been a long time user of this forum and need help identifying and treating this new issue. I have a blue tang that has been doing well for 7 months. I woke up this morning to find that he had a white growth that looks to be hairy/fuzzy right on his mouth. This literally...

Hey guys, my lawnmower blenny started showing signs of what I’m assuming is a bacterial infection a few days ago. His right side started with what seemed like a little “blister”, and after a day or two it got a bit worse it seems and ate away at his right fin. He’s in a 20 long, live rock and...

I recently got a blue tang and it was completely fine yesterday. I woke up this morning and it was dead with these white marks on one side of its body! Is it a bacterial infection? It all happened so fast, and all of my other tank inhabitants are fine. My salinity is 1.025, pH is 8.2, and...

Hello, I got this Midas blenny from petco a couple days ago. He looked sick and I would not usually buy a sick fish but he I felt real bad for him and he was still eating so I figured I’d try to save him. He has mouth fungus. Or something like that. His face literally looks like it’s melting...

Why haven’t anyone company created a adrenaline food or specific dip for fish? To aid in fighting off parasites? I mean it seems like a smart thing to do. If fish had a certain time window to fight off bacterial/ parasites etc they would live.

My Orange Shoulder Tang started acting funny, staying at the bottom of the tank, and his fins started to look chopped up. His face also almost looks skinner or ‘sunken in’ now he has a brown/red spot on his upper body. Is this a bacterial infection? I’ve started dosing Melefix and he seems to be...

My Scopas Tang has had these white spots on his side for around a week. He is eating and acting fine it’s just freaking me out. I can’t really come to a conclusion on what these can be. I had factored out velvet and ich simply due to the fact that the spots haven’t spread throughout his whole...

Looking for help/suggestions… I’m losing my LPS one after another. The losses started 2-3 months ago with a plate coral that came in damaged and an Acan from the same shipment, and the issue has been gradually been getting worse and moving faster ever since. Now I’m losing corals that have...

Hi all, this is my first post here (been waiting to make a build post). I'm looking for some help with a possible diagnosis. My first saltwater tank has been cycled for a little over a month now. Last weekend I added my first two clownfish. They are pretty small but one is bigger than the...

Over the last two weeks I’ve had two fish go on me, the first was my scopas tang. Looked so weak he was laying down all over the tank so I pulled him and put him in QT, however he eventually passed. Now, about a week or so later I find my blonde naso tang looking a bit weak and swimming a bit...

Hello, I'm quite new here. It's been 2 months since I set up the aquarium. I have 3 percula clownfish (Nearly 3-4 cm) and 1 Cleaner Shrimp in 20 gallons tank. One of my percula got a strange white spot. Is it a bitemark from other perculas or any infection? I separated him from the aquarium...

My porcupine pufferfish has a cloudy patch on her right fin and seems to have a bit of a torn tail. I just noticed today after watching her eat. She was breathing a little heavy after feeding but she seems to do that sometimes. I have also only ever seen her puff up on a few occasions but saw...

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...

Hi all, My goni was dying probably due to a faulty bottle of Phytoplankton. I believe I have already stop the dying and it is growing again. But I just notice the edge of the skeleton are turning red/purple-ish. Photo attached below, it was taken this morning so the polyp are retracted, they...

I've rarely had issues getting Moorish Idols to eat so a friend of mine ordered one and is having me QT him. The first week I noticed a few spots so I treated a single dose of Prazipro for 7 days and then did a 30% WC. Following this I've had him in Copper Power at 2.25ppm for about a week now...

Hey everyone, I just lost an orange shoulder tang during its QT due to multiple bacterial infections. At first, its mouth was injured for a few days, then ich started to kick in but I sorted it out with copper. The fish was still active and eating during the time but in the last 48hrs, it showed...

I got this foxface from a lfs the other day and it looked like it was just a laceration on the fish from bumping into rockwork. But over the past few days, it has gotten worse and now looks like a pimple with a hole in the middle of it. I am concerned it is some type of parasite and may infect...

Hi R2R, long time lurker so first post! I have a 40 breeder setup and did a fish less cycle. My water parameter I’ll post below (using Red Sea kit). I have about 40 pounds of live (dry) rock in my tank and after my fishless cycle (Brightwell kit) I added 4 small clownfish at the same time. 2...

Hello. I’ve had Rocket (melanurus wrasse) for over a year now and everything was fine till today. I came home from 4 day camping trip and noticed rocket could barely swim. Upon further inspection his left fin is 80% missing and the remainder of it is turning red. The right fin is still mostly...

Hey everyone, Overnight my juvenile blue tang seems to have either gotten a nasty infection/disease of some sort, or injured himself (or both). I did notice slight discoloration and redness near the eye last night but nothing like this. The outside of the eye seems to have peeled upwards...

My dad has this starfish in his tank for about 4 months now, but lately when I’ve visited one of the legs of the starfish seems to be deteriorating. On my most recent visit, the leg that was originally effected looks much shorter and now the same thing is happening to another leg. My dad had...

Wassup Reefers, Need some help with a disease ID. I got a citron clown goby for my 40cube a few weeks ago. A handful of days after I introduced him to the reef appetite and behavior seemed normal but I noticed a few white specks on just his fins. The next day his fins were clean/clear of specks...