#fishmedic

I recently got this firefish on march 24th. He is currently in my quarantine tank, observation only so no medicines or treatments. The first week he was really shy and then from week 1-2ish he would come out, but recently it seems like he found a new hiding spot, which is the corner of the tank...

I woke up today and noticed my clownfish acting strange. I have had this particular clown for many years now and it was once part of a mated pair up until about a year ago. Tank has not had any additions for months only coral that was dipped and is living in my sump at the moment. Yesterday...

Hello all, After deciding to stick with my tank size after some back issues and finding ways to make it easier, it seems life has thrown another obstacle in the hobby for me to tackle. Over the past two weeks I have suddenly noticed some fish were not well, but it has weirdly only affected a...

I just noticed this today and my coral beauty had been acting fine the day before. Can anyone identify what may have happened? I have used vodka to euthanize due to the severity and inability to swim. No signs of aggression in the tank other than the other fish picking on it when it was injured

This is my fault, I took away the mirror because I didn’t see any aggression for the month I’ve added the yellow Coris. I have a Melanurus and a blue star leopard, and I never seen either go for it or any other fish. Earlier today I saw the yellow hiding in this cave but it looked fine just...

Got this Wrasse about 8 days ago. He had the raised scales behind his right eye about the 2nd day into QT. No meds in the tank as there are also coral and inverts in my QT tank. The bumps/raised scales have gotten worse over the last 2 or 3 days. I did a FW dip for about 4 minutes yesterday. No...

Worried about my Two Spot Bristletooth. Just noticed a big white spot on the front of his dorsal, as well as a smaller spec on one of his side, just this two single spots so far. Currently been battling some SCA dino and dosing silicate, dosed lanthanum this week a bit (1ml for 60g mixed in...

Hey all, Just arrived home to find something wrong with my puffers eye. I’m assuming this is an injury but want to be sure that it’s not cloudy eye. (It also appeared to have some sort of mucus string hanging from said spot, not leaking) This just appeared while I was gone for 9-ish hours...

I have a helfrichi firefish I got 2 weeks ago from reefbeauties (came in great and also with carpenter flasher wrasse who was doa on arrival). Worked 24 hour shift and just noticed today is some sort of bacterial infection, but. I have no for sure idea. White spots developed on him and seem to...

I have two juvenile clownfish, about 3–5 cm in size. One of them seems to be suffering from an internal parasite. For the past three days, I've been trying to feed it medicated food (MetroPlex + Focus + Garlic Guard), but the fish refuses to eat it. I've tried a variety of food types frozen...

Hello everyone! I woke up this morning to find my eel in my sump. As I was fishing him out I found that his stomach was missing a chunk of skin. I'm currently working to set up a quarantine tank. Does anyone know what could have caused this, and if he can recover? He's pretty small still at...

Hello everyone, We have a dog face puffer in our warehouse who is partially blind he has trouble eating and only eats if you sit there and basically put it in his mouth and even then he has trouble. Does anyone have any ideas on feeding him? He also won’t eat his clams and his teeth are getting...

Hi all, longtime lurker and first time poster. We returned home from a 3 day vacation yesterday, and one of our clownfish had what looked like a slight mark on her lip. However, upon returning home from work today it looks like what we thought was a small mark has spread. I’ll upload a video...

Hello R2R Community, Recently I brought home a new purple tang. I was under the impression that the LFS ran copper for all their stock and it seems that may not have been the case. Regardless, I also never took full precautions on my end prior to this particular fish, so it is also highly...

I have lost a clown loach recently (symptoms are swimming erratically in circles and rapid breathing - fins are normal and body appears normal). I currently have a sick clown loach with different symptoms - #fishmedic any idea what this is (black spots, ragged fins, eyes clouded, rapid...

My poor lyretail anthias has been bullied by the tank boss "sailfin tang" for simply being a pretty boy. Whats your thoughts on this wound? Is there any steps I should take to make sure it does not get infected? Anything I should watch out for? I have a cleaner wrasse and shrimp in the...

#fishmedic I just noticed this white spot on the top left side of my WTB tang, and I’m freaking out because I somewhat recently treated my whole tank with a 35 day hyposalinity treatment before I moved all my corals and inverts into here, but that’s no longer an option. It doesn’t look like ich...

I’m a little concerned about my Melanurus Wrasse and not sure if this behavior is normal. Tank: 55 gal w/20 gal sump about 5 months old Water: - Nitrites/Ammonia: 0 - Nitrates: 5-10 -Ph: 8-8.15 -Alk: 9-10 I bought my Melanurus Wrasse about 3 months ago. Of that time, I’ve barely seen her; she...

I am posting for help with my Hawaiian cleaner wrasse Obtained 2 months ago from Biota in juvenile coloration (black and purple, no yellow). Has subsequently grown and gained more adult coloration as seen in the photo. Last week (4/8) I noticed he had a huge belly after eating many newly...

Hi Everyone, and thank you in advance for any help. My wife just bought a porcupine puffer yesterday, it is in QT now. I noticed today small white specks on its fins. I haven’t seen any on the body, but it is difficult to be certain. He’s a baby (about 2.5 inches in length), so trying to give...

Just bought a pair of clarkii clowns today, the larger of the two is doing excellent while the smaller is acting odd, no signs of aggression from other tank mates. Came out earlier to him swimming at the top of the tank as shown in video 2, then came out later to check on him, FOUND HIM STUCK TO...

Hey just a quick question I’m treating for what I think is brook clowns are in a different tank now dt is 15 gallons with 5 other fish no wrasse just inverts and other fish no coral I moved the clowns yesterday when I saw they had a white fur on them which looked like brook but they still ate a...

Marine betta has been with me about 2-3 weeks. Currently in copper power QT. I have seen it flash once or twice (over a week ago) and will do prazi after copper. Has only been eating live ghost shrimp and over the past few days has been a bit less shy. I’ve noticed random bites or lunges when...

Please see videos. I’m concerned about his dorsal fin and also one of his side fins (idk the correct name, I apologize). You can see the one on the left of the video is full at the edges, while on the right it seems frayed and thin. He eats normal, but I know he has been stressed after my...

Hello, I have a male Ornate Leopard Wrasse who is currently sick. He occasionally goes belly up, lays on the sandbed, and breathes heavily. This happened two days ago in the morning, went away for 1.5 days, and now is back this morning. After a while, or when I feed, he will pop up like...