Big round white bumps on yellow longnose butterfly

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I have a yellow longnose butterflyfish in my qt since I bought it two weeks ago. First it had fin rot and was not accepting food. Today is the last day of the API Furan treatment. I had also dosed the qt with Paraguard initially. Currently I have it alone in qt with hypo for two weeks.

about a day or two ago I noticed these perfectly round raised white bumps on its head and sides. I couldn’t figure out what these could be. I tried my best to capture them with my phone. Also, the absolute worse thing is that the little guy has not been accepting any food whatsoever. I’ve tried pellets, nori, algae flakes, algae sheets, fresh shrimps, masstick. I’ve hatched brine shrimps also but I they’re probably too small right now. But I did add them to qt. In the photos, the small white particles that you see against the black head of the fish are actually brine shrimp naupli and not icy. The bumps I’m talking about are present near its dorsal fin on the back side on both sides, and also on top of its head. You have to zoom in to see the white bumps. Sorry for the very long post, any help identifying the disease/problem and suggestions to get him to eat would be rally appreciated.

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Hi, welcome to Reef2Reef!

I can see some fin erosion/infection, but I’m not able to make out the white spots.

What is your salinity/specific gravity?
Do you know the ammonia level?
Do you have access to live black worms or tubifex?

Jay
 
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Hi, welcome to Reef2Reef!

I can see some fin erosion/infection, but I’m not able to make out the white spots.

What is your salinity/specific gravity?
Do you know the ammonia level?
Do you have access to live black worms or tubifex?

Jay
Hi, thanks for the reply.
If you zoom in very close on the second image, you’ll see some round white bumps on its both sides, near its dorsal edge, at the level of its pectoral fins.

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SG is 1.009, ammonia was 1 ppm although I had done a 30% water change two days back and another one two days before the last one, where it was in the 0-0.25ppm range. I'll do a 80% wc today to bring the ammonia down.

I haven't had any luck in finding any live black worms or tubifex due to where I'm currently at. I do have access to frozen tubifex and black worm flakes though.
 

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Hi, thanks for the reply.
If you zoom in very close on the second image, you’ll see some round white bumps on its both sides, near its dorsal edge, at the level of its pectoral fins.

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SG is 1.009, ammonia was 1 ppm although I had done a 30% water change two days back and another one two days before the last one, where it was in the 0-0.25ppm range. I'll do a 80% wc today to bring the ammonia down.

I haven't had any luck in finding any live black worms or tubifex due to where I'm currently at. I do have access to frozen tubifex and black worm flakes though.
Live tubifex is what motivates a fish to eat, so frozen won’t work.
I can see one white spot but it isn’t clear enough to diagnose, sometimes you simply can’t visually id things without a skin scrape under a microscope. It is unlikely that the spots are keeping it from eating. More likely that is due to the ammonia and the fin issues, 1 ppm ammonia can be deadly at a pH above 8. See if the water change helps.
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Live tubifex is what motivates a fish to eat, so frozen won’t work.
I can see one white spot but it isn’t clear enough to diagnose, sometimes you simply can’t visually id things without a skin scrape under a microscope. It is unlikely that the spots are keeping it from eating. More likely that is due to the ammonia and the fin issues, 1 ppm ammonia can be deadly at a pH above 8. See if the water change helps.
Jay
The problem is that up until now I had managed to keep ammonia at 0, but even then it was not showing interest in food. Two days back I added some pellets, flakes, masstick in my desperation to get it to eat and forgot to remove them, which must have been the cause of the ammonia spike.

If fin rot is the real culprit, is Furan2 going to help with that? Should I also dose Paraguard and Cupramine along with it? I only have a simple sponge filter (which has been off for the course of Furan treatment) and a large airstone. I also have a 50-watt heater running in the tank.
 

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