Dwarf Lemon peel angel dying?

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My lemon peel angel has had their color fading from yellow to white they are also not eating and aren’t as energetic as usual water parameters are perfect had it for over a month please help
 

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My lemon peel angel has had their color fading from yellow to white they are also not eating and aren’t as energetic as usual water parameters are perfect had it for over a month please help
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Sorry, that angel is seriously ill. Its eyes are cloudy and it is breathing really fast, and cannot get up off the bottom very well. The core issue could be a disease known as velvet, or it could be gill flukes. Given that you've had the fish for some time, I would say it is more likely to be flukes. It is VERY difficult to treat fish with severe fluke infections like this... you can give the fish a 5 minute freshwater dip and the flukes will all fall off, but then, there will be a hole in the fish's skin wherever there was a fluke, and if there are a lot of flukes, the fish will literally bleed out. Still, if you don't do anything, the fish is going to die pretty quickly.

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Sorry, that angel is seriously ill. Its eyes are cloudy and it is breathing really fast, and cannot get up off the bottom very well. The core issue could be a disease known as velvet, or it could be gill flukes. Given that you've had the fish for some time, I would say it is more likely to be flukes. It is VERY difficult to treat fish with severe fluke infections like this... you can give the fish a 5 minute freshwater dip and the flukes will all fall off, but then, there will be a hole in the fish's skin wherever there was a fluke, and if there are a lot of flukes, the fish will literally bleed out. Still, if you don't do anything, the fish is going to die pretty quickly.

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Will it spread to my other fish whatever it is?
 

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Will it spread to my other fish whatever it is?

Yes - but if they don't have severe symptoms, you'll have time to treat them. Did you try the dip?
 

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