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Hey everyone,
I got a Bristletooth Tomini from a sale at my LFS 3 days ago and he's looking very bad today. He didn't look great when I got him, a bit beat up looking (thought he'd been stung by some coral), but he was grazing and seemed active and alert. He hasn't eaten much since I got him home and this morning when I turned off the pumps to feed he just laid down in place and didn't move.
I'm 99% sure he's not going to make it but I still want to ID whatever is wrong with him. I didn't QT (dumb, I already know) so I want to make sure I know what this is in case it affects my other fish. I'll definitely treat this guy, if possible, but I don't have much hope for him.
It doesn't look like ich to me, nor does it look like velvet or any other common pathogen I'm aware of, but I'm not very experienced in identifying these things. He's got a bunch of flat white spots near his tail and what looks like skin erosion on the bottom of his head. Additionally, his gills seem to be very red.
He's lethargic, laying down and not swimming, and is gasping. I have him in a container with an air stone right now.
Photo album is here and any help is really, really appreciated!
Tank parameters are:
- Salinity: 1.026
- Ammonia: 0 ppm
- Nitrite: 0 ppm
- Nitrate: ~0 ppm
- pH: 7.7-8.1
- Alk: 8.96 dKH
I got a Bristletooth Tomini from a sale at my LFS 3 days ago and he's looking very bad today. He didn't look great when I got him, a bit beat up looking (thought he'd been stung by some coral), but he was grazing and seemed active and alert. He hasn't eaten much since I got him home and this morning when I turned off the pumps to feed he just laid down in place and didn't move.
I'm 99% sure he's not going to make it but I still want to ID whatever is wrong with him. I didn't QT (dumb, I already know) so I want to make sure I know what this is in case it affects my other fish. I'll definitely treat this guy, if possible, but I don't have much hope for him.
It doesn't look like ich to me, nor does it look like velvet or any other common pathogen I'm aware of, but I'm not very experienced in identifying these things. He's got a bunch of flat white spots near his tail and what looks like skin erosion on the bottom of his head. Additionally, his gills seem to be very red.
He's lethargic, laying down and not swimming, and is gasping. I have him in a container with an air stone right now.
Photo album is here and any help is really, really appreciated!
Tank parameters are:
- Salinity: 1.026
- Ammonia: 0 ppm
- Nitrite: 0 ppm
- Nitrate: ~0 ppm
- pH: 7.7-8.1
- Alk: 8.96 dKH