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The asfur was the last fish added. He was in visual quarantine for 2 weeks before added to display.
He has been in the tank now for a week
I am quite confident I didn't see spots before.
I have quite a few fish in there, no other fish has this symptom which made me thing it was bacterial and not brooklynella. I wanted to make sure. I will move the fish to quarantine and treat with freshwater dip and may observation with methelyne blue.
This species commonly develops flukes, and the timing is right for that issue. Look in the dip with a magnifying glass to see if you can see any dead flukes after the dip.
Jay
So Thursday night, I fished the asfur out and did a freshwater bath and then placed into a quarantine tank with methylene blue. Within a day he is eating again. I fished him out yesterday to do a visual inspection and he looks clean. I moved him back into display and his appetite is back to what it was before. He is now clean of all the cotton looking patche and active as ever. I hope he doesn't have any reoccurring infections. Thanks team!
I hear you. I am not sure if its stale ich or flukes. I looked in the freshwater to see if there was any flukes. It was hard to tell as he took a poop when I placed him in there. Best case scenario, he had flukes and its not stale ich.Good news!
Just be wary - FW dips usually do not cure fish, they just knock the infection back for a time.
Jay
i honestly don't know. I just know the asfur wasn't happy in quarantine and I never have much luck with quarantine for an extended period of time so I felt rushed to get the fish back into the display.So was it Neobenedenia? I love Asfur...Red Sea Angels. One of my favorites...routing for the fish for sure. Good luck!
I hear you. I am not sure if its stale ich or flukes. I looked in the freshwater to see if there was any flukes. It was hard to tell as he took a poop when I placed him in there. Best case scenario, he had flukes and its not stale ich.
Do you have an article that further discusses stale ich? This is the first time I heard of such a thing.