Marine Velvet, Ich, Flukes, Brook or other

[Karané]

I have had a case of what I think was brooklynella in the past 5 months. It started with my clownfish and they ended up dying despite our medication.

We got a second batch of fish 4/5 weeks as per recommended by our fish guy, and they ended up dying of the disease too. We weren't able to treat the fish with formaldeheyde since it's illegal in my country, so we tried metro and green malachite. They lost all spots in a month and ended up dying a few weeks after during the night all of a sudden.

We left our main tank fishless for 7 weeks.

My sister decided to buy a Midas Blenny three days ago, and I was scounting for diseases when I noticed a white spot in one of his fins. It looks to me like he caught the disease too.

I thought maybe we ended up diagnosing the fish badly, since we never got to show them to a specialist and maybe this is velvet and not brook.

Can someone help please? I'm desperate, I don't want to lose a fish again.

 

[LAReefer4Life]

It’s really hard to tell by that photo. It looks too large to be velvet. Best practices is to always QT fish prior to placing in your display tank so you can treat accordingly after a few days of observation.

Is he exhibiting any strange behavior such as scratching, flashing, swimming into the power head, etc?

What are your water parameters?

Keep an eye on the fish and possibly post some better quality photos at your earliest convenience.

 

[Karané]

It’s really hard to tell by that photo. It looks too large to be velvet. Best practices is to always QT fish prior to placing in your display tank so you can treat accordingly after a few days of observation.

Is he exhibiting any strange behavior such as scratching, flashing, swimming into the power head, etc?

What are your water parameters?

Keep an eye on the fish and possibly post some better quality photos at your earliest convenience.

Since I never had a Midas Blenny, I'm not quite sure if this is his normal behaviour or not, but he does seem to be darting from one side of the tank to the other and back to his cave. He isn't swimming to the powerhead and he is eating well.

Regarding the water parameters, I'm having them tested in our local fish shop and will reply as soon as I get them

I will post more photos as soon as I get home

 

[SlugSnorter]

I have had a case of what I think was brooklynella in the past 5 months. It started with my clownfish and they ended up dying despite our medication.

We got a second batch of fish 4/5 weeks as per recommended by our fish guy, and they ended up dying of the disease too. We weren't able to treat the fish with formaldeheyde since it's illegal in my country, so we tried metro and green malachite. They lost all spots in a month and ended up dying a few weeks after during the night all of a sudden.

We left our main tank fishless for 7 weeks.

My sister decided to buy a Midas Blenny three days ago, and I was scounting for diseases when I noticed a white spot in one of his fins. It looks to me like he caught the disease too.

I thought maybe we ended up diagnosing the fish badly, since we never got to show them to a specialist and maybe this is velvet and not brook.

Can someone help please? I'm desperate, I don't want to lose a fish again.

what symptoms?

Itching scraping (ich, velvet and brook)

“dust.” This dust may look grey-gold colored if viewed at the right angle and under the right spectrum of light. For this reason, it may be difficult to see velvet on a yellow or light colored fish (look from an angle, not directly from the side). However, sometimes a fish’s body will look “dirty” or show “dark areas” just before velvet appears. (velvet)

gasping (late velvet, Brook)

swimming in the flow (velvet, brook)

not eating (velvet)

Lots of slime (brook)

white mucus, lesions (brook, very late velvet)

chucks of shedding falling off (brook, very late velvet)

heres a page on brook treatment too: https://humble.fish/brooklynella/

 

[SlugSnorter]

Since I never had a Midas Blenny, I'm not quite sure if this is his normal behaviour or not, but he does seem to be darting from one side of the tank to the other and back to his cave. He isn't swimming to the powerhead and he is eating well.

Regarding the water parameters, I'm having them tested in our local fish shop and will reply as soon as I get them

I will post more photos as soon as I get home

you should get test equipment, you need to know your params before you get any fish! and you need to test weekly.

 

[SlugSnorter]

Since I never had a Midas Blenny, I'm not quite sure if this is his normal behaviour or not, but he does seem to be darting from one side of the tank to the other and back to his cave. He isn't swimming to the powerhead and he is eating well.

Regarding the water parameters, I'm having them tested in our local fish shop and will reply as soon as I get them

I will post more photos as soon as I get home

quick, well controlled darting for a moment is fairly normal, if its thrasing around and scaping on stuff its not normal, also, tank size info could help a little

 

[Karané]

you should get test equipment, you need to know your params before you get any fish! and you need to test weekly.

Yes I totally agree, but my mother is a very impulsive buyer and decided to buy fish without my consent. When I got home, the little guy was already in the tank

 

[Karané]

quick, well controlled darting for a moment is fairly normal, if its thrasing around and scaping on stuff its not normal, also, tank size info could help a little

I don't think he's panic swimming, he's pretty quiet in his cave most of the time, just leaves for about a minute and darts back to the cave.

My tank is about 75 litres so I think 20 gallons

 

[SlugSnorter]

I don't think he's panic swimming, he's pretty quiet in his cave most of the time, just leaves when confident.

My tank is about 75 litres so I think 20 gallons

they will do that from any source of it, changing in light, sounds, you walking in front of tank quickly.

 

[Karané]

what symptoms?

Itching scraping (ich, velvet and brook)

“dust.” This dust may look grey-gold colored if viewed at the right angle and under the right spectrum of light. For this reason, it may be difficult to see velvet on a yellow or light colored fish (look from an angle, not directly from the side). However, sometimes a fish’s body will look “dirty” or show “dark areas” just before velvet appears. (velvet)

gasping (late velvet, Brook)

swimming in the flow (velvet, brook)

not eating (velvet)

Lots of slime (brook)

white mucus, lesions (brook, very late velvet)

chucks of shedding falling off (brook, very late velvet)

heres a page on brook treatment too: https://humble.fish/brooklynella/

Right now I think he might be breathing a bit fast, but that also might be because of the new environment. I can't see any symptoms other than that and the white spot in his fin

 

[SlugSnorter]

Right now I think he might be breathing a bit fast, but that also might be because of the new environment. I can't see any symptoms other than that and the white spot in his fin

did you remember to acclimate the fish? if the tank was fallow for 7 weeks there might be ammonia due to bacteria die off, no offence but maybe tell whoever got the fish that impulse buying doesn't really lead to any happy situations in the hobby, and that to avoid fish death its best to be slow and steady

 

[Karané]

did you remember to acclimate the fish? if the tank was fallow for 7 weeks there might be ammonia due to bacteria die off, no offence but maybe tell whoever got the fish that impulse buying doesn't really lead to any happy situations in the hobby, and that to avoid fish death its best to be slow and steady

No offense taken! I agree with you and it's the second time I have asked her to stop, I hope she learns this time around.
The fish was acclimated and I have managed to capture a video that I think is more clear. I will post it below

 

[Karané]

I managed to record a better video of him. I turned off the blue lights, but I couldn't get a better quality than this.
Under white lights, the spot looks pretty much transparent, but when there were no lights on you can see it's more visible.

When I turned of the blue lights, the midas came out of his cave and the spot is perfectly visible in his fin. It's definitely big and white. It also looks a bit "chunky", it has a bit of height

 

[Karané]

I did a FW dip on him, and the spot is still there.

I haven't managed to find any more spots, and this one is really big. Shouldn't ich spread faster?