PBT ICH??

[Kidderic]

Hi all....have a PBT been in my DT for about a year no problems... i just noticed white growth on him. I have never had ich before....but have looked at many threads... this actually looks like an un shaved mans face... with the stubble coming from the skin....you can see sort of like small thin white/grey filaments just barely poking out of the skin... he also has white growth on his fins...like little clumps of white not spots...like a mass.... i tried to get pics and will keep trying....could it be lympho whatever it is called? Thanks

 

[Humblefish]

Will need photos to make an accurate diagnosis. Some of what you are describing sounds like ich or velvet; some sounds like Lympho or possibly a bacterial infection.

 

[Kidderic]

 

[Kidderic]

you can see the filament type white crap....any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[Breakthecycle2]

Yeah, thats not ICH....but I don't know what exactly it is.

 

[Empress]

Not lymph either. Looks like some kind of worm but I'm not a expert. Wait for Humble to chime in. Can you see them move?

 

[Deinonych]

Definitely not crypto, doesn't look like lymph. There was a similar thread on that "other" forum a while back about a Powder Brown tang with similar lesions/growths all over it. Don't think a diagnosis was ever confirmed.

 

[Kidderic]

thanks all...they dont appear alive...it is like dead skin or mucus or something....the ones on the body look more like dead skin...the ones on the fins seem to have more mass..if that makes sense

 

[Empress]

How long has it been since you noticed this? Did it happen all at once like overnight? Have you put anything new or wet in the tank recently?

 

[Kidderic]

I just noticed it yesterday.. don't think it has been on him long.. I just replaced a pump and also started using phosbond..

 

[Empress]

An in-tank pump? Was the pump new or was it from another set up? Wonder if something was on that pump?

Or perhaps a bad reaction to the phosbond if it's a skin problem. Could it be the beginning of Brook? I don't think so. It's not ich or velvet.

It almost looks like pods to me but they don't move.

Where's the #Reefsquad??
How many can you count?

 

[Kidderic]

It's a new pump.. could be the phosbond.. I really have no clue

 

[Kidderic]

Yes in tank pump

 

[Kidderic]

 

[Kidderic]

Some more

 

[Humblefish]

Definitely not crypto, doesn't look like lymph. There was a similar thread on that "other" forum a while back about a Powder Brown tang with similar lesions/growths all over it. Don't think a diagnosis was ever confirmed.

+1 It looks similar to this: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2440449

I would love to get a sample of this "mystery disease" to examine under a microscope.

 

[Kidderic]

I hope to get it off him first.. haha

 

[n4s]

I had something that looked similar to this on my foxface. I dosed prazipro thinking it was some kind of worm. They disappeared a day after dosing it. Never came back.

 

[Kidderic]

Good to know..

 

[Empress]

Is he scratching at all or behaving weird? What about his tank mates?