What does this goby have

[JsLevine]

I have had this dimond goby for around 2 years now. I started a new tank 3 months ago that is going well and decided to move him over to the new tank. The tank he was in like I said has been running about 3 months and has an amazingly heavy pod population every inch of glass gets covered if I don’t scrape it away and the goby are prepared foods like a champ. After 1 week in the tank I woke up and found him hiding in a dark corner of the tank breathing heavy. I caught the fish quick and moved him to a qt tank shortly after these pictures the fish passed away. I currently only have a leopard wrasse who was also moved from my old tank and a yellow tang. My other fish have zero symptoms that I can find and as a precaution have been moved to my qt tank to be monitored and medicated as need be.

If it was velvet I would assume the tang would be dead already considering it’s captive bread but maybe that’s a poor assumption.

Is this velvet or just a fungal infection what does everyone think

Thank you in advance

 

[BristleWormHater]

@vetteguy53081 @Jay Hemdal

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have had this dimond goby for around 2 years now. I started a new tank 3 months ago that is going well and decided to move him over to the new tank. The tank he was in like I said has been running about 3 months and has an amazingly heavy pod population every inch of glass gets covered if I don’t scrape it away and the goby are prepared foods like a champ. After 1 week in the tank I woke up and found him hiding in a dark corner of the tank breathing heavy. I caught the fish quick and moved him to a qt tank shortly after these pictures the fish passed away. I currently only have a leopard wrasse who was also moved from my old tank and a yellow tang. My other fish have zero symptoms that I can find and as a precaution have been moved to my qt tank to be monitored and medicated as need be.

If it was velvet I would assume the tang would be dead already considering it’s captive bread but maybe that’s a poor assumption.

Is this velvet or just a fungal infection what does everyone think

Thank you in advance

Ooh, sorry to see and hear. Appears to be a skin reaction with possible mix of bacterial and even mixed in with ich which they rarely get.
Were eyes clear or cloudy and lethargic, making it easy to catch or active?

 

[JsLevine]

Ooh, sorry to see and hear. Appears to be a skin reaction with possible mix of bacterial and even mixed in with ich which they rarely get.
Were eyes clear or cloudy and lethargic, making it easy to catch or active?

The eyes did seem slightly cloudy on the tops I gave it a last ditch effort of a methane blue bath to try to ease what ever was going on and after that bath is when the close up shots had been taken and it only seemed to make the issue worse the fish was breathing heavy and it appeared to have this mucus in it mouth.

I did not see any definitive spots like ich most of what looks like a spot in the pictures was actually more like loose mucus hanging from the fish not a definitive white spot.


Here is another picture showing the wrasse and tang in a qt tank for the time being and I can’t find a spot on any of them

Could fish aggression lead to a goby getting an infection outside of ich and velvet.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

The eyes did seem slightly cloudy on the tops I gave it a last ditch effort of a methane blue bath to try to ease what ever was going on and after that bath is when the close up shots had been taken and it only seemed to make the issue worse the fish was breathing heavy and it appeared to have this mucus in it mouth.

I did not see any definitive spots like ich most of what looks like a spot in the pictures was actually more like loose mucus hanging from the fish not a definitive white spot.


Here is another picture showing the wrasse and tang in a qt tank for the time being and I can’t find a spot on any of them

Could fish aggression lead to a goby getting an infection outside of ich and velvet.

Tough to say what going on here - protozoan diseases almost always show up on all/most fish, although there can be some lag time.

The length of time you’ve had the fish also tends to rule out protozoan disease - but visually, this does look like end stage ich or brooklynella.

 

[vetteguy53081]

The eyes did seem slightly cloudy on the tops I gave it a last ditch effort of a methane blue bath to try to ease what ever was going on and after that bath is when the close up shots had been taken and it only seemed to make the issue worse the fish was breathing heavy and it appeared to have this mucus in it mouth.

I did not see any definitive spots like ich most of what looks like a spot in the pictures was actually more like loose mucus hanging from the fish not a definitive white spot.


Here is another picture showing the wrasse and tang in a qt tank for the time being and I can’t find a spot on any of them

Could fish aggression lead to a goby getting an infection outside of ich and velvet.

Aggression causes stress which can be contributors to disease.
Wrasse seems thin. Are remaining fish eating and breathing normal?
If eating, what foods are you offering and how often are you feeding?
The mucus hanging which is clearer in original pics may indeed be brook, and best treatable with Ruby Rally Pro in lieu of formalin which is not the safest product to work with

 

[JsLevine]

Aggression causes stress which can be contributors to disease.
Wrasse seems thin. Are remaining fish eating and breathing normal?
If eating, what foods are you offering and how often are you feeding?
The mucus hanging which is clearer in original pics may indeed be brook, and best treatable with Ruby Rally Pro in lieu of formalin which is not the safest product to work with

The wrasse is a heathy weight the picture does not show him well was caught while he was at full speed against the glass I feed him a larger verity of foods though and he eats aggressively 24/7 tang eats well also have had no issues with the fish at all outside of this goby in a matter of a days going from heathy to this