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omg i like!

Chaetodon humeralis. the sister species of chaetodon striatus. DD came in 1 that day. i like striatus better.

he's been talking about flukes even before i had my new tank set up. cursing me for months. now finally tio flukes. see lah.

i've heard fuel say the word flukes more time than i've heard my mum call my name since the day i was born. i'm starting to think the flukes in my tank was the result of his incessant talk about flukes. say so much until one day, it really happened. dam curse. really dam curse.

i kena brainwash liao terryz would know hahaha. ok lah. at least flukes easier to treat than velvet. and doesn't kill as fast. and not as serious.

all the flukes....

so many wrasses exhibit this stress colour. roseafascia, female flame, female rhomboid, earlei, lineauts...

save yourself!! i first encountered it today, on the white bar maculosus's eye which i bought. i took it out to do a FW bath but the particular eye fluke did not detach. even after repeated FW baths. so i decided to just leave it be. The eye fluke is different from the ones on the body. the eye fluke is much bigger and is very visible. anyway, the eye fluke did not come out but i noticed small white things at the bottom of the pail. siphoned them out and realised they were the body fluke. so i caught my marginalis, majestic, flame hawk, clowns, and did a FW bath for all. all came back positive for flukes except the clowns. the marginalis and majestic showed the most. about 4 for each fish. however i think 4 is still ok. many threads in RC showed hundreds or thousands of flukes which were dead after FW bath. i guess the flukes were causing the colour fade in the majestic afterall. so now i have probably more flukes in the tank, on those fish i cannot catch. and that single eye fluke on my maculosus. that's enough catching, stressing and cleaning for today. i will dose my tank with praziquantel for the next week to kill all the remaining flukes and eggs. praziquantel kills eggs and is reefsfe (according to fuel and RC). so i will dose my entire tank. last but not least, will pray that this annoying parasite be ridded. chances are, many of us here have flukes already... just don't notice it. i found mine by accident today and would never have guessed had i not been poisoned into thinking my fish had flukes. my tank has less than 10 fish and already i have flukes. imagine those people who stock so much more frequently and don't QT?

After dipping my fish in FW (those i can catch anyways...) this is what i found. the small white oval shaped flatworms are flukes. found them on my fish. they are dead, in a petri dish.

no need to gloat -.- it won't make my fish cure any faster

freaking bad luck. i just did a FW dip on most of my fish and found out they have flukes. apparently it's more common than you think. Those who are reading this, don't laugh. your tank might just as well be infected. Flukes are unseen until you FW dip your fish. they drop off as tiny white flatworms that look like sesame seeds. Very common in wild caught angels, butterflies and wrasses. Symptoms include flicking, scratching and shaking. as well as colour fade occasionally. You might think, aiyah, it's just ich. think again. it could very well be flukes. fuel used to tell me about them all the time but i thought he was just paranoid. I WAS WRONG. I'M A BELIEVER! I'm willing to bet that many of you surfing SRC, reading this, probably have them in your tank. Just not serious enough to cause alarm. Especially those who frequently buy angels, butterflies and wrasses, and do not quarantine. if you see your fish flicking constantly, do not hesitate to do a FW dip. it's a peace of mind

more photos.

usually the black ones with the white stripe. and very small. 1 inch. in fact i think cf has them now,

nope. but i always see them at cf.

not a mccosker wrasse. that's a carpenter's flasher

for photographing purposes only

my pseudocoris bleekeri decided to come out today. it's a very nice fish especially under MH. the blue is really stunning and iridescent. this is the best i can do. posting here since it's considered quite uncommon

oh this is a very beautiful hawkfish. good thing is, it's found nearby in indonesia. bad thing is it's very seldom available. i've only seen this once.

After hiding in the sand for 2 days, look who decided to come out today. i love the dorsal fin. it's pink with a very nice blue line at the part where it meets the body! the body colour of this fish is blueish green. it's a unique colour that looks extremely nice under MH. the blue is iridescent. the first spine of it's dorsal fin is also elongated, like a firefish. very cute

nice!!

WOW the crescent is SO BIG FOR THIS ASFUR! and it stretches towards the forehead too!

yes

look at all the diving pics! the red see an hawaii (oahu) is my fav! http://www.aquatouch.com/expeditions.html